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Driverless trucks can now travel farther distances faster than human drivers

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by DangitBobby

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Due to federal safety regulations. I wonder how much safer this is?
> Revenue is projected to continue as the company adds more trucks and driverless routes to its network. Today, the company has 30 trucks in the fleet, 10 of which are operating driverlessly. That fleet is expected to grow to more than 200 trucks by the end of the year. Urmson said the company’s trucks have racked up 250,000 driverless miles as of January 2026 with a perfect safety record.
> In the second quarter, Aurora plans to deploy a fleet of driverless International Motors LT trucks, which will not have a human observer on board. Aurora’s driverless operations that use Paccar trucks currently have a human safety observer in the cab as requested by the truck manufacturer.
I don't know that there's enough data here to say that their current safety record justifies the claims just yet. If it's not safer than overworking a regular driver then the headline claim is just regulation arbitrage.

by Neywiny

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Imagine Tesla showed off a semi almost 10 years ago and they have some capacity of self driving. They could've done this years ago if it wasn't a made up timeline. Good work to these people. I don't know how they're spending that much money per year, but the hardest part is starting and they've started. High hopes

by stevage

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And how many hundred thousand truck drivers are now facing the end of their careers?

by mikestew

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Aurora seems to be flying under the radar, this is the first I've heard of them. They seem to be actually deploying trucks, and not just smoke and mirrors.