The worlds first self flying commercial taxi car is called the Ehang 184 MegaDrone and it has been seen this year at CES 2016. The MegaDrone allows users to simply climb in and take to the sky's without having to pilot the flying drone and just having to enter your destination on a tablet with an on-board app.
Created by Chinese company EHang the drone is set to go into commercial use in China in the next few months and they have also asked the FAA for licences to fly in the USA.
These innovative drone products developed by EHang can be widely adopted in different industries including; filming，landscape mapping, news gathering, energy resource survey, search & rescue, investigation & monitoring, logistics and so on.
Founded in April, 2014, EHang’s headquarters are located in Guangzhou, China. Including other branches in Beijing, Shanghai and San Francisco, EHang has over 150 employees. The founding team members are from top institutions, such as Tsinghua University, Duke University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology & University of California, Los Angeles. Several high level managerial talents have also joined EHang from international listed companies including 21Vianet Group, Lenovo & Microsoft, making it a dream company aiming to innovate the future.
Taking the advantages of simple, smart and Internet connectability, EHang’s smart drone products GHOSTDRONE has been sold to 70 countries and areas across the world. Within 16 months EHang raised a $10 million series A and $42 million series B, resulting in 100x growth in valuation, and becoming the fastest growing & greatest potential dark horse in the drone industry. EHang was also rated one of the top 50 innovative Chinese companies in 2014 by Fast Company business magazine and won Best Drone award at CES 2015. As the new era of intelligence is coming, EHang will strive to show the power of “Made in China”to the world.
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