{"id":108968,"date":"2020-06-21T09:22:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T16:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/new-vertical-takeoff-and-landing-flying-taxi-has-its-roots-in-modern-sci-fi-films"},"modified":"2020-06-21T09:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T16:22:19","slug":"new-vertical-takeoff-and-landing-flying-taxi-has-its-roots-in-modern-sci-fi-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/new-vertical-takeoff-and-landing-flying-taxi-has-its-roots-in-modern-sci-fi-films","title":{"rendered":"New Vertical Takeoff and Landing flying taxi has its roots in modern sci-fi films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aU3BvEg0gNc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/boeing-flying-car-prototype-has-successful-test-flight\">Flying automobiles<\/a> have long been a staple of science fiction\u2019s optimistic visions of tomorrow, right up there with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/jetman-dubai-jetpack-demonstration\">rocket jetpacks<\/a>, holidays on the moon, and robot butlers. And who wouldn\u2019t want to climb into a vehicle capable of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfywire\/delorean-aerospace-company-is-building-a-flying-car-that-doesnt-need-roads\">rising up into the air<\/a> above the clogged arteries of traffic experienced on most major boulevards, highways, and freeways?<\/p>\n<p>Now a lofty new air taxi being built by the Israeli startup firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanaero.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Aeronautics<\/a> hopes to cash in on those promises with its new Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) car that unites technology with <em>Jetsons<\/em>-like futuristic dreams mostly only observed in films like <em>Blade Runner<\/em>, <em>The Fifth Element<\/em>, <em>Back to the Future<\/em>, and most recently on TV in Season 3 of HBO\u2019s <em>Westworld<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-vertical-takeoff-and-landing-flying-taxi-has-its-roots-in-modern-sci-fi-films3.jpg\" class=\"\" data-expand=\"20\" alt=\"Cityhawk 2\" title=\"\"><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying automobiles have long been a staple of science fiction\u2019s optimistic visions of tomorrow, right up there with rocket jetpacks, holidays on the moon, and robot butlers. And who wouldn\u2019t want to climb into a vehicle capable of rising up into the air above the clogged arteries of traffic experienced on most major boulevards, highways, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}