{"id":34495,"date":"2017-02-13T14:24:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T22:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/up-up-and-away-passenger-carrying-drone-to-fly-in-dubai"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:31:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:31:17","slug":"up-up-and-away-passenger-carrying-drone-to-fly-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/up-up-and-away-passenger-carrying-drone-to-fly-in-dubai","title":{"rendered":"Up, up and away: Passenger-carrying drone to fly in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/up-up-and-away-passenger-carrying-drone-to-fly-in-dubai.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 Up, up and away: Dubai hopes to have a passenger-carrying drone regularly buzzing through the skyline of this futuristic city-state in July.<\/p>\n<p>The arrival of the Chinese-made EHang 184 \u2014 which already has had its flying debut over Dubai\u2019s iconic, sail-shaped Burj al-Arab skyscraper hotel \u2014 comes as the Emirati city also has partnered with other cutting-edge technology companies, including Hyperloop One.<\/p>\n<p>The question is whether the egg-shaped, four-legged craft will really take off as a transportation alternative in this car-clogged city already home to the world\u2019s longest driverless metro line.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/d53625cc57124bf992e934522d4c1d6e\">https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/d53625cc57124bf992e934522d4c1d6e<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) \u2014 Up, up and away: Dubai hopes to have a passenger-carrying drone regularly buzzing through the skyline of this futuristic city-state in July. The arrival of the Chinese-made EHang 184 \u2014 which already has had its flying debut over Dubai\u2019s iconic, sail-shaped Burj al-Arab skyscraper hotel \u2014 comes as the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34495","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58751,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34495\/revisions\/58751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}