{"id":116450,"date":"2020-11-29T17:26:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T01:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/this-flying-car-costs-599k-and-its-now-street-legal-in-holland"},"modified":"2020-11-29T17:26:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T01:26:22","slug":"this-flying-car-costs-599k-and-its-now-street-legal-in-holland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/this-flying-car-costs-599k-and-its-now-street-legal-in-holland","title":{"rendered":"This Flying Car Costs $599K\u2014and It\u2019s Now Street Legal in Holland"},"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\/fFW_0C7yFCI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Looks like you can now use this flying car in Holland.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We\u2019ve all had the experience of sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic with nothing but miles of red taillights ahead, wishing we could somehow break away from the pack and zoom off to our destination traffic-free. Now drivers in the Netherlands are one step closer to making this vision a reality, as a commercial flying car has just been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pal-v.com\/en\/press\/worlds-first-flying-car-hits-the-road\">approved for use<\/a> on roads there.<\/p>\n<p>The car is called the PAL-V Liberty, and it\u2019s made by Dutch company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pal-v.com\/en\/\">PAL-V<\/a>. It looks a lot like what you\u2019d probably expect or imagine a <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2019\/11\/01\/flying-cars-aerial-ridesharing-and-the-not-too-distant-future-of-transport\/\">flying car<\/a> to look like: a cross between a small helicopter and a very aerodynamic car (with a foldable propeller on top).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like you can now use this flying car in Holland. We\u2019ve all had the experience of sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic with nothing but miles of red taillights ahead, wishing we could somehow break away from the pack and zoom off to our destination traffic-free. Now drivers in the Netherlands are one step closer to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116450","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}