Aurora co-founder and CEO Chris Urmson discussed the company's progress on the Equity podcast at the HumanX conference in San Francisco, covering why long-haul trucking may prove the autonomy business case before robotaxis, what 'verifiable AI' means, and Aurora's roadmap beyond trucking.
The company started commercial driverless operations last April and is scaling from a handful of trucks to hundreds this year, operating driverless freight routes between Dallas and Houston.
Urmson emphasized that end-to-end systems are a liability when lives are on the line, and highlighted a 'surprisingly common-sense solution' to the driverless truck safety triangle problem.
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