Aurora expands autonomous trucking across Sun Belt

Aurora Innovation has tripled its driverless trucking network to 10 routes following its latest software release, with plans to expand across the southern United States this year. The autonomous vehicle firm said it expects to have more than 200 driverless trucks in operation by the end of 2026.

The software update, Aurora’s fourth since deploying driverless trucks in April 2025, validates operations on an approximately 1,000-mile lane between Fort Worth and Phoenix. The company said this makes it the first to autonomously haul freight on a route exceeding federal hours of service limitations for human drivers.

Aurora’s driverless network now covers routes between Dallas and Houston, Fort Worth and El Paso, El Paso and Phoenix, Fort Worth and Phoenix, and Dallas and Laredo. The company reported 250,000 driverless miles as of January 2026 with no Aurora Driver-attributed collisions.

In a statement, Chris Urmson, co-founder and Chief Executive of Aurora, said: “Expanding across the Sun Belt and introducing customer endpoints enables us to provide our customers with the capacity they need to move goods at a scale that wasn’t possible before.”

Aurora said its commercial truck capacity is fully committed through the third quarter of 2026. The company expects to achieve positive free cash flow in 2028.

Source: Aurora