Local startup Verne has launched the self-driving service, starting with a fleet of ten electric cars. The rides are entirely entrusted to autonomous driving, but at the moment, to comply with the regulations, there is still an operator on board
THE robotaxialready popular in the United States and Asia, arrive in Europeprecisely in Croatia. In fact, the local startup is in Zagreb Verne has launched its own robotaxi service, i.e. self-driving taxis, whose fleet currently consists of ten Arcfox Alpha T5s from Baic Motor equipped with Chinese autonomous driving software Pony AI. The company is also financed by Mate Rimac, owner and CEO of the eponymous Rimac automobiles, as well as CEO of Bugatti. Verne’s robotaxis can currently travel in one limited area of ninety square kilometers (the cost, at a fixed rate, is 1.99 euros per trip), which however includes Zagreb international airport. Furthermore, it should be underlined that, although the rides are entrusted exclusively to autonomous driving, There is an operator inside the vehicles. And it couldn’t be otherwise, given local and European regulations. At the moment there are around three hundred people able to use the app and over four thousand on the waiting list.
