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RobotRisk / av trucking / Aurora

Aurora

Products: AV stack. Risk band: Elevated   RobotRisk index 33.6/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 93th percentile of 89 av trucking companies.

Analyst brief

The record contains two crash entries in close succession, April and May 2025: a brake issue causing a driverless semi to roll and strike a food truck (severity 3), and a passenger car striking a stationary driverless Aurora trailer on I-20 (severity 2). One entry involves an Aurora-side mechanical failure while the other is a third-party vehicle striking Aurora equipment, so the two events are not the same failure type. Two entries within roughly one month, following soon after driverless operations began, register as an early-operations cluster rather than a single anomaly. Index 34.1 and the 93.2nd percentile place Aurora in the elevated band, both entries press-reported.

Entries by year and severity

012025 S3: 11252026 S3: 1126
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Incident log (2 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S309/2026 crash NHTSA SGO record: 6 ADS crash reports on file · 6 reports NHTSA SGO
S304/2025 crash TX, USABrake issue caused driverless semi to roll, crash into food truck KLTV.com
S2 crash between Fort Worth and El Paso, TX…Passenger car strikes driverless Aurora truck trailer on I-20 · 1 vehicle Land Line Media
6 individual reports under the SGO regulator record (supporting filings, not counted as incidents)

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