Aurora is a commercial-route-running anchor of DEPLOY's autonomous-trucking cohort, on the new-trucking side of the new-trucking-vs-legacy-prime axis (versus Daimler-backed Torc) and near the driver-out end of the supervision-to-autonomy spectrum.
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It is real paid freight: the Aurora Driver (L4) has hauled commercial loads on Texas lanes (Dallas-Houston) since May 2025 on PACCAR trucks.
Price
No reviewed price is on record. We do not treat unverified analyst estimates as pricing data. There is no consumer price. Aurora runs autonomous freight as a B2B operation on its trucks, not a product sold to consumers, so DEPLOY records zero price points.
Availability
Internal use only
This is B2B autonomous freight, not a consumer product. The Aurora Driver (L4) runs on PACCAR trucks (Peterbilt 579, Kenworth T680), hauling paid commercial freight on Texas lanes since May 2025.
Real-world status
Aurora's driverless commercial freight runs the Aurora Driver (L4) on PACCAR trucks (Peterbilt 579 and Kenworth T680), hauling paid commercial freight on Texas lanes since May 2025. The verified-vs-claimed nuance: the trucks are genuinely driverless (the Aurora Driver operates the vehicle), but Aurora reinstated an OEM-requested in-cab observer at PACCAR's request in May 2025, and that observer is not a safety driver. On the autonomous-trucking verification spectrum it sits at driverless-commercial-with-observer: more driver-out than the supervised pilots (Plus, Torc), and just behind Bot Auto's fully humanless commercial run.
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Verified-vs-claimed: the trucks are genuinely driverless (the Aurora Driver operates), but an OEM-requested in-cab observer was reinstated at PACCAR's request in May 2025. The observer is not a safety driver, and aggregator framing that either erases the observer or recasts it as a safety driver both misstate the posture.
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There is no consumer price. Aurora runs autonomous freight as a B2B operation, so DEPLOY records zero price points.
No⊘absence. Aurora runs autonomous freight as a B2B operation on its own trucks; there is no consumer price.
Are Aurora's trucks really driverless?
Yes, the Aurora Driver operates the truck🟢verified. But Aurora reinstated an OEM-requested in-cab observer at PACCAR's request in May 2025; that observer is not a safety driver.
When did Aurora start commercial driverless freight?
May 2025🟢verified, on Texas lanes (Dallas-Houston), running the Aurora Driver (L4) on PACCAR trucks.
Pricing and availability are tagged verified or claimed against primary sources. Manufacturer targets are reported as targets, not prices you can pay today.