{"id":17603,"date":"2025-05-02T19:53:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17603"},"modified":"2025-05-02T19:53:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T19:53:44","slug":"the-first-driverless-semis-have-started-running-regular-longhaul-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17603","title":{"rendered":"The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Driverless trucks are officially running their first regular long-haul routes, making roundtrips between Dallas and Houston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, autonomous trucking firm Aurora announced it launched commercial service in Texas under its first customers, Uber Freight and Hirschbach Motor Lines, which delivers time- and temperature-sensitive freight. Both companies conducted test runs with Aurora, including safety drivers to monitor the self-driving technology dubbed \u201cAurora Driver.\u201d Aurora\u2019s new commercial service will no longer have safety drivers.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Aurora is starting with a single self-driving truck and plans to add more by the end of 2025.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/transportation\/articles\/first-driverless-semis-started-running-213139083.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/transportation\/articles\/first-driverless-semis-started-running-213139083.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Driverless trucks are officially running their first regular long-haul routes, making roundtrips between Dallas and Houston.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, autonomous trucking firm Aurora announced it launched commercial service in Texas under its first customers, Uber Freight and Hirschbach Motor Lines, which delivers time- and temperature-sensitive freight. Both companies conducted test runs with Aurora, including safety drivers to monitor the self-driving technology dubbed \u201cAurora Driver.\u201d Aurora\u2019s new commercial service will no longer have safety drivers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aurora is starting with a single self-driving truck and plans to add more by the end of 2025.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/transportation\/articles\/first-driverless-semis-started-running-213139083.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1353,1419,1226,1005,21,1410],"class_list":["post-17603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-automation","tag-drivers","tag-shipping","tag-technology","tag-texas","tag-trucking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17604,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17603\/revisions\/17604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}