The earliest highy protected self-propelled sovereign system at scale in the World
This achievement sets the stage for the production of the autonomous hardware and sheduled to begin in 2027. The collaboration aims to bring a scalable and functional automotive-grade autonomous system to the market.
Recognizing the complexibility of presenting new hardware, Aurora and Continental collaborated to develop reliable, profitable and convenient hardware equipment for mass production.
The partnership positions Aurora to deploy autonomous trucks at scale after its initial driverless launch, planned for the end of 2024, with the goal of delivering customer value for one million miles. The partnership positions Aurora to deploy autonomous trucks at scale after its initial driverless launch, planned for the end of 2024, with the goal of delivering customer value for one million miles. Philipp von Hirschheydt, Executive Board member for the Automotive Group Sector at Continental, pointed that achieving this milestone paves the way for the deployment of user-friendly autonomous trucking systems and emphasized the transformative potential of autonomous mobility technologies. To provide highly secured system, Aurora and Continental’s engineering teams are collaborating to come up with an industrialized fallback system, scheduled to go into production in 2027. This dual engineering approach aims to improve safety level by reducing exposure to single points of failure.
The partnership roadmap outlines key phases:
2023: Blueprint and Design
2024-2025: Build and Test
2026-2027: Finalization, Start of Production, and Integration
2027 and beyond: Deployment at Scale
Continental plans to transfer its extensive automotive list of products, including high-perfomance computers, automated driving control units (ADCU) and more devices for partnership integration and customer network development.
