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According to AutoNews.com, Toyota is going to invest around $500 million in Uber Technologies Inc. to combine research in developing driverless vehicles.
据“AutoNews.com”报道，丰田将向优步科技公司投资大约五亿美元，来共同研发无人驾驶机动车6yMk*v1GiX;Mc5O#i。
Carmakers, tech companies and other service providers have started to partner on self-driving projects over the past two years, due to the difficulty and high cost of developing the technology alone.
由于难度和单独开发这一技术的高成本，在过去两年里，汽车制造商、科技公司和其他服务提供商开始在自动驾驶项目上合作-eBOz)7RJ_O.u5|V^L。

Uber is going to combine its autonomous driving system with Toyota's Guardian system, which is an automated system that offers safety features but does not allow a vehicle to drive completely autonomously.
优步将把其自动驾驶系统与丰田的“Guardian”系统结合起来，它是一个提供安全性能，但又不让机动车完全自动驾驶的自动化系统WQndpvWpJ^1@i_o,pP。

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词语解释

1.combine v. （使）结合，组合，联合，混合

例句：Their system seems to combine the two ideals of strong government and proportional representation.
他们的体制似乎是强有力的政府和比例代表制的完美结合R~nVvm=_NR^Xu。

2.due to 由于；因为

例句：Due to his wife's illness, he returned to the State Department as special adviser to the President.
由于妻子生病，他回到了国务院，出任总统的特别顾问w_3IsMKbEX+;P。