By Nick Carey
作者：尼克·凱里
London, May 7 (Reuters) - British Self-Driving Technology Startup Wayve Said on Tuesday It Has Raised $1.05 Billion in a Funding Round Led by SoftBank Group 9984.t to Accelerate the Development and Launch in Production-Model Vehicles of Its Embodied AI Technology That Can Learn From and Adapt to Human Behavior.
倫敦，5月7日（路透社）— 英國自動駕駛技術初創公司Wayve週二表示，它已在軟銀集團牽頭的一輪融資中籌集了10.5億美元 9984.t 加快其可學習和適應人類行爲的嵌入式人工智能技術的開發和在量產車中推出。
Nvidia Nvda.o Also Contributed in the Series C Funding Round as a New Investor, as Did Existing Investor Microsoft Msft.o.
英偉達 nvda.o 與現有投資者微軟一樣，也作爲新投資者參與了C輪融資 msft.o。
The Latest Funding Brings Wayve's Total Funds Raised to Just Over $1.3 Billion and Marks the Largest Investment yet in a British Startup Focused on Artificial-Intelligence Technology.
最新融資使Wayve籌集的資金總額略高於13億美元，這是迄今爲止對一家專注於人工智能技術的英國初創公司的最大一筆投資。
In a Statement, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Hailed the Funding Round as "a Testament to Our Leadership in This
英國首相里希·蘇納克在一份聲明中稱讚本輪融資 “證明了我們在這方面的領導地位”
Industry, and That Our Plan for the (UK) Economy Is Working."
工業，而且我們的（英國）經濟計劃正在奏效。”
Founded in 2017, Wayve's Autonomous Driving Technology Uses AI That the Startup Says Will Enable Vehicles to "Navigate Situations That Do Not Follow Strict Patterns or Rules, Such as Unexpected Actions by Drivers, Pedestrians, or Environmental Elements."
Wayve的自動駕駛技術成立於2017年，使用人工智能，這家初創公司稱這將使車輛 “駕馭不遵循嚴格模式或規則的情況，例如駕駛員、行人的意外行爲或環境因素”。
"This Will Enable Automakers and Fleets to Accelerate Their Transition From Assisted to Autonomous Driving," Wayve CEO Alex Kendall Told Reuters.
Wayve首席執行官亞歷克斯·肯德爾告訴路透社：“這將使汽車製造商和車隊能夠加快從輔助駕駛到自動駕駛的過渡。”
The Startup's Technology Is Currently Integrated Into Six Different Vehicle Platforms Including Electric Vehicles Like the Jaguar I-Pace and Ford Mustang Mache as Part of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (Adas), Kendall Said. as the Self-Driving Technology Advances, Wayve's AI Will Be Upgraded Using Over-the-Air Software Updates.
肯德爾說，這家初創公司的技術目前已集成到六個不同的汽車平台中，包括捷豹I-Pace和福特野馬馬奇等電動汽車，作爲高級駕駛輔助系統（Adas）的一部分。隨着自動駕駛技術的進步，Wayve的人工智能將使用空中軟件更新進行升級。
The Problem Faced by Robotaxi Startups and Other Self-Driving Companies Is That Developing Vehicles That Can Truly Drive Themselves Has Proven More Difficult Than Originally Imagined.
Robotaxi初創公司和其他自動駕駛公司面臨的問題是，事實證明，開發能夠真正自行駕駛的車輛比最初想象的要困難得多。
Among the Main Challenges Is That Self-Driving Software Systems Have Simply Lacked Humans' Ability to Predict and Assess Risk Quickly, Especially When Encountering Unexpected Incidents or "Edge Cases."
主要挑戰之一是，自動駕駛軟件系統根本缺乏人類快速預測和評估風險的能力，尤其是在遇到意外事件或”邊緣保護殼。”
As the Scale of That Challenge Has Become Clear, Major Investments in Autonomous Startups Like Wayve Are Increasingly Rare.
隨着這一挑戰的規模變得明顯，對像Wayve這樣的自主創業公司的重大投資越來越罕見。
Wayve President Erez Dagan Told Reuters the Company's Technology Is "Built to Generalize Its Driving Knowledge From One Scenario to Another... Because It's Nearly Impossible to Imagine Every Situation That a Self-Driving Car Needs to Reliably Handle."
Wayve總裁埃雷茲·達根告訴路透社，該公司的技術 “旨在將其駕駛知識從一種情景推廣到另一種情景...因爲幾乎不可能想象自動駕駛汽車需要可靠處理的每種情況。”
"by Leveraging the Raw Power of AI, We Can Build an Embodied AI System That's Learned From Real-World and Synthetic Data How to Handle Edge Cases at a Rate That Surpasses Human Programming," He Added.
他補充說：“通過利用人工智能的原始力量，我們可以構建一個具體的人工智能系統，該系統從現實世界和合成數據中學習如何以超過人類編程的速度處理邊緣案例。”
(Reporting by Nick Carey in London
Editing by Matthew Lewis)
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