Aurora Innovation develops self-driving technology, with its main product, the Aurora Driver, designed to be integrated into various vehicles for autonomous transportation of people and goods. The company collaborates with logistics providers and vehicle manufacturers to enhance safety and efficiency in transportation. Aurora's unique sensor technology, including FirstLight Lidar, sets it apart from competitors, while its business model focuses on licensing the Aurora Driver as a service. The goal of Aurora is to make transportation safer and more accessible for everyone.

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Aurora Innovation, the self-driving technology company, known for its cutting-edge LiDAR technology, recently opened a state-of-the-art facility on the Montana State University Innovation Campus.

Aurora Comes to Bozeman with Self-Driving Tech

Aurora Innovation, Inc. (NASDAQ: AUR), a leader in autonomous trucking technology, today announced the opening of its new 78,000 square-foot office and testing facility in Bozeman, Montana.

Aurora Opens Advanced Lidar Research and Testing Facility in Bozeman, Montana

Additionally, Nvidia has partnered with Aurora Innovation (NASDAQ:AUR) and Continental AG (OTC:CTTAF) to develop driverless trucks using the next-gen DRIVE Thor system.

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Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are emerging as a use case for artificial intelligence, with Nvidia announcing partnerships with carmakers to develop self-driving technology using its hardware and software platform. “The AV revolution has arrived after so many years, with Waymo’s success and Tesla’s success,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during a keynote speech at CES 2025 in Las Vegas Monday (Jan. 6). Nvidia and Uber announced in a Monday press release that they will jointly develop AI-powered self-driving technology. Uber will use data from millions of trips taken in its vehicles and pair it with Nvidia’s new generative world foundation model, Cosmos. This enables Uber’s AI systems to train in virtual-world settings

Nvidia Ai To Boost Development Of Autonomous Vehicle Tech

Aurora Innovation surged on Tuesday after it announced a long-term strategic partnership with Continental and Nvidia to deploy driverless trucks at scale.

Aurora Innovation surges on partnership with Continental, Nvidia

At CES, Aurora, Continental and NVIDIA announced a long-term strategic partnership to deploy driverless trucks at scale, powered by the next-generation NVIDIA DRIVE Thor SoC. NVIDIA DRIVE Thor and DriveOS will be integrated into the Aurora Driver, an SAE level 4 autonomous driving system that Continental plans to mass-manufacture in 2027.

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WASHINGTON - Aurora Innovation has filed suit against the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) claiming the agency "arbitrarily" rejected the industry's idea for an alternative solution for modern roadside warning devices.

Aurora files suit against USDOT over rejection of cab-mounted warning beacons

The autonomous truck battle: Roadside cab-mounted beacons versus triangles(Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)The question of roadside warning devices adds a triangle-shaped wrinkle to autonomous truck makers’ plans after the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration recently ruled that Aurora and Waymo did not provide enough data backing their request to ditch the traditional triangular road devices for cab-mounted warning beacons. Aurora and Waymo filed the petition in 2023 seeking a five-year exemption from the required placement of warning devices around stopped commercial motor vehicles (CMVs). Level 4 automated driving systems (ADS) have a unique issue if a roadside event occurs – namely that there would not be a person available to leave the vehicle and place warning devices, which can come in the form of fusees, liquid-burning flares or three bidirectional reflective triangles. For the FMCSA, one of the reasons behind the denial is that the cab-mounted warning beacons are only at the front of the truck, while the flares, fusees or reflective triangles are behind the trailer. In layman’s terms, the concern is that it’s harder to see. FMCSA Deputy Administrator Vinn White said in the denial notice: “One distinction between … warning triangles and the proposed beacons is that warning triangles are placed at the rear of a stopped CMV (in addition to the front), while the proposed beacons are located only at the front of the cab — raising the possibility that drivers see the rear of a stopped CMV before they see the beacons. While applicants contend that the beacons are visible from behind the vehicle, the evidence was inconclusive.”The same notice stated that Waymo commissioned a study to evaluate whether drivers could detect, recognize and respond to certain beacons on a closed test track in daylight and nighttime conditions while simulating a stopped CMV. The study compared driver reactions to cab-mounted warning beacons with reactions to warning triangles and found that the participants preferred the beacons over the triangles. Aurora also did a study observing the reactions of over 7,000 passenger vehicles to the presence of beacons versus warning triangles on public roads with unaware passing motorists traveling at highway speeds

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Dara Khosrowshahi is resigning from the board of autonomous vehicle technology company Aurora Innovation, citing a desire to focus on his ongoing responsibilities as CEO of Uber and reduce external board commitments, according to a Friday regulatory filing.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi resigns from self-driving truck startup Aurora's board

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