{"id":112018,"date":"2020-08-28T11:22:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T18:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/japans-flying-car-gets-off-ground-with-a-person-aboard"},"modified":"2020-08-28T11:22:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T18:22:47","slug":"japans-flying-car-gets-off-ground-with-a-person-aboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/japans-flying-car-gets-off-ground-with-a-person-aboard","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s \u2018flying car\u2019 gets off ground, with a person aboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japans-flying-car-gets-off-ground-with-a-person-aboard2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s SkyDrive Inc., among the myriads of \u201cflying car\u201d projects around the world, has carried out a successful though modest test flight with one person aboard.<\/p>\n<p>In a video shown to reporters on Friday, a contraption that looked like a slick motorcycle with propellers lifted several feet (1\u22122 meters) off the ground, and hovered in a netted area for four minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory. Japan\u2019s SkyDrive Inc., among the myriads of \u201cflying car\u201d projects around the world, has carried out a successful though modest test flight with one person aboard. In a video shown to reporters on Friday, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112018","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=112018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}