The flying drones is the craze right now with so many people buying drones for recreation as well as for industrial or agriculture use. It all started with people using it for taking video or photography from an elevated position. Next came sports people using it to capture video from a high angle making for impressive video footage.
Then the US fire department used it with a Infrared camera to help detect fire hotspot during fire fighting. Then came the farmers who started to use larger drones capable of heavier pay load and with a fitted sprayer to help spray chemicals or fertiliser on their crops rather than doing the traditional crop dusting.
Now comes the single person drone which a person can fly inside the drone. This was bound to appear in a matter of time. At CES a Chinese company introduced the first single person drone capable of flying for 23 minutes at low altitude and is small enough to fit into a single car parking spot. It can fly at speeds of up to 63 mph. The technology will no doubt improve as the year goes by and it may be a reality that people may choose to buy a personal flying drone instead of a car.
The cost now is still too prohibitive for the average person at $200,000 each but with more companies jumping on this bandwagon the price will surely go down and advancement in technology will see the personal drones be more practical.
having 4 or more rotors the drone will be more stable than a helicopter and potentially safer than a helicopter. Don't be surprised to see larger personal drones flying around in the next 10 years.
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