The newly formed Aurora Industrial Design team designed and showed our vision of what the future self-driving trucks might look like. The two trucks were debuted at the American Trucking Association Convention, and demonstrated what a scalable, cross-platform might look like. This helped solidify Aurora's partnership with PACCAR, which holds 30% of the U.S. trucking market.

Demonstrate and prove the product works — In 2025, Aurora launched commercial operations with Uber Freight on the Dallas–Houston corridor, delivering a limited fleet of roadworthy autonomous trucks and the terminals and physical infrastructure required to operate a fully functional self-driving middle-mile network.

To validate scalability and business viability, we partnered with OEMs to standardize Autonomy Enabled Trucks, enabling safe, plug-and-play hardware integration. We also drove major hardware optimizations, including a 30% aerodynamic efficiency improvement on the Aurora Driver Kit, delivering meaningful reductions in operating costs.

In partnership with Continental and our OEMs, we’re developing the Aurora Driver as a scalable, automotive-grade product ready for commercial deployment, supporting Aurora’s long-term goal of nationwide autonomous trucking. This work is actively underway with our partners.