Dr. Gopal Gupta Talks With Dallas Morning News About Aurora’s Self-Driving Trucks

Via Dallas Morning News — Darcy Desjarlais, senior truck operations specialist at Aurora, hovers both hands under the steering wheel of Aurora’s self-driving truck as it cruises at 65 miles per hour down Interstate 45, heading in its typical route towards Houston.

Above his palms could be the future of short and long hauls for transported goods.

To his right sits Riliwan Fabanwo, truck operations specialist at Aurora, monitoring the roads for any objects, slow-moving cars or challenges the Aurora technology faces. Sensors track up to 400 meters ahead and behind the truck, nearly 360-degrees around the big rig’s front, back and sides. “I feel like this is the future for trucking,” said Fabanwo, who has been with Aurora for over a year.

the last several years, and Texas is viewed as a prime testing ground for companies trying out the emerging technology. It only became possible through the advancement of technology, according to Gopal Gupta, professor of computer science and co-director of the University of Texas at Dallas Center for Applied AI and Machine Learning. “Autonomous driving has a significant appeal to everybody,” Gupta said.

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Source | Dallas Morning News

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