Aurora

Robot types: AV stack. Risk band: Elevated RobotRisk index 32.4/100 (severity- and time-weighted incidents) · ranked 11 of 17 among Autonomous vehicles and trucking companies with incidents (141 tracked).

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.

Risk index

32.4/100RobotRisk index

36.1/100Median index across the 17 Autonomous vehicles and trucking companies with incident history (141 tracked, 124 with none)

11 of 17Rank in Autonomous vehicles and trucking (of 17 with incident history)

ElevatedRisk band

Products and robot types

Industries: Autonomous vehicles and trucking · Sectors: Ground Passenger Transportation

Risk is scored per product and robot type: each incident is attributed to the product it names, or to the company's matching robot type.

Robot type	Share of company risk	Rank within type
AV stack	100%	1 of 5

Product	Robot type	Status	Incidents	Index
Aurora Driver	AV stack	early-access	2	32.4

Incident timeline

Comparisons over time

Per-type breakdown

Incident type	Unique incidents	Share
crash	2	100%

Unique incident list

2 unique incidents on file for this company.

Sev	Date	Type	Location	Incident	Source
S3	~Apr 2025	crash	TX, USA	Brake issue caused driverless semi to roll, crash into food truck	KLTV.com
S2	~Mar 2024	crash	between Fort Worth and El Paso, TX, USA	Passenger car strikes driverless Aurora truck trailer on I-20 · 1 vehicle	Land Line Media