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Aurora Innovation, Inc. (AUR)
Aurora, specializing in self-driving technology, leverages AI to develop and commercialize the Aurora Driver for autonomous vehicles. The company employs machine learning models to enhance the autonomy and safety features of its driverless technology, focusing on achieving a commercial launch for autonomous trucks. Aurora's AI initiatives aim to improve transportation safety and efficiency through refined self-driving capabilities.
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There's kind of surprising like little things that are really from learning from our experience with customers. So for example, for those of you who aren't deeply familiar in the freight space, is I think called a super single tire, and what that is, is where instead of putting 2 tires in tandem on an axle, you put one larger one that has various trade-offs and economics and fuel efficiency and whatnot.
- Christopher Urmson
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As we -- areas where we expect are probably the kind of the most challenging things to both validate and ensure we're getting the performance, particular things like the same places that we've talked about in the past with daytime driving. So pedestrians lying in the road, right? It turns out that doesn't happen very often...
- Christopher Urmson
We're seeing qualified leads surge to support our scaling ambitions in 2026 and 2027. We believe this reflects the growing recognition of Aurora's leadership in autonomous trucking and the urgency our customers feel to integrate safer, more efficient driverless trucks into their operations.
- Christopher Urmson
The Aurora Driver's rich data can support more accurate fault attribution and accelerate claims resolution. We believe this will be groundbreaking for an industry grappling with persistently rising insurance costs and will pave the way for safer roads as well as a more resilient cost-effective freight network.
- Christopher Urmson
Our technology addresses structural challenges that plague the freight industry, including an aging workforce, systemic driver shortages, hours of service constraints, and rising labor costs, which were recently cited at approximately $1 per mile by the American Transportation Research Institute.
- Christopher Urmson