Baidu Inc announced a new project - Apollo - to open up its autonomous driving platform to its partners, a move to promote the development of self-driving technology.
近日，百度公司宣布了一项名为阿波罗的新计划，旨在向其合作伙伴开放自动驾驶平台，此举是为了促进自动驾驶技术的发展。
It plans to introduce fully autonomous driving capacities on highways and urban roads by 2020, the company said.百度称，该公司计划于2020年前在高速公路和城市道路上引入全自动驾驶能力。By opening up the platform, the company aims to build a collaborative ecosystem, utilizing its strengths in artificial intelligence technology to work together with other companies to accelerate the popularization of autonomous driving technology.通过开放这一平台，百度计划建立一个协作生态系统，利用自身在人工智能技术方面的优势与其他公司合作，加速推进自动驾驶技术的普及。It said the Apollo project will provide a complete hardware and software service solution, which includes a vehicle platform, hardware platform, software platform and cloud data services.
该公司表示，阿波罗计划将提供完整的软硬件服务解决方案，包括车辆平台、硬件平台、软件平台和云端数据服务。Baidu will also open the source code and capabilities in the fields of obstacle perception, trajectory planning, vehicle control, vehicle operating systems, and provide a complete set of testing tools.百度还将开放障碍感知、路径规划、车辆控制、车载操作系统等领域的源代码及能力，并提供整套测试工具。"AI has great potential to drive social development, and one of AI's biggest opportunities is intelligent vehicles," said Lu Qi, Baidu's president and chief operating officer.百度集团总裁、首席运营官陆奇表示：“人工智能有很大潜力来推动社会发展，而人工智能最大的机会就是智能汽车。”