Aurora, Continental, and NVIDIA announced a strategic partnership to deploy driverless trucks at scale, powered by the next-gen NVIDIA DRIVE Thor system-on-a-chip.

Aurora Innovation's shares rose 35% on Tuesday after the self-driving technology developer announced a long-term deal with Nvidia and Germany's Continental to deploy driverless trucks. Uber-backed Aurora's stock has nearly doubled in the past 12 months,

Aurora, Continental and Nvidia recently announced a partnership at CES to deploy and manufacture driverless trucks at scale. The post Aurora, Continental and Nvidia announce partnership at CES appeared first on FreightWaves.

Key Takeaways Shares of Aurora Innovation surged Tuesday morning after the company announced a new partnership to develop driverless trucks.The company will work with Nvidia to develop its self-driving software,

The company is partnering with Continental and Nvidia to manufacture self-driving hardware at scale in 2027. Also: More emergency declarations issued for winter weather; FMCSA's random drug testing rates for 2025;

Aurora Innovation, Inc. (NASDAQ:AUR) shares are trading higher premarket on Tuesday. On Monday, the company inked a long-term partnership with NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Continental AG (OTC:CTTAF) to scale driverless trucks using NVIDIA’s next-gen DRIVE Thor SoC.

Driverless trucks are expected to start hauling freight on Interstate 45 between the Dallas and Houston areas with 20 driverless trucks in the near term

Building on NVIDIA DRIVE™, Aurora’s SAE Level 4 autonomous-driving system will integrate with NVIDIA’s accelerated compute running DriveOS.

Aurora's partnership with NVIDIA has boosted sentiment but is unlikely to meaningfully alter the trajectory of its business. Learn more about AUR stock here.