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Aurora’s autonomous trucks are now driving at night. Its next big challenge is rain.
The company has also opened another facility in Phoenix as it scales driverless operations.
Over the next year, Aurora Innovation CEO Chris Urmson wants to “unlock” the Sunbelt of the United States, a southern route where its self-driving trucks will carry goods for companies like Uber Freight and Hirschbach Motor Lines. The company reported Wednesday in its second-quarter letter to shareholders that it now has three self-driving trucks operating commercially between Dallas and Houston and logged more than 20,000 driverless miles by the end of June. “The value is really on longer lengths — so 600 miles is certainly a good range, where that is on the border of what’s possible for people,” Urmson told TechCrunch in a recent interview, adding that ultimately he hopes Aurora trucks are carrying freight from Miami to California.
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