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2017考研英语拓展阅读：优步砸5亿美元打造自有地图系统
NEW YORK—Ride-hailing service Uber will invest $500 million in an ambitious global mapping project to wean itself off dependence on Google Maps and pave the way for driverless cars, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
纽约报道——《金融时报》周日报道，打车服务软件优步将斥资5亿美元投资一项大型全球地图工程，以便让自身摆脱对谷歌地图的依赖并探索无人驾驶车技术。
The San Francisco-based company is ramping up spending in new technologies such as mapping and driverless cars following new investments in the company earlier this year, the report said.
报道称，在今年早些时候的最新投资之后，这家位于旧金山的公司正在加紧投资地图业务和无人驾驶车这样的新技术。
An Uber spokeswoman declined to comment on the report.
一位优步发言人拒绝就此事发表评论。
Last week, Uber executive Brian McClendon, who was formerly the head of Google Maps, said the company was "doubling down" its investments in mapping.
上周，前谷歌地图主管、现任优步主管布莱恩·麦克兰登说，该公司已经在地图业务上加倍投资了。
It put mapping cars on the road in the United States last year and was sending them into Mexico this summer, he said in a statement posted on Uber’s website.
他在优步官网上的一份声明中说，去年优步在美国的大街上投放了地图测绘车，今年夏天该公司将在墨西哥测绘地图。