Aurora, Continental, and NVIDIA Partner to Deploy Driverless Trucks at Scale
Aurora (NASDAQ: AUR), Continental, and NVIDIA have announced a strategic partnership to deploy driverless trucks at scale. The collaboration will integrate NVIDIA's DRIVE Thor system-on-chip and DriveOS into the Aurora Driver, an SAE L4 autonomous driving system that Continental plans to mass-manufacture in 2027.
Aurora plans to launch its driverless trucking service in Texas in April 2025. The Aurora Driver will be powered by a dual NVIDIA DRIVE Thor SoC configuration, with production samples expected in the first half of 2025. Continental is developing a reliable, serviceable, cost-efficient generation of the Aurora Driver hardware for high-volume manufacturing, including a specialized independent secondary system for backup operations.
Continental will integrate DRIVE Thor with DriveOS into the primary Aurora Driver computer at its manufacturing facilities and deliver the hardware kit to Aurora's truck OEM partners for integration into customers' trucks.