I found many westerners comments negatively here. They worry too much about the safety and hence bad mouse such innovation. I myself also dare not to try such thing right now. But I will not hesitate to give it a clap because I know one day I or the entire human race will benefit from this.
+Yu Chen lot of them r of White European lineage Muricans who think science is of the devil.....its sad to be citizen of country that hates science.......
I believe the best use for this device, at least in the beginning, is to serve as an ambulance..Of course it should be able to carry much more payload but I don't think it will be an issue for you guys to revise the design...Nice work.
Dangerous now but what would make it a lot safer is a built in parachute system such as installed on many small planes. It was used once and saved the plane and pilot.
Kültegin Batyr i used work with many uzbek guys in korea...Some of them are really friendly. Their name is Lochen, Dima, Artur, Ulukbey, Nuru, juni... But they don't eat pork.but why it's very tasty. 😂
Shades of the future George Jetson...What next? Perhaps a small version to carry the kids to school or take the dog to the park? All kidding aside, this is an incredibly brave and innovative venture. I hope and wish the best for Ehang. Godspeed to you and well done! Let's go FAA, certify this craft.
A sweet ride make it more affordable and extra seats I will take 3 to go! Now I wonder how reliable it is in all weather conditions, and dose it come with para-shoots for safety.
Why aren't there any demonstrative videos of this aircraft in action? Is it still in development stage or just not safe enough to fly with a human in it?
It's such an innovative product for sure, yeah the future is here indeed. Then Safety should be the highest priority when building such thing for human being transportation. The total automated control of the drone isn't a good idea either, so they should at least, as an aircraft add the ability to control the takeoff and the landing and leave the rest to the drone. But this is just the beginning hope they will implement it later, with improved battery life at an affordable price tag. :)
This is only the first iteration of what the near future of autonomous flying looks like. What amazes me is the shallow comments of people incapable of perceiving the future of this vehicle. Reminds me of Niel Armstrong's negative comments about Elon Musk and look at what happened. I really wish Ehang all the very best and hope they can rapidly find a big player to partner with. They should make every effort to partner with the likes of BMW, Apple, Google, Tesla or even Uber! Uber has access to all the whiz kids at Carnegie Mellon Uni. If I were Ehang, I'd find a major player to partner with now.
The Ehang 184 is our best hope for the personal manned flying drone/car. since its already built and does fly (although not officially) . The reason why this Chinese based outfit is so important is because theyre chinese based. If the Ehang 184 gets its full chinese aviation licesnses and approvals it would make the US look so behind the times. Granted here in the US the problem isnt building such a thing rather the problem is all the goverment/state and FAA regulation red tap that would get in the way. currently it takes no less than 12 years for a new aircraft to go thru all the red-tape tests protoypes etc before getting final approval for sales. look no further than the new Honda Jet and Cirrus Jet to see what process they had to go thru. And all that cost millions. its not a fast process at all. and thats the first and major problem. bottom line the Gov is terrified of the idea of the average person flying about in an aircraft. Much of it is purely racist as well. as those very same institutions have absolutely no problem with any white teenager getting a Jr. pilots licesnse and flying around in cessna 152's. But one do have to admit, its one thing people with cars, its another with people flying since any crash means falling to the ground or crashing into a building. still. i hope the day will come, i just think that day will be 30 years from now.
I don't think I want all those blades spinning at chest height. What happens when you have a "hard" landing and they start fly off in bits in all directions? Better to mount the blades above the chassis.
There will be no pilot control of the craft, its all GPS controlled..... bad idea. They will get cheaper and better, this is a great step in the right direction.
+Nour Gaser well it's the principles are a helicopter. Although if you have engine failure in helicopter you can auto-rotate to safety etc etc. As soon as 1 set of rotors fail, the stability of that thing is gonna go out the window haha plus the fact that the rotors are literally right beside you is a little nerve racking.
Conor Hildebrandt holy crap, I was just comparing it to helicopters. Flying a helicopter, you need a license and you are always trained for the best and know what to do in an emergency. On the other hand, if anything goes wrong with the drone... You're a goner.
this might change the face of transportation. we not only need land roads, we need designated air roads, air traffic lights, air traffic police, everything will change. like in the movies...
another problem landing!, In a city like new york you can land like in the streets and It can't fly further than like 16km so the battery has to be inproved.
Blades open to weather and slicing people, batteries failing leaving people plummeting to their deaths in various places, hmmm great looking but not there yet for sure.
This vehicle seems impossible to me. And I think it is. A multi rotor is not a particularly efficient form of transportation so it needs either a new battery technology that is way better than the current by orders of magnitude or gigantic batteries that will end up increasing the device weight making efficiency drop even more. So, I'm not buying into this, way ahead of its time, once we have better batteries you will see dozens of devices as well as reputable manufacturers come up to the plate.
+Freddy Bell who would want to fly a 23 minutes air craft? what if you have any kind of emergency and for instance can't land where you have planned to? Would 23 minutes be enough? I don't think so
+NAGIUXS of course they can get into it...they wouldn't of designed it that way and showed I off at ces if they couldn't and I agree the exposed rotors are stupid but the point is its not even meant for practical uses its meant for recreation and one of the benefits of this is it can fold up its arms and be stored in a garage and that tilt rotor design from avatar is silly the cabin would sway to much as it decelerated
+Freddy Bell By the way, they never flew a human being, testing has only been conducted very close to the ground, the video, is well just CGI if you did not notice.
+Nusm4 True. I found out later though another review that overriding the autonomous capabilities was not available. I'm sure Google, Uber, and Bezos are looking at this...
Not the same. A helicopter's use of a single blade requires it to be larger and take up more space per payload requiring the need for more open space landing. This compact design would make it much easier to control and land in much tighter spaces. Also, four small blades requires less energy, takes less space and is less dangerous than one huge one.
Cool drone. Needs simpler interface though. Enter the address and fly. Look at how gps'es work. Not sure I would fly one if its made with china batteries. Probably fake capacity :)
They need to enhance the range and battery life. 20 minutes flying time and 2 hours recharging is an absolute joke. Maybe Elon Musk and the people from Uber should invest. This will be great but it's not there yet.
Likely still to be a immature technology. But reducing the $$ spend on roads ripping through countrysides and nature reserves, and put those money into development of personal safe human flight would be the next step.
I doubt that will ever be allowed in Western skies; just getting in and out of that thing would be dangerous enough with the blades so low and during landing if a person comes close, they're going to get slice up into pieces. Landing on slightly uneven ground could easily shatter the blades and heck, what happens if there's already a micro-fracture in a blade that no one picks up and while in flight the flimsy looking blade shatters into pieces, how can it possibly land safely without going completely haywire? I doubt it's going to have a parachute attached, and besides, how many batteries can they add to that to get some decent flight time as the batteries are going to be far heavier than the person. Interesting concept though, just hate blades. I'd much rather have giant blades hidden in the centre that blow out powerful amounts of vent controlled air out of those 4 cross arms so that no blades are exposed, obviously not possible at the moment.
+Tamim Azemy It is the largest fucking market on the Earth. Chinese companies compete on a worldwide scale. CES is pretty much where the marketing and the consumers meet so it is the biggest place to get attention. I am sure they tested it China before bringing it to Las Vegas.
I don't think this thing actually works. It's a concept vehicle with no basis in reality. Most of the footage is CG, and the real footage there is no person visible inside. They cut from a person crawling inside to a CG version flying over a city. Smells like BS to me.
+Cyril Diaz If these are owned by companies, not individual citizens, they can use the same flight plans created for commercial helicopters. Modify the FAA rules slightly. Uber should invest.
Dream on folks. This is ridiculous. The FAA will never let this happen. One accident and this company dissapears.The chinese can barely fucking drive in North America. And we are going to let them fly above us in a 500lb. plus arial machine. Let's not mention air traffic control systems and these things not smashing into each other. The FAA wants recreational and commercial users that have drones between .5-50 lbs. to register with them. And you all think this is a great idea. NO...A helicopter with a trained pilot is a good idea. This will not fly. But many investors will get scammed with this great idea. Sweet way to lose money and energy.
I found many westerners comments negatively here. They worry too much about the safety and hence bad mouse such innovation. I myself also dare not to try such thing right now. But I will not hesitate to give it a clap because I know one day I or the entire human race will benefit from this.
+Yu Chen
lot of them r of White European lineage Muricans who think science is of the devil.....its sad to be citizen of country that hates science.......
+TazKidNoah racist much?
Roscoe Odneal
so r telling me that my country didnt deny global warming?(by lobbyists?)
Mind blowing!!! All the hype & talk & debate of a flying car. Here it is, a simple concept, a flying drone!
+Piku Saha
People can't even drive in two demensions. This is a disaster waiting to happen.
+mingoucz
Until the GPS or SAT goes down then you'd better know how to fly by wire.
can't wait until the air out I would love to have it
What is music?
I believe the best use for this device, at least in the beginning, is to serve as an ambulance..Of course it should be able to carry much more payload but I don't think it will be an issue for you guys to revise the design...Nice work.
When the gravity amplifier is perfected this will be a relic.
Awesome! But does it have a flip mode button?
Dangerous now but what would make it a lot safer is a built in parachute system such as installed on many small planes. It was used once and saved the plane and pilot.
I think the robotic suitcase would pair well with this aircraft with no steering wheel.
Human input and enjoyment is so last week!
How safe can it fly in the wind speed that's increasing from 10 to 66 miles per hour or with heavy rains?
Game changer. If they can work out air space use it will change how we do our daily commute.
future has came!
Хамаг Монгол yeah we will make jinghis khaan proud wir our future horses right ?
Kültegin Batyr u r absolutely from Turkey!
Хамаг Монгол hahahaah :D it was a prank man dont feed the troll
Im Uzbekh Turkmen from germany :D
Horse milk (Kumyz) is thaaa best
Kültegin Batyr i used work with many uzbek guys in korea...Some of them are really friendly. Their name is Lochen, Dima, Artur, Ulukbey, Nuru, juni... But they don't eat pork.but why it's very tasty. 😂
Хамаг Монгол why we dont eat pork ? :D they say you are what you eat We usually eat horse and we dont eat pork because we are not :D
Shades of the future George Jetson...What next? Perhaps a small version to carry the kids to school or take the dog to the park? All kidding aside, this is an incredibly brave and innovative venture. I hope and wish the best for Ehang. Godspeed to you and well done! Let's go FAA, certify this craft.
and by the time such a transportation system is designed and implemented, will this tech be obsolete? will the system catch up as fast as tech?
A sweet ride make it more affordable and extra seats I will take 3 to go! Now I wonder how reliable it is in all weather conditions, and dose it come with para-shoots for safety.
Why aren't there any demonstrative videos of this aircraft in action? Is it still in development stage or just not safe enough to fly with a human in it?
in the wrong hands, in the wrong use: imagine a mass production of 100s of these, with a mounted weaponry. (?star wars?)
Chinese, expert of drones.
It's such an innovative product for sure, yeah the future is here indeed. Then Safety should be the highest priority when building such thing for human being transportation. The total automated control of the drone isn't a good idea either, so they should at least, as an aircraft add the ability to control the takeoff and the landing and leave the rest to the drone. But this is just the beginning hope they will implement it later, with improved battery life at an affordable price tag. :)
Mass Effect here I come.
This is only the first iteration of what the near future of autonomous flying looks like. What amazes me is the shallow comments of people incapable of perceiving the future of this vehicle. Reminds me of Niel Armstrong's negative comments about Elon Musk and look at what happened. I really wish Ehang all the very best and hope they can rapidly find a big player to partner with. They should make every effort to partner with the likes of BMW, Apple, Google, Tesla or even Uber! Uber has access to all the whiz kids at Carnegie Mellon Uni. If I were Ehang, I'd find a major player to partner with now.
what is the material of the drone?
What's the battery life on this thing?
How long can it stay air-born? Battery type??
this changes every. fucking. thing. i want. i need.
And it begins... #techbirth #flyingcars
Remember when we used to say "in the future, cars will fly"? Yea... I think our future is here. :)
Its not a car though.
The Ehang 184 is our best hope for the personal manned flying drone/car. since its already built and does fly (although not officially) . The reason why this Chinese based outfit is so important is because theyre chinese based. If the Ehang 184 gets its full chinese aviation licesnses and approvals it would make the US look so behind the times. Granted here in the US the problem isnt building such a thing rather the problem is all the goverment/state and FAA regulation red tap that would get in the way. currently it takes no less than 12 years for a new aircraft to go thru all the red-tape tests protoypes etc before getting final approval for sales. look no further than the new Honda Jet and Cirrus Jet to see what process they had to go thru. And all that cost millions. its not a fast process at all. and thats the first and major problem. bottom line the Gov is terrified of the idea of the average person flying about in an aircraft. Much of it is purely racist as well. as those very same institutions have absolutely no problem with any white teenager getting a Jr. pilots licesnse and flying around in cessna 152's. But one do have to admit, its one thing people with cars, its another with people flying since any crash means falling to the ground or crashing into a building. still. i hope the day will come, i just think that day will be 30 years from now.
Why is uber hiring Nasa guys .www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-06/uber-hires-veteran-nasa-engineer-to-develop-flying-cars
Are these legal in uk ?
I don't think I want all those blades spinning at chest height. What happens when you have a "hard" landing and they start fly off in bits in all directions? Better to mount the blades above the chassis.
There will be no pilot control of the craft, its all GPS controlled..... bad idea. They will get cheaper and better, this is a great step in the right direction.
what happens if there is a sudden weather change? heavy rain and wind?... what happens when one of the motor fails?...
No physical flight controls at all? Yah, I don't think so haha I would wanna fly this thing. It looks awesome.
This is just a prototype, you know!
+Nour Gaser yah, fair enough. I hope they put flight controls. And bring the price down lol
Other than controlling it, there's something about it that's not making me feel secure... Meh. And the price will go down.. Eventually lol
+Nour Gaser well it's the principles are a helicopter. Although if you have engine failure in helicopter you can auto-rotate to safety etc etc. As soon as 1 set of rotors fail, the stability of that thing is gonna go out the window haha plus the fact that the rotors are literally right beside you is a little nerve racking.
Conor Hildebrandt holy crap, I was just comparing it to helicopters. Flying a helicopter, you need a license and you are always trained for the best and know what to do in an emergency. On the other hand, if anything goes wrong with the drone... You're a goner.
The blades in all drones must be safely covered in a safety casing by the regulators and authorities by law!
I guess the flying "car" is here? :D
you can only ride this for ten miles and then it lands according to cbs news
こういうのって事故起こした時はどうするんですかね？
hope they make it legal for the future of flying cars :)
this might change the face of transportation. we not only need land roads, we need designated air roads, air traffic lights, air traffic police, everything will change. like in the movies...
Roads? where we're going we dont need roads. 😝
another problem landing!, In a city like new york you can land like in the streets and It can't fly further than like 16km so the battery has to be inproved.
With improved battery, this is the solution to traffic jam.............. People will live in tower buildings. Open the window and go to work.
Hell f****** yes they will!!!!!! :D
+Lei Yan until one day the battery dies or malfunctions and theres a drone on the ground with a crushed up guy in it.
+GanonSlayer car accidents happen every minute of the drone only crashes once that would get rid of human error and save life's
+Lei Yan There will be air traffic jams. As too many of these would need a route system. Generating again traffic.
+GanonSlayer they used to say same about cars ..... :)
Shit this is Bad Ass✌💪👌
Great something new to SHOOT out the sky other than them smaller versions.
+TDDC TDDC Easy skeet practice.
Uh, I wanna see it in service for a few years first....I hear Chinese made products are exactly up to standards (sometimes).
Western countries start to worry , when China start to be more innovative .
How much is this star wars type vehicle
not safety in around drone for the people to close and easy to crash, hope they make next version for build the protector of propeller
quadcopter it is say yoda, not drone. drones are unmanned.
Then again, there really is no driver :P
Blades open to weather and slicing people, batteries failing leaving people plummeting to their deaths in various places, hmmm great looking but not there yet for sure.
Got a parachute, just in case?
I don't think you'd be able to make it through the propellers. Maybe an aircraft parachute like the Cirrus planes.
+Indigo Colossus Yes, that what I meant! Do they call it ballistic parachute or something?
This vehicle seems impossible to me. And I think it is. A multi rotor is not a particularly efficient form of transportation so it needs either a new battery technology that is way better than the current by orders of magnitude or gigantic batteries that will end up increasing the device weight making efficiency drop even more. So, I'm not buying into this, way ahead of its time, once we have better batteries you will see dozens of devices as well as reputable manufacturers come up to the plate.
Did you not watch the video? It flies. But it only flies for 10 miles.
+Freddy Bell who would want to fly a 23 minutes air craft? what if you have any kind of emergency and for instance can't land where you have planned to? Would 23 minutes be enough? I don't think so
+Abraham Saenz most hospitals are less than 10 miles away so yeah it would be enough.
+NAGIUXS of course they can get into it...they wouldn't of designed it that way and showed I off at ces if they couldn't and I agree the exposed rotors are stupid but the point is its not even meant for practical uses its meant for recreation and one of the benefits of this is it can fold up its arms and be stored in a garage and that tilt rotor design from avatar is silly the cabin would sway to much as it decelerated
+Freddy Bell By the way, they never flew a human being, testing has only been conducted very close to the ground, the video, is well just CGI if you did not notice.
Odd. I thought that a drone was an unpiloted aircraft... Go Figure
+MillCityJam There is this slight difference between a passenger and a pilot.
+Nusm4 True. I found out later though another review that overriding the autonomous capabilities was not available. I'm sure Google, Uber, and Bezos are looking at this...
Can you say "Helicopter"?
Not the same. A helicopter's use of a single blade requires it to be larger and take up more space per payload requiring the need for more open space landing. This compact design would make it much easier to control and land in much tighter spaces. Also, four small blades requires less energy, takes less space and is less dangerous than one huge one.
gnexus75 Ah, so it's economical, too as well as aesthetically pleasing.
No stick = Big Mistake
so it doesn't work...or you'd see it working....
Cool drone. Needs simpler interface though. Enter the address and fly. Look at how gps'es work. Not sure I would fly one if its made with china batteries. Probably fake capacity :)
Encore mieux que tesla motors, l'avenir du transport est dans les airs
They need to enhance the range and battery life. 20 minutes flying time and 2 hours recharging is an absolute joke. Maybe Elon Musk and the people from Uber should invest. This will be great but it's not there yet.
Likely still to be a immature technology. But reducing the $$ spend on roads ripping through countrysides and nature reserves, and put those money into development of personal safe human flight would be the next step.
oh, asians .They can do anything.
I doubt that will ever be allowed in Western skies; just getting in and out of that thing would be dangerous enough with the blades so low and during landing if a person comes close, they're going to get slice up into pieces.
Landing on slightly uneven ground could easily shatter the blades and heck, what happens if there's already a micro-fracture in a blade that no one picks up and while in flight the flimsy looking blade shatters into pieces, how can it possibly land safely without going completely haywire? I doubt it's going to have a parachute attached, and besides, how many batteries can they add to that to get some decent flight time as the batteries are going to be far heavier than the person.
Interesting concept though, just hate blades. I'd much rather have giant blades hidden in the centre that blow out powerful amounts of vent controlled air out of those 4 cross arms so that no blades are exposed, obviously not possible at the moment.
Would be awesome to hover over traffic jams, but then again I only want myself to have it and no one else, could be dangerous if everyone had one.
No if it used googles self driving car technology.
220 lbs max? well that's 64% of western population out of the window then.
Stupids can't even put protections on those blades.
Why always US? It is made in China, so there has to be first a test. Than in the other country. It is always US. That's a bit annoying.
+Tamim Azemy It is the largest fucking market on the Earth. Chinese companies compete on a worldwide scale. CES is pretty much where the marketing and the consumers meet so it is the biggest place to get attention. I am sure they tested it China before bringing it to Las Vegas.
+chillgangsta Okay, Thanks!
I don't think this thing actually works. It's a concept vehicle with no basis in reality. Most of the footage is CG, and the real footage there is no person visible inside. They cut from a person crawling inside to a CG version flying over a city. Smells like BS to me.
I need one for hunting (:
mexicans' new answer to beating trump's new wall? 😅
pr0bIem arises in air traffic h0w can yu cann0t enc0unter crashed if there are 1000 dr0ne car in the air??
+Cyril Diaz If these are owned by companies, not individual citizens, they can use the same flight plans created for commercial helicopters. Modify the FAA rules slightly.
Uber should invest.
This cost 10k$ to produce lol.
+Rem production isn't the only cost
made in china wow.
this is acualy great now people wont just crash into your house now they will even fall from sky hov cool is this?
Dream on folks. This is ridiculous. The FAA will never let this happen. One accident and this company dissapears.The chinese can barely fucking drive in North America.
And we are going to let them fly above us in a 500lb. plus arial machine. Let's not mention air traffic control systems and these things not smashing into each other.
The FAA wants recreational and commercial users that have drones between .5-50 lbs. to register with them. And you all think this is a great idea. NO...A helicopter with a trained pilot is a good idea. This will not fly. But many investors will get scammed with this great idea. Sweet way to lose money and energy.
Made in china ? mmmmm...
+Fabio Campana What isn't made in China?
+Fabio Campana LOL. Being a mechanic I've seen Chicom bearings fail often. No way in hell I'd ride in that thing!!
+phrygiandan Thanks Einstein.
+chillgangsta Keine Ursache
+American Patriot And you're a useless tool. LOL.