Aurora targets 30,000 driverless trucks, $5B revenue in 2030
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A target of 30,000 driverless trucks and $5B in 2030 revenue sets a concrete scale and timing bar for autonomous freight. Shippers and carriers should treat this as a planning scenario—start identifying lanes and contracts that could shift to AV capacity in the back half of the decade, and what that does to your cost base.
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