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Autonomous Drone That Seats One Is a Special Kind of Crazy

• Wired

 Are you the type to leave a meeting and head not to the lobby but to the roof? Is there a chopper bearing your name or logo waiting to whisk you away to your next corporate merger? Do you have a subscription to Blade for your fortnightly jaunts to the Hamptons? Congratulations, you're in the club.

That club is about to get a little bigger.

Today at CES in Las Vegas, EHang announced what it hopes will become the next big thing in bigwig tech: a passenger-ready drone that will fly you around the city at the touch of a button in its smartphone app. The autonomous 'copter, which EHang calls 184 and says will cost between $200,000 and $300,000, can carry passengers of up to about 260 pounds for 23 minutes on a single charge.


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