Self-driving tech company Aurora partners with Fiat Chrysler to build autonomous platforms

Aurora already has partnerships with Volkswagen AG, Hyundai Motor Co and China’s Byton to develop and test self-driving systems

|Jun 10, 2019, 10:55:07 IST

Self-driving car software startup Aurora said on Sunday it would partner with Fiat Chrysler to build autonomous platforms for commercial vehicles, the latest collaboration with an automaker for the fast-growing Silicon Valley company.The deal with one of the Big Three will expand Aurora’s scope, “allowing us to offer a variety of solutions to strategic customers in logistics, transit and other use cases,” the Palo Alto, California-based company said in a brief statement.[caption id="attachment_4225309" align="alignnone" width="640"]

Fiat. Image: Reuters[/caption]Besides for ride-hailing fleets, automakers and others are interested in self-driving technology for commercial applications, such as delivery vans.Financial terms were not disclosed.Aurora already has partnerships with Volkswagen AG, Hyundai Motor Co and China’s Byton to develop and test self-driving systems for a range of applications for automakers, fleet owners and others.The company is among dozens of startups, automakers and large technology companies working on self-driving car systems, eager to capitalise on a sea change in the transportation industry brought by developments in machine learning.Fiat Chrysler has an existing partnership with Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving unit, in which it supplies Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivans for Waymo’s driverless fleet, which is currently in operation in Arizona.In February, Aurora said it had raised $530 million in new funding.

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