{"id":20522,"date":"2016-01-07T11:48:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T19:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/this-fully-autonomous-drone-taxi-is-your-traffic-jam-dream-come-true"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:16:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:16:40","slug":"this-fully-autonomous-drone-taxi-is-your-traffic-jam-dream-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/this-fully-autonomous-drone-taxi-is-your-traffic-jam-dream-come-true","title":{"rendered":"This fully autonomous drone taxi is your traffic-jam dream come true"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-fully-autonomous-drone-taxi-is-your-traffic-jam-dream-come-true.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yup, you read that headline right. A Chinese UAV company named Ehang just unveiled the world\u2019s first autonomous flying taxi.<\/p>\n<p>The plainly-named 184 drone is essentially a giant quadcopter designed to carry a single passenger \u2014 and it needs no pilot. Inside the cockpit, there are absolutely zero controls. No joystick, no steering wheel, no buttons, switches, or control panels \u2014 just a seat and a small tablet stand.<\/p>\n<p>To fly it, the user simply hops in the cockpit, fires up the accompanying mobile app, and chooses a destination. From that point onward, you\u2019re just along for the ride. The drone takes care of all the piloting and navigation autonomously \u2014 so you supposedly don\u2019t need a pilot\u2019s license to use it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/ehang-184-drone-flying-taxi-ces-2016\/?utm_content=buffer368d8&utm_medium=socialm&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=DT-FB\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, you read that headline right. A Chinese UAV company named Ehang just unveiled the world\u2019s first autonomous flying taxi. The plainly-named 184 drone is essentially a giant quadcopter designed to carry a single passenger \u2014 and it needs no pilot. Inside the cockpit, there are absolutely zero controls. No joystick, no steering wheel, no [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20522"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68908,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20522\/revisions\/68908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}