Sitting in the cab of the largest vehicle rolling down the interstate south of Dallas, I keep looking out at the smallest things: not just other cars, but the remnants of tires and other bits of road debris.
A different set of eyes is spotting these objects before I do. But they don’t belong to the driver sitting behind the wheel of the Peterbilt that’s taking me for a ride. They’re not eyes at all—instead, an array of sensors attached to the exterior of the rig.
The company behind those sensors, a Pittsburgh startup called Aurora, plans to make this self-driving system a commercial reality—starting with a route that runs between Dallas and Houston—by the end of this year.
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