Aurora autonomous truck outside Aurora's new Houston terminal, which is designed to support and service driverless trucks at a commercial scale. [Photo: Aurora]
Aurora Innovation—which aims to begin rolling totally human-free trucks between Dallas and Houston by late 2024—said nearly half of all truck freight in Texas moves along I-45 between Dallas and Houston, making the corridor an ideal route for Aurora’s commercial launch.
Former Ryder CTO Kendra Phillips will lead Aurora's trucking and logistics partner programs. The newest one—a Fort Worth-El Paso hauling route for Werner Enterprises—is a key link in the commercial thoroughfare from L.A. to Atlanta. But it's a flat, monotonous run that many truck drivers find unappealing—making it a key test case for the Aurora Driver.
Aurora capped off a six-month pilot test of its autonomous Toyota S-AM minivans in Dallas-Fort Worth by giving Toyota North America CEO Ted Ogawa and other execs a ride toward DFW Airport yesterday.
Aurora will continue to test and develop its ride-hailing and autonomous trucking tech from Dallas, including a new trucking route from Dallas to El Paso. It expects to launch its ride-hailing product, Aurora Connect, in late 2024.
Fort Worth-based American Airlines has flown what it says is the first U.S. commercial passenger flight to use synthetic jet fuel made from waste carbon dioxide and renewable electricity, delivered through a commercial airport’s fuel system....
Dallas-based Bestow has formed a dedicated team called Bestow Labs to build AI-native products for life insurance and annuity carriers, deliberately separating that work from the production systems its clients depend on....
Fort Worth-based American Airlines has flown what it says is the first U.S. commercial passenger flight to use synthetic jet fuel made from waste carbon dioxide and renewable electricity, delivered through a commercial airport’s fuel system....
Dallas-based Bestow has formed a dedicated team called Bestow Labs to build AI-native products for life insurance and annuity carriers, deliberately separating that work from the production systems its clients depend on....