Aurora Innovation surges on partnership with Continental, Nvidia
By Michele Maatouk
Date: Tuesday 07 Jan 2025
(Sharecast News) - Aurora Innovation surged on Tuesday after it announced a long-term strategic partnership with Continental and Nvidia to deploy driverless trucks at scale.
The partnership will be powered by the next-generation Nvidia DRIVE Thor system-on-a-chip (SoC).
Drive THOR and DriveOS will be integrated into the Aurora Driver, an SAE L4 autonomous driving system that Continental plans to mass-manufacture in 2027.
Chris Urmson, chief executive and co-founder at Aurora, said: "Delivering one driverless truck will be monumental. Deploying thousands will change the way we live.
"Nvidia is the market leader in accelerated computing, and they'll strengthen our ecosystem of partners and our ability to deliver safe and reliable driverless trucks to our customers at scale."
Aruna Anand, president & CEO of Automotive for Continental North America, said: "Developing, industrialising, and manufacturing powerful self-driving hardware at commercial scale requires unique and unparalleled expertise.
"Our industry-first collaboration with Aurora and Nvidia to deliver driverless trucks positions Continental at the forefront of this cutting-edge technology and will drive value to our business."
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