{"id":150067,"date":"2022-11-13T21:22:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T03:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/pilots-go-head-to-head-in-worlds-first-electric-flying-car-race"},"modified":"2022-11-13T21:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T03:22:38","slug":"pilots-go-head-to-head-in-worlds-first-electric-flying-car-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/pilots-go-head-to-head-in-worlds-first-electric-flying-car-race","title":{"rendered":"Pilots Go Head to Head in \u201cWorld\u2019s First Electric Flying Car Race\u201d"},"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\/9pNRsZPHbho?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Flying car startup Airspeeder has completed what it\u2019s referring to as the \u201cworld\u2019s first electric flying car race\u201d in the South Australian desert.<\/p>\n<p>While the two competing pilots were steering the two full-scale flying cars remotely, it still made for an epic launch of a brand new kind of motorsport, as seen in a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9pNRsZPHbho\" class=\"\">promotional video<\/a> of the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is just the start, this first race offers only a glimpse of our promise to deliver the most progressive, transformative and exciting motorsport in the world,\u201d Airspeeder founder Matt Pearson said in a press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying car startup Airspeeder has completed what it\u2019s referring to as the \u201cworld\u2019s first electric flying car race\u201d in the South Australian desert. While the two competing pilots were steering the two full-scale flying cars remotely, it still made for an epic launch of a brand new kind of motorsport, as seen in a promotional [\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-150067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150067","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=150067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}