Uber aims to launch Europe’s first robotaxi service with Pony AI and Verne

Uber is joining forces with 2 companies, China's Pony AI and Croatia's Verne, to motorboat what it claims volition beryllium Europe's archetypal commercially disposable robotaxi service. The vehicles are already being tested successful Zagreb, Croatia, wherever Verne is headquartered, and volition soon beryllium disposable to customers connected Uber's ridehail network.

The announcement is the latest determination by Uber to shield itself from the fiscal blowback of robotaxis perchance overtaking the accepted ridehail business. The institution has allied itself with dozens of autonomous conveyance developers implicit the past twelvemonth successful an effort to transportation investors that it tin past the impendin …

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