Uber, Verne, and Pony.ai launch autonomous rides in Zagreb, making the Croatian capital the first European city where users can book such rides via Uber's app (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)

<a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/uber-launches-autonomous-rides-zagreb-its-first-europe-2026-08-19/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260820/i8.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260820/p8#a260820p8" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Anzar Mehraj / <a href="http://www.reuters.com/">Reuters</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/uber-launches-autonomous-rides-zagreb-its-first-europe-2026-08-19/">Uber, Verne, and Pony.ai launch autonomous rides in Zagreb, making the Croatian capital the first European city where users can book such rides via Uber's app</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Uber (UBER.N), Verne and Pony.ai (PONY.O) said on Wednesday they had launched autonomous rides in Zagreb, making the Croatian capital &hellip; </p>