Aurora launches commercial self-driving truck service in Texas

Auronian Aurora Innovation Technology Technology says she has successfully launched a truck service for a solo drive in Texas, making it the first company that has arranged trucks on public roads on public roads without drivers, heavy trucks for commercial use

Starting comes just when Aurora reaches its deadline: in October, the company delayed his planned debut 2024 by April 2025. The debut also comes five months after the Kodiak Robotics rival delivered its first autonomous trucks a commercial customer for driver-free operations in the off-road environment.

Aurora says that this week he started taking a burden between Dallas and Houston with his customers who started Hirschbach Motor Lines and Uber Freight, and that he had finished 1200 miles without a driver so far. The company is planning to expand to El Paso and Phoenix by the end of 2025.

Techcrunch has reached for more launch details, such as how much Aurora vehicle is allocated and whether the system is required to implement the pullever maneuver or the necessary remote human help.

The commercial launch of Aurora comes in challenging time. Long -term trucks self -control have long set the need for their technology due to the lack of labor in the transportation of a long relay and the expected growth of the transport ship. Trump’s tariffs changed the odds, at least in the short term. According to April reports of commercial vehicle analysis ACT researchThe burden is expected to reduce the US in this year that the amounts and consumption of consumption.

Aurora will report their results in the first quarter next week, and that will be when he will share that he expects the current trade war to influence his future job. Techcrunch reached out to find out more about Tariffs affect Aurora’s job.

For the time being, Aurora is likely to focus on continuing to prove his safety case without a driver and cooperation with state and federal legislators on adopting favorable policies to help spread.

At the beginning of 2025, Aurora brought a suit Against federal security regulators after the court rejected his request to be exempt from a security request that includes putting a triangle of warning on the road when the truck must withdraw on the highway – something that is difficult to do when there is no driver in the vehicle. In order to remain in accordance with this rule and still implement a completely driver without a driver, Aurora probably has its cars taken by a car to its trucks whenever they are in operation.