Human Drone Taxi to Be Tested in Nevada
EHang
The US Secret Service, and other security organization, will hate this. Insurance companies will determine the initially very high premiums. Paparazzi, daredevils, and stalkers may be delighted.
BBC reports that “a human-carrying drone has been given approval for test flights in Nevada, the first of its kind in the United States. “
A Chinese company, EHang, developed the roughly 4-foot, 440-pound drone, the Ehang 184 MegaDrone, that has eight propellers on four arms, and can carry one person. By January 2016,
The Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems has “granted permission for the drone to be tested and offered to help EHang submit the results to the Federal Aviation Administration in a bid to win further approval.” Watch EHang video.
