Pony.ai and Verne began fully driverless rides carrying passengers on public roads in Zagreb on 10 September, the first European robotaxi programme to take the safety operator out of the car. The 22 km route links Verne's HQ and a business district to Zagreb airport. These are test rides layered on the supervised commercial service the partners launched in April.
Pony.ai / Verne / Uber — Zagreb, Croatia — Pony.ai and Verne began fully driverless robotaxi rides carrying passengers on public roads in Zagreb on 10 Sep 2026, the first time a European robotaxi programme has removed the human safety operator from the vehicle. The route runs 22 km linking Verne's headquarters and a central business district to Franjo Tuđman Airport, with the driverless area to be widened over the following months. These are test rides on top of the commercial service the three partners launched in Zagreb in April 2026, which carries safety operators — so Europe now has a supervised paid service and an unsupervised test programme, not a driverless commercial service. Pony.ai's overseas pipeline exceeds 4,000 robotaxis, including more than 2,000 planned with Uber across Europe.
Waymo runs 450,000 paid driverless rides a week on 200 million rider-only miles, and 2026 brought the field's first paid rides with no steering wheel, a London licence — and its first real setbacks: a 3,791-vehicle recall, a freeway pause, and China's first nationwide permit freeze.
The two expanded their partnership to deploy more than 2,000 Pony.ai robotaxis in Europe, growing from the Zagreb service — Europe's first commercial robotaxi operation, run with local operator Verne — to four more cities, with Middle East deployments also planned.
Pony.ai / ComfortDelGro (Singapore) — Pony.ai, with Singapore operator ComfortDelGro, opened driverless robotaxis to the general public in Punggol on 22 Jun 2026 — bookable by anyone via the Zig app. It is the Chinese operator's first fully public service outside China (April was invite-only) and a notable step in the global robotaxi race; Pony.ai targets 3,500+ robotaxis across 20+ cities by end-2026.