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AIN Blog: Would You Fly In This Drone?
What standards will passenger-carrying drones have to meet?
The Ehang 184 promises short-range, low-altitude autonomous transportation for willing passengers.
The Ehang 184 promises short-range, low-altitude autonomous transportation for willing passengers.

Drone technology is advancing even faster than anyone expected, and one of the latest trends is unmanned passenger-carrying vehicles. The ultimate aim of developers of these products seems to mirror the efforts of Google and car manufacturers to put driverless cars onto the roads. From a technological and ethical standpoint, driverless cars make a lot of sense; far fewer people would die in automobile crashes if properly programmed computers and not people were at the controls.

But I’m not so sure this translates into aerial vehicles. 

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Matt Thurber
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