First Passenger Drone, Human-Sized Drone EHang 184


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The EHang 184 is an autonomous drone that can carry one passenger for 23 minutes at 60 mph. Built by Chinese UAV company EHang, the drone basically looks like a giant DJI Inspire with gull-wing doors and fold up arms. Needless to say, it stole the show at CES. 


After a few years of quiet development, the company released the Ghostdrone in 2014, a user-friendly, camera-ready quadcopter that could be controlled by a phone app. Behind the scenes, work progressed on Huazhi’s dream project.


The Ehang 184 is all-electric with eight propellers mounted on four arms. Redundancy has been built into its power system and those extra propellers for safety. The craft is almost 5 feet tall, weighs 440 pounds, and can carry 220 pounds. It's designed to fly autonomously—all the user has to do, according to Ehang’s Derrick Xiong, is enter the desired coordinates in the craft’s control software, press a couple of onscreen buttons, sit back, and fly. No training required. For now, the vehicle flies at about 60 mph and can travel about 10 miles.




One of the thorniest problems with autonomous aircrafts is keeping them from crashing into unexpected objects on their flight paths. While autonomous drones typically include sensors to help them avoid collisions, the Ehang 184 is designed instead to land if it senses damage to any of its parts.

There’s no official launch date set yet, but the company plans to start selling the Ehang 184 in China in a few months, with the U.S. following close behind. The Ehang 184 is expected to cost between $200,000 and $300,000, in the same neighborhood as other nonautonomous flying cars being developed

The drone is about four-and-a-half feet tall, weighs 440 pounds, and will be able to carry a single passenger for 23 minutes at a speed of 60 MPH. The 184 also has gull-wing doors and arms that fold up.

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