Today, we’re excited to share a first look at the Aurora-powered Volvo VNL, Volvo’s flagship long-haul truck, integrated with the Aurora Driver’s sensor suite. This prototype is the first of the Volvo VNL fleet to be designed to operate with the Aurora Driver, and represents a significant step as we begin building commercial L4 Class 8 trucks at scale for Volvo’s North American customers.
In 1978, Intel launched the first of what would become an enormously successful line of microprocessors. While these processors were impressive for their time, the secret to their success lay not in their specs, but in the common family of instruction set architectures that Intel designed for them.
Since our earliest days, Aurora has had a strong presence in Pittsburgh. As part of our commitment to continuing to grow here, we are excited to name Pittsburgh as our official corporate headquarters.
Whether it’s detecting a pedestrian over three football fields away, registering the speed of oncoming traffic, or driving through thick dust clouds or a blindingly bright sunset, the Aurora Driver has to see it all. It also has to know what to do with the world it sees.
Aurora has adopted a safety case-based approach because we believe that it is the most logical and efficient manner to show and explain how Aurora determines that our self-driving vehicles are acceptably safe to operate on public roads.
How do we know if a self-driving vehicle is safe enough to drive on public roads? It’s a question that has been asked since society first started talking about the potential for self-driving cars to grace our roads.
Our resident silicon photonics expert explains how we are scaling lidar.