Aurora Innovation

10/16/2026

Are our trucks marked to show they're driverless?

Nat Beuse, Aurora's Chief Safety Officer, answers in our latest video.

The side of the cab shows the owner, truck ID, and USDOT number, just like any other commercial truck.What sets it apart is the sensors mounted on the front, roof, and sides of the cab. That's how the truck sees, and that's how you'll spot it.
When the truck stops on the shoulder, the side pods pulse high-visibility amber so oncoming drivers can see it well in advance.

The Aurora Driver detects vehicles, emergency responders, and roadway hazards, and it follows the same rules of the road as every other truck.

Now you know what to look for.

10/15/2026

Aurora Driver 2 is on TIME's Best Inventions of 2026 list.

Our second-generation self-driving system launched in July and has hauled customer freight on public roads with no one behind the wheel since. Our trucks have covered more than 500,000 miles that way since commercial launch.

Read TIME's write-up: https://bit.ly/3W84tX6

10/09/2026

Close one eye and try to judge how far away the car ahead is. You can see it, but you lose depth.

A standard camera does the same thing—it sees the world in 2D.That's why the Aurora Driver doesn't rely on cameras alone. It combines lidar, radar, and cameras.
Lidar fires lasers to measure the exact distance to everything around the truck, day or night. FirstLight, our proprietary lidar, can see more than 1,000 meters down the road.

Watch one of our Aurora engineers explain the difference lidar makes. His team designs the technology our trucks use to see.

10/08/2026

What happens when a car merges onto the highway next to a driverless truck?

The Aurora Driver detects the car on the frontage road, well before it reaches the on-ramp. The moment the car moves toward the highway, the truck begins a gentle acceleration, opening a full truck length of space so the driver can merge without stress.

Watch the speedometer to see it happen.

09/29/2026

Real progress happens little by little, and then all at once. After years of building, Aurora has reached the inflection point to scale autonomous trucking.

09/23/2026

09/22/2026

“It’s using lasers, radar, and cameras to look all around it and see the other cars, see the other trucks on the road, and figure out how to drive safely,” said Chris Urmson, Aurora founder and CEO. He talked with CNBC’s Phil LeBeau for more than three hours as they rode in the cab of an autonomous Aurora truck.

Aurora's founder and CEO told CNBC the company is targeting positive free cash flow by 2028, driven by a substantial increase in the number autonomous trucks.

09/21/2026

“How does a driverless truck stop for fuel?"

It's one of the most common questions we get, and CNBC's Phil LeBeau asked it live from inside one of our driverless trucks today on a commercial run to Dallas.

The short answer: we're piloting a process with truck stops on our routes where we'll call ahead so an attendant is ready to fuel it up and send it on its way. Aurora CEO Chris Urmson joined him to talk through what comes next as we scale. Watch the full conversation here.

CNBC’s Phil LeBeau and Aurora CEO Chris Urmson join 'Squawk on the ...

09/21/2026

It's been an exciting day! CNBC's Phil LeBeau caught a ride with Chris Urmson from Houston→Dallas today in an Aurora Driver truck — no one behind the wheel.