Aurora seems to be flying under the radar, this is the first I've heard of them. They seem to be actually deploying trucks, and not just smoke and mirrors.
Do these trucks actually drive themselves into a warehouse, and back into an empty spot? Can they actually navigate cities? Or only on the interstates? What kind of loads are they carrying? Can they navigate mountain passes? How much of the entire trip is actually automated? They never answer any of these questions, and make it sound like they can drive anywhere, any time. But it seems to me more like they are on predefined routes, limited to certain destinations. Maybe even someone picks up the truck at an off ramp and drives it into the city. That's not a bad thing, but they are so sketchy the way they don't give any details. It makes it hard for me to believe half this stuff.
> Can they actually navigate cities? Or only on the interstates? What kind of loads are they carrying? Can they navigate mountain passes? How much of the entire trip is actually automated? They never answer any of these questions, and make it sound like they can drive anywhere, any time.
See Waymo. Answering these questions will make the investors run away.
Basically, a highway is the best place for selfdriving cars. Cities are difficult even for selfdriving cars (Waymo).
Due to federal safety regulations. I wonder how much safer this is?
> Revenue is projected to continue as the company adds more trucks and driverless routes to its network. Today, the company has 30 trucks in the fleet, 10 of which are operating driverlessly. That fleet is expected to grow to more than 200 trucks by the end of the year. Urmson said the company’s trucks have racked up 250,000 driverless miles as of January 2026 with a perfect safety record.
> In the second quarter, Aurora plans to deploy a fleet of driverless International Motors LT trucks, which will not have a human observer on board. Aurora’s driverless operations that use Paccar trucks currently have a human safety observer in the cab as requested by the truck manufacturer.
I don't know that there's enough data here to say that their current safety record justifies the claims just yet. If it's not safer than overworking a regular driver then the headline claim is just regulation arbitrage.
Imagine Tesla showed off a semi almost 10 years ago and they have some capacity of self driving. They could've done this years ago if it wasn't a made up timeline. Good work to these people. I don't know how they're spending that much money per year, but the hardest part is starting and they've started. High hopes
It’s a bit unclear what they’re actually doing. Since they need to have safety drivers for now, it sounds like they can’t actually do this nonstop yet and they have only “validated the route?” Or are regulations more relaxed for safety drivers?
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[ 5.7 ms ] story [ 30.6 ms ] threadSee Waymo. Answering these questions will make the investors run away.
Basically, a highway is the best place for selfdriving cars. Cities are difficult even for selfdriving cars (Waymo).
> Revenue is projected to continue as the company adds more trucks and driverless routes to its network. Today, the company has 30 trucks in the fleet, 10 of which are operating driverlessly. That fleet is expected to grow to more than 200 trucks by the end of the year. Urmson said the company’s trucks have racked up 250,000 driverless miles as of January 2026 with a perfect safety record.
> In the second quarter, Aurora plans to deploy a fleet of driverless International Motors LT trucks, which will not have a human observer on board. Aurora’s driverless operations that use Paccar trucks currently have a human safety observer in the cab as requested by the truck manufacturer.
I don't know that there's enough data here to say that their current safety record justifies the claims just yet. If it's not safer than overworking a regular driver then the headline claim is just regulation arbitrage.