China gives Ehang the first industry approval for fully autonomous passenger-carrying air taxis::Ehang shares have nearly doubled in price this year, before trading was temporarily halted Monday pending a significant announcement.

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Nope. Not ever will I ride in an autonomous air taxi. I’ll never need to be somewhere fast enough that death is a major possibility.

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Do they have many non-autonomous passenger carrying air taxis…? Helicopters aren’t exactly day to day transport but now you want to skip straight to filling the skies with unmanned vehicles?

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“What could possibly go wrong?” Jeremy Clarkson

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All my brain thinks is: “great, more surveillance cameras, and in the sky now…”

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…and you think noise pollution is bad now? Just you wait.

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I mean, it beats moderate intensity artillery shelling…

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