It’s been a year of progress and delays for Aurora, the Pittsburgh-based autonomous trucking company founded by Chris Urmson. After promising to launch commercial driverless truck operations in 2024, the company was forced to push the start date until April 2025. A few weeks later, however, it was forced to put safety drivers back in the cabs at the request of the trucks’ manufacturer.
But in a recent interview, Urmson insists that having safety drivers in the cab is a matter of optics, not an indicator of technological regression. Operationally, it has no bearing on Aurora’s progress.
“2025 for us was really about how do we build it to th …
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