{"id":94931,"date":"2016-06-20T15:05:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T13:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=94931"},"modified":"2016-06-20T15:06:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T13:06:46","slug":"flying-robot-taxis-to-begin-trials-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/94931-flying-robot-taxis-to-begin-trials-this-year","title":{"rendered":"Flying robot taxis to begin trials this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A drone that can transport humans has been given the go-ahead to carry out trials in the US, reports <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/2016\/06\/08\/flying-robot-taxi-to-start-trials-in-las-vegas\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Telegraph<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Ehang 184, a small single-person helicopter, will begin service in Las Vegas later this year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rather than one large rotor\u00a0above the body, the &#8216;taxi drone&#8217; has four rotors underneath the body, resembling a remote control drone,&#8221; continues the report.<\/p>\n<p>A two-hour charge will keep the drone flying for 23 minutes at sea level with passengers and luggage weighing up to 100kg. Higher altitudes will deplete the charge much faster.<\/p>\n<p>Ehang hopes to incorporate the new drone into Nevada&#8217;s transportation system, although with unmanned drones being a hot-topic of debate in the US, they may face stiff opposition.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Amazing and embarrassing E3 moments\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/93831-amazing-and-embarrassing-e3-moments.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazing and embarrassing E3 moments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to AMD Radeon RX 480 4K benchmark leaked \u2013 faster than a GeForce GTX 980\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/94893-amd-radeon-rx-480-4k-benchmark-leaked-faster-than-a-geforce-gtx-980.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">AMD Radeon RX 480 4K benchmark leaked \u2013 faster than a GeForce GTX 980<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Everything that happened at Bethesda\u2019s E3 conference: Announcements, trailers and more\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/94861-everything-that-happened-at-bethesdas-e3-conference-announcements-trailers-and-more-wip.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">at happened at Bethesda\u2019s E3 conference: Announce<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A drone that can transport humans has been given the go ahead to carry out trials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":94507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585],"tags":[31,19415,19417,19303,19413],"class_list":["post-94931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-flying","tag-las-vegas","tag-motoring","tag-taxi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95017,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94931\/revisions\/95017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}