# Aurora Driver (Peterbilt 579): Price, Availability & Status (2026)

Aurora's driverless commercial freight (Aurora Driver L4 on PACCAR trucks) has hauled paid freight on Texas lanes since May 2025, with an OEM-requested in-cab observer. B2B, no consumer price.

## Price

_No verified price on record._

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

_Status: internal-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.

## 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.

## Compare

| Model | Pricing | Tier |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Bot Auto](/price/bot-auto-truck) | No consumer price | absence (Commercial (humanless OTR)) |
| [Kodiak RoboTruck](/price/kodiak-robotruck) | No consumer price | absence (Commercial (driverless, oilfield)) |
| [Einride Pod](/price/einride-pod) | No consumer price | absence (Commercial (cabless, remote-supervised)) |
| [Torc (Daimler)](/price/torc-freightliner-cascadia) | No consumer price | absence (Pilot (legacy-prime, 2027 target)) |

## Common questions

### Can I buy an Aurora self-driving truck?

No. 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. But Aurora reinstated an OEM-requested in-cab observer at PACCAR's request in May 2025; that observer is not a safety driver.

## How DEPLOY verified this

- [How DEPLOY tracks pricing](https://news.deploy.report/methodology/how-we-track-pricing)
- [How DEPLOY verifies deployment status](https://news.deploy.report/methodology/how-we-verify-deployment-status)

## Related reading

- [Deploy News: How DEPLOY verifies](https://news.deploy.report/explainers/how-deploy-verifies)
- [Deploy News: What is physical AI?](https://news.deploy.report/explainers/what-is-physical-ai)

## On the registry

- [Model record](https://registry.deploy.report/models/aurora-peterbilt-579.md)
- [Manufacturer](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/aurora.md)

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