Aurora Innovation's shares rose 35% on Tuesday after the self-driving technology developer announced a long-term deal with Nvidia and Germany's Continental to deploy driverless trucks. Uber-backed Aurora's stock has nearly doubled in the past 12 months,

Aurora, Continental, and NVIDIA announced a strategic partnership to deploy driverless trucks at scale, powered by the next-gen NVIDIA DRIVE Thor system-on-a-chip.

Driverless trucks are expected to start hauling freight on Interstate 45 between the Dallas and Houston areas with 20 driverless trucks in the near term

At CES in Las Vegas, Nvidia announced that Toyota, Aurora and Continental will equip their vehicle fleets with Nvidia's Drive technology. This concerns

Shares of Aurora Innovation jumped more than 30% Tuesday morning after the self-driving software company announced a partnership with tech giant Nvidia and manufacturer Continental to develop self-driving trucks.

Aurora Innovation, Inc. (NASDAQ:AUR) shares are trading higher premarket on Tuesday. On Monday, the company inked a long-term partnership with NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Continental AG (OTC:CTTAF) to scale driverless trucks using NVIDIA’s next-gen DRIVE Thor SoC.

Aurora, Continental and Nvidia recently announced a partnership at CES to deploy and manufacture driverless trucks at scale. The post Aurora, Continental and Nvidia announce partnership at CES appeared first on FreightWaves.

Building on NVIDIA DRIVE™, Aurora’s SAE Level 4 autonomous-driving system will integrate with NVIDIA’s accelerated compute running DriveOS.

NVIDIA’s DRIVE Thor and DriveOS will be integrated into the Aurora Driver, an autonomous driving system that Continental plans to mass-manufacture in 2027.