The Rimac Group describes Verne--its new autonomous ride-hailing service--as its "next impossible thing." First, founder Mate Rimac established his eponymous electric hypercar company in Croatia, a country with no history of carmaking. Porsche, Hyundai and Softbank all took stakes. Rimac Technology now supplies electric drivetrains to Porsche, BMW and Aston Martin, among many others, and it is developing advanced energy storage tech, too. And now there's Verne, Mate's autonomous ride-hailing service launched today in Zagreb, the Croatian capital.

Jules Verne, famous science fiction writer not only produced texts that we still talk about today in our classrooms, science groups, book clubs and cartoon such as Rick and Morty; he also predicted these seven technologies in his texts. Not many people know this, but he is in fact, one of the original fathers of Science Fiction that affected a world wide audience. Jules Verne, was a French author writing the famous classics like Around the World in 80 Days, and 20K Leagues Under the Sea was born #OTD in 1828. Beyond just the plot devices and aesthetic that still influences sci-fi stories to this day, Jules Verne made predictions about technology that are true. If you are enjoying this sci-fi article, check out some of our other literature at The Ritual blog thread here.