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Aurora Releases Aurora Driver Beta 5.0, As Company Advances Toward Commercial Launch
Beta release reveals key updates and critical progress on the Aurora Driver as it nears “Feature Complete” milestone, including the capability to respond to
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nBeta release reveals key updates and critical progress on the Aurora Driver as it nears “Feature Complete” milestone, including the capability to respond to emergency vehicles\n\n PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nToday, Aurora Innovation, Inc. (NASDAQ: AUR) released Aurora Driver Beta 5.0, the latest version of its integrated hardware and autonomy system, to its autonomous trucking fleet in Texas. With a more performant Aurora Driver, Aurora advances toward commercial launch and continues to increase its weekly hauls of freight for pilot customers like FedEx, Uber Freight, Werner, and Schneider.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221219005157/en/With the release of Aurora Driver Beta 5.0, Aurora advances toward commercial launch and continues to increase its weekly hauls of freight for pilot customers like FedEx, Uber Freight, Werner, and Schneider. (Photo: Aurora)\nSafe and reliable autonomous driving, while being courteous and also handling the nuances of the road, is essential to launch commercial operations at scale. Aurora Driver Beta 5.0 unlocks key safety-critical and increasingly complex highway driving capabilities, enabling the Aurora Driver to autonomously operate in more scenarios. These new capabilities include:\n\n\nDetecting and appropriately responding to emergency vehicles like ambulances, fire engines, and law enforcement vehicles.\n\n\nSafely re-entering traffic after resolving a system problem that prompted the Aurora Driver to pull over to the shoulder.\n\n\nNavigating lanes with temporary barriers, a typical scenario in construction zones.\n\n\nAdvancing toward “Feature Complete”\n\nThe Aurora Driver is the autonomy system that underpins Aurora Horizon, Aurora’s subscription-based autonomous trucking service. Aurora’s quarterly beta releases debut new capabilities of the Aurora Driver, which are reflected in the Aurora Horizon roadmap to commercial launch, and bring the system closer to “Feature Complete.” Aurora expects to reach “Feature Complete” at the end of Q1 2023, which will indicate the capabilities required for commercial launch have been implemented in the Aurora Driver and all policy interventions have been removed.\n\n“We are already demonstrating the value an autonomous trucking product can bring to our pilot customers a...