Driverless trucks hit the highway as self-driving rigs begin making roundtrips between Dallas and Houston

Driverless and autonomous semi trucks have begun to hit long-haul routes in America, and are now running in Texas between Dallas and Houston.

American news outlets such as CNN have reported that these are the official regular long-haul routes for driverless trucks.

The trucks are being used by the autonomous trucking firm Aurora, with customers including Uber Freight and Hirschbach Motor Lines.

This marks more good news for advocates of autonomous trucks, as California recently relaxed some rules allowing for more testing of self-driving heavy-haulers.

The trucks are making roundtrips in Texas

CNN reported that the trucks have begun to make regular roundtrips between Dallas and Houston in Texas.

Aurora announced in late April 2025 that it had partnered with Uber and Hirschbach to launch the services.

Making the service more impressive is how the freight is both time and temperature-sensitive.

Aurora worked with the two companies to conduct various tests.

A safety driver was monitoring the technology to ensure it worked as expected.

But once the commercial service is fully up and running, Aurora has said that the trucks will not have safety drivers.

That could worry those who are perhaps much more on the fence when it comes to driverless cars.

The driverless trucks are full of computers and sensors.

To ensure the trucks are as safe as possible, each one of them is filled with computers and sensors.

Aurora has said that the trucks can see across the length of over four football fields.

For those who are worrying, the company has said its autonomous trucks have delivered over 10,000 customer loads across four years of trials.

Plus, the trucks have completed over 1,200 miles with no human in the truck as a backup.

For now, there is just one self-driving truck model in the range but more are coming by the end of 2025.

Self-driving trucks may soon become the norm across more of the United States.

In fact, California recently began to relax rules that would allow for self-driving heavy-haulers to test in the Golden State.

Tesla is likely to take advantage of this with a self-driving mode equipped on its Semi truck.

If Aurora’s venture proves to be successful, perhaps its operations will indeed expand to California and beyond.

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