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Aurora's "driverless" truck still rides with a human in back
Aurora calling this truly driverless while quietly keeping a roadside specialist in the back seat on longer routes tells you where the real risk still sits. The harder problem was never proving one truck can drive itself — it's building enough of them and getting regulators comfortable, which is exactly why Aurora's pitch now leans on scale [2] while FMCSA still hasn't finalized rules for… — sources — Story: www.ttnews.com/articles/aurora-second-gen-truck Related: [1] www.ttnews.com/articles/tesla-earnings-q2-2026 [2] www.freightwaves.com/news/aurora-autonomous-t… [3] landline.media/running-empty-fmcsa-to-issue-p…