在今年年初发布的亿航载人自动飞行器184，再次为国争光了，登上了最新一期的美国百年杂志《大众机械》(Popular Mechanics)封面，并称其为一辆货真价实的“会飞的汽车”，让人类完成了一个的美好梦想，同时《大众机械》还感慨到：“我们从1906年就开始写各种飞行汽车的故事，这次，也许会真的不同。”

《大众机械》(Popular Mechanics)是成立于1902年的美国著名科技杂志，早在59年前就已预言飞行汽车的模型，如今被来自中国的亿航实现了，令歪果仁们非常震惊。《大众机械》是这么描述：“这是一个无人驾驶飞机，就像你在几家院子通过远程控制一架无人驾驶飞机，但只有这架拥有18英尺的翼展，大约5英尺高，有一个带四点安全带和空调的驾驶舱——真可谓为人类量身对于人类的飞行梦想，这些科技界的大佬们最有资格发表看法。2006年创办Terrafugia飞行汽车公司的Carl Dietrich说：“你已经听到许多公司都在谈论‘飞行汽车指日可待’，但是五年前技术还不到位。”那现在有什么新技术？高效的电动马达，可以探测空中障碍物的传感器，以及可以创建低空交通管理系统的软件。特定的技术正在不断演进与融合，用于制造人们可真正称之为“飞行汽车”的交通工具，继发明在道路上行驶的汽车之后，飞行汽车为人们带来了更进一步的自由和便利。

2015年3月，天体物理学家及电视人Neil deGrasse Tyson在他的StarTalk节目中对Tesla电动汽车公司CEO Elon Musk进行了采访，谈到如何让私人飞机变得大众，Musk说，“必须要自动驾驶”。

Autopilot(自动驾驶仪)对于汽车来说可能是新面孔，但飞机早已采用这种方式飞行多年。一次典型飞行，如波音777的人为操作也常常仅控制飞机不到十分钟。传感器和软件可以处理一切事情直到着陆。

事实上，飞机坠毁往往都是由于人为操纵导致的。“我们都是糟糕的司机，也是糟糕的飞行员，”美国杜克大学人类和自动化实验室主任Mary Cummings说，她也是前F-18飞行员，目前正从事DARPA项目创建机器人副驾驶员，“我们越早自主研发飞行汽车，我们在道路和空中会越安全。”

亿航184是实现自动驾驶生态系统、杜绝人为失误的一次飞跃。“天空基本上是一张白纸，地面却十分复杂。一只狗可能跑上街头，有的人或许要驶入主路而不是右转。而在空中，解决这些问题变得非常简单。”

在新型飞行汽车的演变过程中，有两个重要的缩略词：V2V(车对车通信)和SAA(感知与规避)。当它们同时工作时，每辆飞行汽车都是一个雷达收发机，获取相关信息，如恶劣天气或一座新的建筑，与其他飞行器共建共享这些信息。当空中有成千上万架亿航184时，用户的路线将进入一个集体队列，当地控制中心将根据每架飞行器的电池续航时间规划一个合适的路径。亿航的联合创始人兼首席运营官严治庆告诉我们：“如果三、五年后再来看，我想这些飞行控制中心将无处不在，我们将提供软件，我们将提供技术，且我们极有可能会与政府合作，以确保对这些飞行器进行合理监控和管理。”

尽管野心总是超过监管条件，但是如果没有人试图建造一辆飞行汽车，永远都无法迫使监管者制定规则，这就是为什么亿航决定在CES上推出亿航184原型机的原因，因为它是具有里程碑意义的，它是不朽的。它促进对话、推动竞争，并最终可能迫使采取行动，让人类多年的梦想变为现实。

《大众机械》(Popular Mechanics)为我们描绘了这样一幅图景，在不久的将来，我们每天清晨打开庭院里亿航184，乘坐会自动驾驶的“飞行汽车”去上班。

英文版

English version

Later, it is possible to take the "flying car" of automatic driving to work.

Earlier this year, the launch of the 100-million-person airborne automatic vehicle 184, once again won glory for the country, boarded the cover of the latest issue of the U.S. Centennial magazine "Popular Mechanics" and called it a real "flying car", so that mankind has completed a good dream, while "Volkswagen Machinery" also felt "We've been writing stories about flying cars since 1906, and this time, maybe it's really different," he said.

Popular Mechanics, a well-known American science and technology magazine founded in 1902, had predicted the model of flying cars 59 years ago, and now it has been realized by hundreds of millions of airlines from China, which shocked crooked nuts. "Popular Machinery" says: "It's an unmanned aircraft, like you're remotely controlling an unmanned aircraft in several yards, but only this one has an 18-foot wingspan, about 5 feet high, and a cockpit with four-point seat belts and air conditioning - it's a human-sized flight for humans. They are the most qualified scientists to express their views. Carl Dietrich, who founded Terrafugia Flying Cars in 2006, said: "You've heard a lot of companies talking about'flying cars are just around the corner', but five years ago the technology wasn't in place. So what are the new technologies now? Efficient electric motors, sensors that detect obstacles in the air, and software that can create low-altitude traffic management systems. Specific technologies are evolving and merging to make vehicles that people can truly call "flying cars." Following the invention of cars that run on the road, flying cars have brought further freedom and convenience to people.

In March 2015, astrophysicist and television personality Neil de Grasse Tyson interviewed Tesla Electric Car CEO Elon Musk on his StarTalk show about how to make private jets public, and Musk said that "you have to drive automatically."

Autopilot may be a new face for cars, but airplanes have been flying this way for years. A typical flight, such as Boeing 777, often controls only less than ten minutes. Sensors and software can handle everything until they land.

In fact, aircraft crashes are often caused by human manipulation. "We're both bad drivers and bad pilots," said Mary Cummings, a former F-18 pilot and co-pilot of the DARPA project. "The sooner we develop our own flying cars, the safer we'll be on the road and in the air. "

Billion aviation 184 is a leap to achieve automatic driving ecosystem and eliminate human errors. "The sky is basically a blank sheet of paper, but the ground is very complicated. A dog may run on the street. Some may enter the main road instead of turning right. And in the air, solving these problems is very simple.

In the evolution of new flying vehicles, there are two important abbreviations: V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle communication) and SAA (perception and avoidance). When they work at the same time, each flying vehicle is a radar transceiver that captures relevant information, such as bad weather or a new building, and shares it with other aircraft. When there are tens of thousands of hundred and eighteen hundred million flights in the air, the user's route will enter a collective queue, and the local control center will plan an appropriate path based on the battery life of each aircraft. Yan Zhiqing, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Airlines Billion, told us: "If we look back in three or five years, I think these flight control centers will be ubiquitous, we will provide software, we will provide technology, and we will probably work with the government to ensure that these aircraft are properly monitored and managed."

Although ambitions always exceed regulatory requirements, if no one tries to build a flying car, regulators will never be forced to set rules, which is why Aerospace decided to launch the Aerospace 184 prototype on CES because it was a landmark and immortal. It promotes dialogue, promotes competition, and may ultimately force action to make the dreams of many years come true.

"Popular Mechanics" portrays a picture of how, in the near future, we will open the courtyard every morning to 184 airlines, flying to work in a self-driving "flying car".

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