Aurora Readies Customers for Driverless Operations
September 05 2024 - 6:00PM
Business Wire
Company hosts Partner Summit, launches Partner
Success Program, and announces Phoenix route expansion
Aurora Innovation, Inc. (NASDAQ: AUR) is hosting a two-day
Partner Summit where company leaders will share exciting updates,
including the introduction of its Partner Success Program and the
planned route expansion between El Paso, Texas, and Phoenix,
Arizona.
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Aurora has hauled over 7,000 loads for
pilot customers across nearly two million commercial miles to date.
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“We strongly believe that engaging key partners – the people who
will regularly interact with the Aurora Driver – is critical to the
success of our driverless commercial product," said Ossa Fisher,
president of Aurora. “Our Partner Summit allows us to showcase the
capabilities and competence of the Aurora Driver and build trust
with our stakeholders that we’re on the right path to safely deploy
driverless trucks.”
Aurora Partner Summit
The Aurora Partner Summit brings together over 20 carriers as
well as industry safety experts, regulators, first responders, and
law enforcement from the national, state, and local level for
collaborative conversations on a wide range of industry topics.
Nat Beuse, Aurora’s Chief Safety Officer, will outline the
company’s approach to evaluating the Aurora Driver’s readiness for
driverless operations between Dallas and Houston through the
closure of its Safety Case. Additionally, law enforcement
professionals and first responders will share their experiences
working with Aurora and how they are preparing for driverless
trucks in Texas.
Partner Success Program
Aurora is launching an industry-first Partner Success Program,
which puts customers’ drivers and executives in the cab of Aurora
Driver-powered trucks to evaluate autonomy performance before
driverless operations. To help validate the program, Aurora
enlisted J.J. Keller, a trusted source in safety and regulatory
compliance, to take a ride and provide feedback on the experience.
The program is slated to begin in Q4 2024.
Phoenix Route Expansion
As part of the company’s effort to unlock value for carriers,
Aurora plans to extend its Fort Worth to El Paso lane by opening
operations to Phoenix. The company expects to begin commercial
pilots for customers between Fort Worth and Phoenix in the first
half of 2025 with the intent to go driverless on that route later
in the year. The 1,000-mile passage takes over 15 hours to
complete, making it particularly compelling for autonomy.
Aurora has hauled over 7,000 loads for pilot customers across
nearly two million commercial miles to date. For more information,
visit aurora.tech.
About Aurora
Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR) is delivering the benefits of self-driving
technology safely, quickly, and broadly to make transportation
safer, increasingly accessible, and more reliable and efficient
than ever before. The Aurora Driver is a self-driving system
designed to operate multiple vehicle types, from freight-hauling
trucks to ride-hailing passenger vehicles, and underpins Aurora’s
driver-as-a-service products for trucking and ride-hailing. Aurora
is working with industry leaders across the transportation
ecosystem, including Continental, FedEx, Hirschbach, PACCAR, Ryder,
Schneider, Toyota, Uber, Uber Freight, Volvo Trucks, Volvo
Autonomous Solutions, and Werner. To learn more, visit
aurora.tech.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements as that
term is defined in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and
Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such statements
include, but are not limited to, the Partner Success Program,
Aurora’s planned lane expansion and launch of commercial pilots on
such expanded lane and on the timelines provided or at all. These
statements are based on management’s current assumptions and are
neither promises nor guarantees, but involve known and unknown
risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause our
actual results, performance or achievements to be materially
different from any future results, performance or achievements
expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Information
regarding the foregoing and additional risks are described in the
“Risk Factors” section of Aurora’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed
with the SEC on February 15, 2024, as amended by Aurora’s Form
10-K/A filed with the SEC on May 24, 2024, and other filings that
Aurora makes with the SEC from time to time. All forward-looking
statements reflect Aurora’s beliefs and assumptions only as of the
date of this press release. Aurora undertakes no obligation to
update forward-looking statements to reflect future events or
circumstances.
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