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Re:Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars by avar on Friday December 30, 2016 @04:06PM (#13287449)
The Ehang 184 has 8 propellers, two for each of the four quad points. I'd assume the reason is safety, that it can limp to the ground with just 7.

You're wrong about a quadcopter not being able to fly with 3 rotors, see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsHryqnvyYA

That looks like it would be quite a ride with a human on-board, but would probably suck less than crashing.

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Re:Larry Page is pouring millions into flying cars by woofyman on Friday December 30, 2016 @04:28PM (#13287623)
That's fine as long as all 8 have independent batteries and flight controllers.
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