Continental and Aurora Innovation have finalized the design and architecture of an autonomous truck for launch at the end of the year.
The Aurora Driver is a Level 4 autonomous driving system that Continental plans to start production in 2027 for a self-driving truck. The finalized hardware design comes less than a year after the companies entered an industry-first partnership aimed at high-volume manufacturing of autonomous trucking systems.
Introducing new hardware to the market is complex and time-intensive, often taking years from initial design to the start of production. Aurora teamed up with Continental to jointly develop reliable, serviceable, cost-efficient autonomous hardware kits for mass production.
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The partnership gives Aurora a path to deploy autonomous self-driving trucks at scale after its initial driverless launch planned for the end of 2024. The future Aurora Driver will be designed to work for one million miles using Continental’s automotive development and manufacturing expertise.
Continental will show its latest technologies, including its self-driving truck work with Aurora, at CES 2024 in the US next week.
