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Aurora Innovation develops autonomous driving technology for the freight transportation and ride-hailing industries, creating self-driving systems enabling trucks and passenger vehicles to operate safely without human drivers. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with operations in Mountain View, California and Dallas, Texas, Aurora was founded by former executives from Google's Waymo, Tesla, and Uber's self-driving programs bringing deep expertise in autonomous vehicle development. The company's Aurora Driver represents a comprehensive self-driving system combining lidar sensors, radar, cameras, and advanced artificial intelligence software perceiving environments, predicting behaviors of other road users, and planning safe trajectories navigating complex driving scenarios. Aurora pursues a dual-market strategy targeting both autonomous trucking for long-haul freight transportation and ride-hailing services for passenger mobility, with autonomous trucks representing the near-term focus given simpler operational environments on highways versus urban ride-hailing requiring navigation through dense city traffic. The company established partnerships with major truck manufacturers including PACCAR, Volvo Trucks, and Continental developing production-ready autonomous truck platforms, plus collaborations with logistics companies including FedEx and Uber Freight planning to deploy Aurora-powered self-driving trucks across their networks. Aurora completed a SPAC merger in November 2021 listing on NASDAQ and raising approximately $1.5 billion funding continued technology development, manufacturing preparation, and commercial deployment. The company reported no revenues as technology remains in development and testing phases with commercial autonomous truck deployments targeted for 2024-2025 pending regulatory approvals and technology validation. Aurora faces intense competition from Waymo Via pursuing autonomous trucking, TuSimple and Plus.ai developing self-driving systems for freight, and ride-hailing competitors including GM's Cruise and Amazon's Zoox. Recent developments include expanding testing fleets operating in Texas and other states, achieving key technical milestones demonstrating safety performance meeting or exceeding human driver capabilities, and pursuing regulatory engagement with federal and state authorities establishing frameworks for autonomous vehicle approvals and operations.