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Pittsburgh-based autonomous trucking company running driverless Class 8 freight operations in Texas and across Sun Belt routes.
FMCSA granted Aurora and Kodiak a five-year exemption that lets driverless trucks use cab-mounted beacons in place of warning triangles. Federal rules give a human driver 10 minutes after a breakdown to place triangles. An empty cab cannot do that.
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Aurora and other driverless truck operators won a five-year U.S. exemption to use cab-mounted beacons in place of driver-placed warning devices. The term is long enough to plan driverless freight around, though the beacons' safety on the road is still unproven.
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Volvo Autonomous Solutions and Waabi are hauling Warp customer freight on the Dallas-Houston corridor with an observer in the driver's seat. The measure now is whether the truck keeps to the pickup and delivery schedules of a shared-load network.
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Tesla opened its first dedicated Semi factory in Sparks, Nevada, built to make 50,000 trucks a year. It has set no date for reaching that rate, so fleets and investors are working from a capacity target until the trucks ship.
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Aurora runs 20 driverless trucks today and wants 200 by December, but covering last year's $800 million loss with revenue alone would take closer to 2,000 of them at full utilisation.
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Aurora and Kodiak can now test autonomous trucks in their home state, but the April 28 rule change behind the permits is being challenged by Teamsters California in Alameda Superior Court.
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Aurora and Kodiak can now run supervised autonomous trucks on California roads. Two consecutive 500,000-mile gates mean the safety operator stays in the cab for a long time.
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Mythos AI's towboat advisor and Aurora's driverless trucks are not rival technologies so much as rival evidentiary standards. Only one of them has a published number, and it is not a savings figure.
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