Original title: This Chinese company that makes “air taxis” plans to go public in the US

Reference News Network reported on November 11. A November 5 report on the Hong Kong Asia Times website began with a picture of the future for readers: You have a business meeting in half an hour. The only problem is that you need to cross Guangzhou city and the traffic is very congested. Instead of solving the congestion problem, you hopped in a self-driving flying taxi — and voila! You arrived on time and left a deep impression on the boss!

According to the report, you may think this technology is still far away, but Ehang Intelligence, a Chinese company that makes manned autonomous vehicles, has submitted written documents to the US Securities and Exchange Commission to apply for an initial public offering, and is preparing toNASDAQIt went public and raised 100 million US dollars (1 US dollar is about 6.99 yuan) in capital.

The report quoted reports from the US “Tipping Point” website as saying that the company has carried out thousands of test flights over the years and is preparing to launch the world's first autonomous air taxi service, which it hopes will be in the next few months.

The company's main aircraft is a 16-rotor two-seater Yahang 216. Ehang 216 was first released in February 2018. Since then, the company has carried out manned and autonomous driving test flights.

Profile picture: Ehang 216 debuted at the China Business Aviation Show. (Xinhua News Agency)