Wow! A drone you can ride in!!!

ewgf · January 2016

Quote "On Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show, Chinese drone manufacturer EHang unveiled the EHang 184, the first fully electric autonomous aerial vehicle capable of carrying one passenger up to 220 pounds over short distances. Travel is controlled mostly by an onboard tablet inside the pod-like cockpit—a passenger selects their flight destination, and then relaxes in the airborne vehicle’s air-conditioned cabin as the 184 takes off, flies, and lands on its own.

According to company spokespeople showing off the drone at this year’s CES in Las Vegas, 100 successful, manned test flights have already happened in the EHang 184.

The aerial vehicle is certainly something to behold. It’s a four-armed, eight-rotor drone, standing 5 feet tall and weighing in at 440 pounds. The drone has gull-wing doors for passengers, and a trunk for luggage. The arms fold up, allowing for easy parking next to your boss’s BMW convertible. The EHang 184’s battery, which takes between two and four hours to charge, is good enough for a 23-minute flight at a cheetah-like 62 miles per hour."

Source: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/254781

For more information (and to buy me one, go on, you know you want to!), see:

http://www.ehang.com/ehang184

beanz · January 2016

So you can now just hover outside your neighbors window and whack off real time without the need for a cam and SDcard.

joefish · January 2016

And if he complains, you just decend and shred him into little chunks to feed all the neighbourhood cats.

dm_boozefreek · January 2016

It's all well and good til' the drunken redneck next door has 13 bottles of PBR, and gets his shotgun out for some drone target practice :))

beanz · January 2016

Them rednecks tend to be the ones targeted by aliens for anal probing so it's seems reasonable they'd want to shoot this thing down if they spotted it.

dm_boozefreek · January 2016

I'm still waiting for the stories of Ebay, Amazon, Fed-Ex, regular mail whatever drones being shot down. Of course they actually have to get that pipe dream into reality first, but I bet if they do it, all kinds of crazy sh*t is gonna happen.

Man I'd be tempted to shoot one down myself just to see what it was carrying?

Call me old fashioned but I'd like my packages to continue being delivered by a human :))

beanz · January 2016

Yes I prefer my package to be handled by a human too...

guesser · January 2016

Scottie_uk · January 2016

dm_boozefreek wrote: »

I'm still waiting for the stories of Ebay, Amazon, Fed-Ex, regular mail whatever drones being shot down. Of course they actually have to get that pipe dream into reality first, but I bet if they do it, all kinds of crazy sh*t is gonna happen.

Man I'd be tempted to shoot one down myself just to see what it was carrying?

Call me old fashioned but I'd like my packages to continue being delivered by a human :))

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dm_boozefreek · January 2016

:)) :)) :)) =))

def chris · January 2016

can't see these taking off...

dm_boozefreek · January 2016

Badoom tish!!!

Luny · January 2016

Groan. If they do take of there is gonna be a hell off a lot of deaths.

guesser · January 2016

There'd certainly be a lot of court cases and fines. There's no way in a million years these will ever be legal.

dm_boozefreek · January 2016

I'd fly one if it meant staying off the roads where all the f**king idiots are ;)

JuanF. Ramirez · January 2016

When I watched the pic I thought it was another Uncle Clive's new invention! :D

MatGubbins · January 2016

Ah, the Sinclair C15 finally exists!

MatGubbins · January 2016

Probably need a pilot license and brown trousers to fly that. Hope it's not as dodgy as those flaming skateboards.
Then there'll be the owners that will pimp them out with blue underlights and megabass speakers in the back, not that you'd hear anything with the rotor noise.

1024MAK · January 2016

And that's different from the pimped up cars with "modified" exhaust systems and loud music systems?

ewgf · January 2016

Yeah, it's impractical, unsafe, and will never be legal for flying over a city. Plus you couldn't leave it parked outside your place of work or it'd get stolen. But it's something to daydream about, when (like most of us) you're stuck in your lousy, badly paying job, you can dream of flying home in your drone, way above the thousands of people stuck in the gridlocked rush hour, and the packed trains and buses.

Saboteur · January 2016

That bad boy's gonna take some charging.

And why o why would u want to control it from your tablet - surely direct controls are safer ??

On the plus side, cutting the lawn and trimming trees will seem a whole lot more exciting :)

guesser · January 2016

Saboteur wrote: »

And why o why would u want to control it from your tablet - surely direct controls are safer ??

Because multirotors are practically unflyable to start with. I'm not sure why people think they would be able to do a better job of crashing it than the computer... The main safety problem is not with the flying part, it's the crashing part which a human wouldn't be able to do any more about than the computer.

ewgf · January 2016

Yep. The human body being a squelchy mass of flesh, blood, and easily breakable bones is a total git alright. Still, maybe Sheldon Cooper is right, and the singularity (when we can transfer human consciousness into a machine) will happen in our lifetimes. That way, even if your android body gets damaged, you just replace the limb/torso/head/whatever and everything's fine again.

Mind you, if we all get android bodies, then I'll lose my current title of best looking man at WOS!

1024MAK · January 2016

And...?

guesser · January 2016

If anyone finds a way to upload human consciousnesses into a computer DON'T tell ewgf... The mechanical limits on finger speed are the only thing that limits his forum posting output, just imagine the consequences of a direct network connection to his conciousness! ;)

Scottie_uk · January 2016

ewgf wrote: »

Yep. The human body being a squelchy mass of flesh, blood, and easily breakable bones is a total git alright. Still, maybe Sheldon Cooper is right, and the singularity (when we can transfer human consciousness into a machine) will happen in our lifetimes. That way, even if your android body gets damaged, you just replace the limb/torso/head/whatever and everything's fine again.

Mind you, if we all get android bodies, then I'll lose my current title of best looking man at WOS!

Then what is life?

That's not living, alright?

Saboteur · January 2016

guesser wrote: »

Saboteur wrote: »

And why o why would u want to control it from your tablet - surely direct controls are safer ??

Because multirotors are practically unflyable to start with. I'm not sure why people think they would be able to do a better job of crashing it than the computer... The main safety problem is not with the flying part, it's the crashing part which a human wouldn't be able to do any more about than the computer.

Wasn`t what i was really getting at, i meant introducing another point of failure by relying on a wireless or bluetooth connection. However, i agree that controlling a quad copter relies on a lot of computing power linked to a lot of sensors.

guesser · January 2016

I assume the tablet screen would just be an interface to tell the flight computer where to go, it wouldn't be running the autopilot.
It's all moot because this thing will never be allowed to fly. It's a bullshit concept vehicle so there's no point over analysing things...

ewgf · January 2016

guesser wrote: »

If anyone finds a way to upload human consciousnesses into a computer DON'T tell ewgf... The mechanical limits on finger speed are the only thing that limits his forum posting output, just imagine the consequences of a direct network connection to his conciousness! ;)

Right, that's it - when I'm a computer program (albeit a sentient one), then I'm going to devote my resources to doing *bad* things yo you - such as crashing your car, sending 50,000 volts into your toaster when you're touching it, making your TV blow up, adding you to the members list of a BNP website and then 'leaking' the members list, etc. If I'm feeling really evil, I'll change your WOS sig to read "I quite like karingal", you will *never* live it down! Mwah hah hah!

Scottie_uk wrote: »

Then what is life?

That's not living, alright?

Isn't that almost a song from Auf Weidershen Pet? :)

guesser · January 2016

You'll have a job... My car has a carburetor and no power steering. You won't even be able to put the windows up and down :p
There's also no way in hell a consumer appliance is ever getting network access as I think I've made more than clear in the past :D

ewgf · January 2016

guesser wrote: »

You'll have a job... My car has a carburetor and no power steering. You won't even be able to put the windows up and down :p
There's also no way in hell a consumer appliance is ever getting network access as I think I've made more than clear in the past :D

A computer could still hack your car, or a toaster or anything at all, I know because they can in the crap, low budget films that they put on cable at night, and film makers would never lie to us.

Wow! A drone you can ride in!!!

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