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A passenger drone is an autonomous aircraft that is designed to carry a small number of passengers to a destination. [ 1 ] In 2021, Ehang , a technology company based in Guangzhou , China, developed the Ehang 184, the world's first passenger drone.
The EHang 184 is an autonomous passenger drone capable of reaching over 62 mph (100 km/h). EHang says it started carrying passengers in 2015 and since made 40 journeys till releasing footage in February 2018.
The long-awaited flying taxis are rapidly emerging in China since self-proclaimed industry leader EHang gained approval for its autonomous aerial vehicles from the Civil Aviation Authority of ...
Boeing says it has successfully completed the first test flight of a prototype for its autonomous passenger air vehicle, which could start carrying riders as early as next year. The test was ...
An autonomous aircraft is an aircraft which flies under the control of on-board autonomous robotic systems and needs no intervention from a human pilot or remote control.Most contemporary autonomous aircraft are unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) with pre-programmed algorithms to perform designated tasks, but advancements in artificial intelligence technologies (e.g. machine learning) mean that ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -Engineers sent China's biggest-yet cargo drone on a test run over the weekend while a helicopter taxi took to the skies on a soon-to-open 100-km (62-mile) route to Shanghai ...
The Boeing Passenger Air Vehicle (PAV) is an American electrical powered autonomous personal air vehicle prototype developed by the Boeing NeXt division of Boeing with the assistance of Aurora Flight Sciences.
In 2014, a UAV helped locate an 82-year-old man who had been missing for three days. The UAV searched a 200-acre field and located the man in 20 minutes. [133] In March 2017, DJI released a study of lives saved by the use of drones stating at least 59 lives have been saved by civilian drones in 18 different incidents. [134] [135]