{"id":109956,"date":"2020-07-14T14:07:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T21:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/the-future-of-driving-delorean-hovercraft-lets-you-cruise-on-both-land-and-water"},"modified":"2020-07-14T14:07:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T21:07:15","slug":"the-future-of-driving-delorean-hovercraft-lets-you-cruise-on-both-land-and-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/the-future-of-driving-delorean-hovercraft-lets-you-cruise-on-both-land-and-water","title":{"rendered":"The future of driving: DeLorean hovercraft lets you cruise on both land and water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-future-of-driving-delorean-hovercraft-lets-you-cruise-on-both-land-and-water3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A second fan on the rear then pushes air behind the craft, driving it forward. Rudders behind this thrust fan turn the craft. It may be a hovercraft at its core, but like regular cars on the street, it has got headlights, navigation lamps, cockpit lights, as well as a flux capacitor \u2014 that\u2019s the coloured lights around the perimeter. The hovercraft took a total of four-and-a-half years to build.<\/p>\n<p>So, piloting the hovercraft feels like driving a car that\u2019s constantly sliding around on ice. You got your foot pedal and steering wheel and it feels like you\u2019re in a car, but you are just sliding around every way with no friction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second fan on the rear then pushes air behind the craft, driving it forward. Rudders behind this thrust fan turn the craft. It may be a hovercraft at its core, but like regular cars on the street, it has got headlights, navigation lamps, cockpit lights, as well as a flux capacitor \u2014 that\u2019s the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109956","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}