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Tuesday 14 February 2017

Flying cars in Dubai

Clickbait ? Probably. But at least it's testable and we don't have long to wait.

Dubai’s head of transportation, Mattar al-Tayer, says the city will be “making every effort to start the operation of the autonomous aerial vehicle in July 2017,” and that the program would hopefully help remove some of the traffic burden which is causing a problem in the city of nearly three million.

The EHang 184 is built by the Chinese company that shares its name, and has been in development for many years. The vehicle, which is a single-seat drone-like contraption with four arms carrying a pair of propellers each, has a maximum payload capacity of 220lbs. It has a top speed of just over 35mph and a maximum cruising time of about 25 minutes, giving it a range of somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 miles.

http://bgr.com/2017/02/13/flying-cars-dubai-taxi-drones/

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