{"id":34514,"date":"2017-02-14T05:42:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T13:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/dubai-aims-to-launch-hover-taxi"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:31:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:31:11","slug":"dubai-aims-to-launch-hover-taxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/dubai-aims-to-launch-hover-taxi","title":{"rendered":"Dubai aims to launch hover-taxi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dubai-aims-to-launch-hover-taxi.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dubai has tested a Chinese prototype of a self-driving hover-taxi, its transport authority said on Monday, with the aim of introducing the aerial vehicle in the emirate by July.<\/p>\n<p>The test of the one-man electric vehicle comes as the city state in the United Arab Emirates seeks to ensure a quarter of its means of transport are self-driving by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>The EHang 184 can travel on a programmed course at 100 kilometres an hour (60 mph) at an altitude of 300 metres (1,000 feet), the authority said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-02-passenger-carrying-drone-dubai.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;02-passenger-carrying-drone-dubai.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai has tested a Chinese prototype of a self-driving hover-taxi, its transport authority said on Monday, with the aim of introducing the aerial vehicle in the emirate by July. The test of the one-man electric vehicle comes as the city state in the United Arab Emirates seeks to ensure a quarter of its means of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34514","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34514"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58741,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34514\/revisions\/58741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}