Aurora to add night driving, new ways while collecting truck transport without driver

Aurora Innovation Aurora Innovation plans to expand its first success Trading without driver And add the night of leadership to its operations.

Aurora said on Thursday that in the second half of 2025, she will start sending her self -driving trucks at night and during harmful weather conditions such as rain or heavy wind. The company, which provided the update in the shareholders ’speech in the first quarter, is also planning to expand the driver’s truck transport road beyond Dallas to Houston, in El Paso and Phoenix.

“We would like to get a large return on assets for each of our trucks, so we will try to pay efficiency to get the largest number of miles on the largest possible number of trucks as quickly “We must be able to double the time of our leadership once the night is opened. This is our next main teacher.”

Aurora is already running charging with self -driving trucks in those circumstances, but with the human safety player behind the wheel. The company said it has completed more than 4000 miles in one self -driving truck without driving a driver to run for its Hirschbach Motor Lines and Uber Freight.

In the week since Aurora commercial launch, the company has already expanded to two drivers who work daily and says it expects to run “dozens of trucks” by the end of 2025.

Teacher and future plans come along with another major transformation in the company: The resignation of the co -founder and chief product official Sterling Anderson.

Aurora shared new details on Thursday in the shareholders ’speech in the first quarter about the plans for the development of independent shipping service, indicating that it will provide more timelines for the main landmarks with their expansion.

Aurora achieved $ 871,000 of experimental revenues from her payment commercial shipments, which increased by 22 % on a quarterly basis and 54 % compared to the same time last year, in Madai.

“At the commercial launch, we will start to identify revenues,” said Thursday during the profit call in the first quarter of Ura. “This will include driver’s without driver’s revenues, in addition to continuous experimental revenues … through our deliberate approach to launching them, we expect our revenues to be 2025 modest, in millions of average number. For modeling purposes, we expect the revenues to be consecutive.”

The company has reported the operating expenses of $ 211 million, including $ 153 million for research and development. She used $ 142 million of operating cash and $ 8 million of Capex in the first quarter, ending with about $ 1.2 billion in cash and short -term investments. Aurora expects to spend $ 175 million to $ 185 million in the quarter for the rest of this year.

In the short term, Ura plans to own her trucks, maintain and secure her trucks- Available on Uber charging network – For customers. The company works with Paccar and Volvo partners to build wide self -driving trucks. Starting in 2027 or before, Aurora expects customers to purchase these trucks directly from manufacturers so that they can turn into a driver model as a service and achieve “high total margins”, in Maday.

This article has been updated with more information about the registered Aurora revenues and the following landmarks of the company.