{"id":164395,"date":"2023-05-23T07:26:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T12:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/startups-bladeless-flying-car-is-designed-to-reach-mach-0-8"},"modified":"2023-05-23T07:26:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T12:26:29","slug":"startups-bladeless-flying-car-is-designed-to-reach-mach-0-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/startups-bladeless-flying-car-is-designed-to-reach-mach-0-8","title":{"rendered":"Startup\u2019s bladeless flying car is designed to reach Mach 0.8"},"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\/pXRxjckDYgU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Seattle-based startup Jetoptera is designing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) vehicles with bladeless propulsion systems \u2014 potentially making the future of urban flight quiet, safer, and faster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> The proportion of the global population living in cities is expected to increase from 50% today to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/development\/desa\/en\/news\/population\/2018-revision-of-world-urbanization-prospects.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nearly 70%<\/a> by 2050, meaning our already crowded urban streets are likely to become even more congested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle-based startup Jetoptera is designing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) vehicles with bladeless propulsion systems \u2014 potentially making the future of urban flight quiet, safer, and faster. The challenge: The proportion of the global population living in cities is expected to increase from 50% today to nearly 70% by 2050, meaning our already crowded urban [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164395","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}