# The US truck safety regulator let driverless trucks use cab-mounted warning beacons instead of a driver placing warning triangles after a breakdown, after Aurora ran 34 such trucks over 500,000 miles

Page: https://flyvolo.ai/en/changes/ev-20261007-truck-driver-5
Date: 2026-10-07 · Stage: Deployment
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Occupation: https://flyvolo.ai/en/careers/truck-driver

## Scope

United States. The regulator grants a five-year exemption, effective 7 October 2026, letting Aurora and other carriers running Level 4 automated trucks use cab-mounted warning beacons in lieu of the warning devices that federal rules otherwise require the driver to place when a truck stops on the road or shoulder; Aurora reports using the beacons under a waiver from October 2025 to January 2026 on 34 trucks that travelled over 500,000 miles. Operations that would need hazardous-materials, passenger or triple-trailer endorsements are excluded. It removes one roadside step of handling a breakdown; recovery, closures, receivers and locked gates are not addressed.

## Source

- Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration — Federal Register notice 2026-20734, grant of a limited exemption to Aurora Operations, Inc. (published October 9, 2026; effective October 7, 2026) — https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2026/10/09/2026-20734.txt (primary source)

## What this means

One roadside part of handling a breakdown no longer needs a person on driverless trucks.

## What it does not show yet

One step of a breakdown, for one class of trucks; the rest of the trip going wrong is untouched.

## How to verify it yourself

Open Federal Register notice 2026-20734 and find "cab-mounted warning beacons in lieu of traditional warning devices".


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