Ehang's 184 Passenger Drone Takes To The Skies In Remarkable Footage

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Itā€™s rare for a product like this to live up to the hype but Ehangā€™s passenger drone might just be one of those products.

The Chinese company has released some astonishing test flight footage of its Ehang 184 drone and if weā€™re being honest it looks pretty remarkable.

To be clear, this is not CGI and yes those are actual human beings flying it.

Ehang has been putting the little 1/2 person drone through a gruelling set of tests including a high altitude flight (300ft), night flights and even trying to take-off it during a category 7 typhoon.

Incredibly, it passed all of them, and did so while looking remarkably stable.

ā€œWhat weā€™re doing isnā€™t an extreme sport, so the safety of each passenger always comes first.ā€ explains Ehang CEO Huazhi Hu.

Ehang has been putting the little 1/2 person drone through a gruelling set of tests including a high altitude flight (300ft), night flights and even trying to take-off it during a category 7 typhoon.

Incredibly, it passed all of them, and did so while looking remarkably stable.

ā€œWhat weā€™re doing isnā€™t an extreme sport, so the safety of each passenger always comes first.ā€ explains Ehang CEO Huazhi Hu.

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While it will initially be self-driving, Ehang have designed the 184 to be easily flown by anyone with a simple tablet display and easy controls.

At the beginning it will, of course, simply be a toy for the rich but Ehang have much grander plans for the 184 and once they have built enough, want it to become as affordable as a normal car.

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40 people have now flown in the Ehang drone including the CEO himself, demonstrating that itā€™s not only easy to fly, but just as safe as conventional helicopters.

The Ehang 184 is small electrically powered drone that uses eight contra-rotating blades to lift it off the ground.

While it doesnā€™t offer the range of say Airbusā€™ own self-driving drone, it can travel around 10-miles or the equivalent of 23 minutes of flight.

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