{"id":12472,"date":"2014-10-15T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12472"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:11:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:11:52","slug":"toyota-is-investigating-cars-that-hover-above-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/toyota-is-investigating-cars-that-hover-above-the-road","title":{"rendered":"Toyota is investigating cars that hover above the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a class=\"author fn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/users\/JoshLowensohn\">Josh Lowensohn<\/a> \u2014 The Verge<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;\" src=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\" height=\"457\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Toyota today said it\u2019s investigated the possibility of vehicles that are capable of hovering just above the road, technology designed to improve efficiency. In an interview at Bloomberg\u2019s Next Big Thing Summit in San Francisco, Hiroyoshi Yoshiki \u2014 the managing officer with Toyota\u2019s technical administration group \u2014 said that the company had been studying a similar idea of flying cars at one of its \u201cmost advanced\u201d research and development areas, but cautioned that the concept was not like actually flying around in three-dimensional space. Instead, he said, the plan is to get the car \u201ca little bit away\u201d from the road to reduce friction, similar to a hovercraft.<\/p>\n<p>Following the interview, Yoshiki declined to elaborate on when the company began investigating the idea, how far along it is, or if it ever plans to bring it to market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/6\/9\/5793494\/toyota-has-been-investigating-cars-that-hover-above-the-road\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Josh Lowensohn \u2014 The Verge Toyota today said it\u2019s investigated the possibility of vehicles that are capable of hovering just above the road, technology designed to improve efficiency. In an interview at Bloomberg\u2019s Next Big Thing Summit in San Francisco, Hiroyoshi Yoshiki \u2014 the managing officer with Toyota\u2019s technical administration group \u2014 said that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12472","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46831,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12472\/revisions\/46831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}