{"id":108394,"date":"2025-07-31T20:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/108394\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T20:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:07:17","slug":"aurora-begins-nighttime-driverless-truck-runs-between-dallas-and-houston-dallas-innovates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/108394\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Begins Nighttime Driverless Truck Runs Between Dallas and\u00a0Houston \u00bb Dallas Innovates"},"content":{"rendered":"

In April\u2014after years of testing its self-driving tech on I-45 with safety drivers in truck cabs\u2014Pittsburgh-based Aurora Innovation launched America\u2019s first fully driverless 18-wheeler delivery service<\/a> between Dallas and Houston. But those runs were deployed amid bright daylight. Now the company\u2019s gone a step further by launching nighttime runs between the Texas cities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The nighttime runs began Sunday. the company said. At launch in April, one driverless truck was running during the daytime, completing two runs a day. Now Aurora (Nasdaq: AUR) has three trucks running on I-45 day and night, scaling up to enable 12 runs a day and doubling potential truck utilization.<\/p>\n

\u201cEfficiency, uptime, and reliability are important for our customers, and Aurora is showing we can deliver,\u201d Chris Urmson, co-founder and CEO of Aurora, said in a statement. \u201cJust three months after launch, we\u2019re running driverless operations day and night and we\u2019ve expanded our terminal network to Phoenix. Our rapid progress is beginning to unlock the full value of self-driving trucks for our customers, which has the potential to transform the trillion-dollar trucking industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Opening 15-hour Fort Worth to Phoenix route<\/p>\n

As Urmson noted, Aurora opened its Phoenix terminal in June. The company is now making autonomous hauls on the Fort Worth-Phoenix route for its partner logistics companies Hirschbach and Werner.<\/p>\n

The Fort Worth to Phoenix route has a trip time of over 15 hours, surpassing a human driver\u2019s legal 11-hour driving limit, which until now has meant a driver must stop for rest along the way. Aurora says its self-driving trucks can \u201chalve transit times,\u201d especially on long routes like Fort Worth-Phoenix\u2014which the company notes is nearly half the distance of the busy Atlanta to Los Angeles freight corridor.<\/p>\n

2nd-quarter results and \u2018Aurora Driver\u2019 livestream<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Aurora announced its second-quarter 2025 revenue results, which totaled $1 million across driverless and vehicle operator supervised commercial loads for Hirschbach, Uber Freight, Werner, FedEx, Schneider, and Volvo Autonomous Solutions, among others.<\/p>\n

This was Aurora\u2019s first quarter with commercial revenue, following the launch of its driverless operations in April. In a sign that Aurora is truly in this for the long haul, however, eyeing future scaling and expansion, it also reported a Q2 operating loss of $230 million (excluding $55 million in stock-based compensation) and a net loss of $201 million.<\/p>\n

If you want to see the company\u2019s trucks in action, you can check out\u00a0 Aurora Driver Live<\/a>, a publicly available YouTube livestream of its self-driving truck operations. The company says the livestream \u201cdemonstrates the safety, reliability, and growing maturity of the Aurora Driver, offering a first-of-its-kind glimpse into the future of freight transportation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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