Ready to share the highway? Autonomous trucking company Aurora expects its Texas freights to be fully self-driving by end of 2024. Aurora's trucks are equipped with long range lidar, radar and cameras. The company says its trucks use that technology to see four football fields ahead on highways. Aurora president Ossa Fisher says her trucking company's plan is to be full self-driving by the end of 2024.
The concept of self-driving vehicles used to be a topic of the future, but not any longer -- and certainly not in Texas, which has become a magnet for tech companies working in the autonomous driving space. Just a short, 30-mile drive down Interstate 45 from Downtown Dallas to the small town of Palmer, Texas, this future is idling at a terminal operated by a transportation company that plans to have its fleet of autonomous trucks fully self-driving freights across Texas by the end of 2024