Aurora Expands Self-driving Trucks Route To El Paso

Aurora has added a 600-mile driverless way from Fort Worth to El Paso, nan autonomous conveyance exertion company’s 2nd for its self-driving trucks.

The institution announced nan description connected Tuesday alongside its third-quarter net report. Aurora besides said it has completed much than 100,000 driverless miles connected nationalist roads pinch 5 self-driving trucks, a milestone for nan institution that launched its commercialized service successful May. The company’s adjacent pre-stated extremity is to grow to Phoenix by nan extremity of nan year.

Aurora’s first commercialized work began pinch a Dallas-to-Houston way pinch motorboat customers Hirschbach Motor Lines and Uber Freight. At nan time, nan institution said it planned to build up to “tens of thousands of self-driving trucks” and grow to El Paso and Phoenix by nan extremity of 2025. 

The Fort Worth-to-El Paso way is agelong capable to go compelling to carriers, according to Aurora, which cites unit challenges and nan trouble of completing a 10-hour haul successful a azygous day. Customers connected nan El Paso way see Hirschbach Motor Lines arsenic good arsenic Russell Transport.

Aurora besides shared specifications connected next-generation hardware, which is made by Fabrinet and is being integrated pinch nan Volvo VNL Autonomous trucks. It says nan hardware is much durable and has amended performance, yet it is half nan wide cost. The company’s caller procreation of lidar detects objects 1,000 meters away, which is doubly nan region of its existent generation. Aurora besides has improved its sensor cleaning, which it says will run much reliably successful harsh upwind conditions.

“The integration of Aurora’s next-generation hardware pinch nan Volvo VNL Autonomous connected nan aviator statement astatine our New River Valley installation marks an industry-first business and highlights nan meaningful advancement we are making together,” said Nils Jaeger, President of Volvo Autonomous Solutions. “By manufacturing trucks purpose-built for autonomy, we’re moving beyond prototypes and creating scalable solutions that are fresh to meet nan demands of a modern proviso chain.”

This next-generation hardware will travel up of a suite of higher measurement hardware that is being jointly developed pinch Aumovio, formerly Continental, which is slated for accumulation successful 2027.