Aurora soars on partnership with Nvidia, Continental to deploy driverless trucks
** Shares of self-driving technology maker Aurora Innovation
AUR.O rise 51.2% to $9.83 premarket
** Aurora announces long-term partnership with Nvidia
NVDA.O and Germany's Continental CONG.DE to deploy
driverless trucks at scale
** Nvidia's DRIVE Thor and DriveOS will be integrated into
the Aurora Driver, an autonomous driving system that Continental
plans to mass manufacture in 2027, says Aurora
** Up to last close, AUR had nearly doubled in the past 12
months
(Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru)
((Akash.Sriram@thomsonreuters.com; https://twitter.com/hoodieonveshti;))
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