Science News Roundup: Passenger drone

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Philippine inventor aims to cut travel times with passenger drone

A Philippine inventor has unveiled what he calls the flying sports car that represents the future of transport, riding it out of a warehouse toward a cheering crowd, leaving a cloud of dust in his wake. Former dancer and camera operator Kyxz Mendiola flew and hovered for a few minutes in a single-passenger contraption powered by the "multicopter" technology commonly used in small unmanned drones.