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That's not an impressive number. That's like 2 days' worth of driving.
Yeah that's about 2 and a half round-trips between Dallas and Houston, that's...not a lot to be calling this thing ready to go and pulling out the safety drivers.
I wonder how these handle accidents, traffic stops, bad lane markings from road construction, mechanical failure, bad weather (heavy rain making it difficult/impossible to see lane markings), etc.
You'd think they would be keeping the safety drivers in place for at least 6+ months of regular long-haul drives and upwards of 100k miles to cover all bases.
The one article I heard on TechLinked talked about them using lidarr.
So better in every way than a tesla.
Assuming they are top mounted, they have a better scanning coverage than a regular car.
Take this source as you want. Couldnt find much about it.
https://electrek.co/2025/05/01/aurora-first-company-deploy-class-8-self-driving-trucks-us-public-roads-video/
and
https://aurora.tech/