EHang Completes First Autonomous Aerial Vehicle Passenger-carrying Demo Flight in Jilin, China
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Friday, September 6, 2019
CHANGCHUN, China, Sept. 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --EHang, the world's leading autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) technology platform company, announced today that it had performed the first passenger-carrying AAV demonstration flight at the 2019 Northeast Asia Expo, heldfrom August 23-27 in the capital city of China's Jilin province, Changchun.
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- CHANGCHUN, China, Sept. 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --EHang, the world's leading autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) technology platform company, announced today that it had performed the first passenger-carrying AAV demonstration flight at the 2019 Northeast Asia Expo, heldfrom August 23-27 in the capital city of China's Jilin province, Changchun.
- The success of these passenger-carrying autonomous flights demonstrates that pilotless flying taxis are not a dream of the future, but here today.
- EHang's AAVs have also performed multiple passenger-carrying autonomous flight demonstrations in Austria, the Netherlands, and Qatar, among other countries.
- Its one-seater model EHang 184, the world's first passenger-grade AAV, was unveiled at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.