不睬蘋果谷歌 豐田選用福特車載智能技術
Toyota has chosen to use a technology originally developed by rival Ford to connect smartphone apps to its cars’ dashboards, snubbing Apple’s CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto in the latest sign of tension between the automotive industry and Silicon Valley.
豐田(Toyota)選擇使用一種最初由對手福特(Ford)開發的技術，將智能手機應用與其汽車的儀表盤相連，而沒有采用蘋果(Apple)的CarPlay和谷歌(Google)的Android Auto。這是突顯汽車業和硅谷之間關係緊張的最新跡象。
In a related announcement on the eve of the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Ford said it would offer both CarPlay and Android Auto as standard in its 2017 models while maintaining its own AppLink software.
在一年一度的拉斯維加斯消費電子展(Consumer Electronics Show)開幕前夕公佈的一份相關聲明中，福特表示將在其2017款車型中提供CarPlay和Android Auto作爲標準配置，同時保留其AppLink軟件。
So-called infotainment systems that allow music or navigation apps from a smartphone to be displayed on the dashboard have become the site for an early turf war between traditional carmakers and Silicon Valley groups.
能讓智能手機的音樂或導航應用顯示在儀表盤上的所謂信息娛樂系統，已成爲傳統汽車製造商和硅谷集團之間早期地盤戰的一大戰場。
Car companies have been reluctant to hand over control of the in-car experience to software makers such as Apple and Google for fear of losing a key point of competitive differentiation.
由於擔心在競爭差異化上失去關鍵的一分，汽車企業始終不願將車內體驗的控制權拱手交給蘋果和谷歌等軟件提供商。
However, Ford’s adoption of CarPlay and Android Auto leaves Toyota as the main holdout against Apple and Google’s encroachment.
然而，福特對CarPlay和Android Auto的接納，令豐田成爲對抗蘋果和谷歌入侵的主要抵抗者。
The two smartphone platform leaders have been building simpler ways to connect their devices to cars. CarPlay and Android Auto both provide features such as voice control, driving directions and music in a way that their developers say is safer and easier to use than the interfaces created by carmakers.
這兩家智能手機平臺的領導者一直在打造將其設備與汽車相連的更簡單方式。CarPlay和Android Auto都提供語音控制、行車導航和音樂等功能，開發人員表示這些功能比汽車製造商提供的界面更安全和易於使用。
Ford is hedging its bets after releasing its rival technology, SmartDeviceLink , as open-source software three years ago. Toyota is the first carmaker to adopt SDL, while PSA Peugeot Citro渀, Honda, Subaru and Mazda say they are “investigating” whether to adopt the standard.
福特正在兩邊同時押注。此前，該公司曾在三年前發佈競爭的技術、開放源代碼軟件SmartDeviceLink(SDL)。豐田是採用SDL技術的首家汽車製造商，而標緻雪鐵龍(PSA Peugeot Citro渀)、本田(Honda)、斯巴魯(Subaru)和馬自達(Mazda)則表示正在“調查”是否採用這一技術標準。
Ford said that continuing to offer AppLink, its incarnation of SDL, at the same time as CarPlay and Android Auto would provide choice to customers while maintaining flexibility and opportunities for differentiation for the company, especially in China, where Google services are blocked.
福特表示，在提供CarPlay和Android Auto的同時繼續提供其SDL技術的衍生版AppLink，會在爲客戶提供選擇的同時，保留該公司的靈活性和差異化機遇——尤其是在谷歌服務被屏蔽的中國。
Toyota said that while it continued to evaluate app connectivity services, it had “no specific plan” to build Apple or Google’s software into its vehicles.
豐田表示，儘管該公司在繼續評估應用連接服務，但該公司“沒有具體計劃”將蘋果或谷歌軟件集成到自己的車型中。
