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Driverless Trucks Can Double Profits, Says Aurora CEO

Driverless trucking company Aurora is ramping up production and switching to a ‘driver-as-a-service model’ as it looks to reach profitability and meet demand. Aurora co-founder and CEO Chris Urmson discusses how the company is scaling and what he sees as a friendly regulatory environment amid a national truck-driving shortage. Urmson joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg…

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Driverless trucking company Aurora is ramping up production and switching to a ‘driver-as-a-service model’ as it looks to reach profitability and meet demand. Aurora co-founder and CEO Chris Urmson discusses how the company is scaling and what he sees as a friendly regulatory environment amid a national truck-driving shortage. Urmson joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.”
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  1. @taytertot1986

    October 29, 2026 at 1:54 pm

    Love it. 5,000+ trucking related deaths per year in the US. All for safer roads and filling the trucker shortage.

  2. @rafaeltorres3549

    October 29, 2026 at 2:05 pm

    You mean not paying people is profitable. Shocker.

  3. @humanity_peace_fairness

    October 29, 2026 at 2:22 pm

    That’s the future.

  4. @mcohan6854

    October 29, 2026 at 4:51 pm

    Chris you keep going on TV and saying the same thing over and over for months now. Now you’ve made a 200 truck promise and weren’t able to deliver – stock got crushed today. You need to sign contracts! MOU’s are like tRump saying hes going to give each American a million dollars.

  5. @JJ-cw3nf

    October 29, 2026 at 5:54 pm

    If we don’t have enough Americans to do that job then kick them all off of welfare

  6. @JazzyMac-k8w

    October 29, 2026 at 7:46 pm

    They only operate in like three states and they only deliver two easy places semi drivers deliver in all weather, including snow and they have to drive around. Traffic. Humans running in the road animals. All that type of things will a driverless truck be able to back in to a person‘s house without damaging anything that’s to be determined I guess but I really doubt it. They only have five trucks up on the road right now. That is not a lot. They have a long way to go, especially with Tesla existing.

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Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow breaks down Alphabet’s weak search and ad sales which raised new fears that AI is eating into Google’s core business and caused a record market cap wipeout. Plus, Bloomberg reports Microsoft is looking to tap the bond market for the first time since 2017, seeking at least $25 billion to support spending as AI cloud growth soars. And, DoorDash makes a $17 billion bet on groceries with plans to buy Instacart.

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00:03:43 – Ayako Yoshioka, Wealth Enhancement Group on Microsoft & Alphabet
00:11:49 – Ryan Gould on Marvell & Lumentum
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