{"id":57577,"date":"2017-05-20T17:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T00:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/riding-high-toyota-eyes-flying-car-future"},"modified":"2017-05-23T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T22:00:42","slug":"riding-high-toyota-eyes-flying-car-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/riding-high-toyota-eyes-flying-car-future","title":{"rendered":"Riding high: Toyota eyes \u2018flying car\u2019 future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/riding-high-toyota-eyes-flying-car-future.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Toyota has its sights set on a Blade Runner future as the Japanese automaker backs a move to launch a flying car in time for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The company is giving about 42.5 million yen ($375,000) to the Cartivator project, which is developing the three-wheeled sci-fi car that relies on drone technology to take flight.<\/p>\n<p>The manned vehicle, dubbed SkyDrive, will have four sets of propellors and \u2014 at 2.9 metres (9.5 foot) long and 1.3 metres wide \u2014 is aiming to be the world\u2019s smallest flying car, according to the project.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/riding-high-toyota-eyes-flying-car-future-093539603.html?utm_content=buffer70891&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=yahoofinance\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/riding-high-toyota-eyes-flying-ca...hoofinance<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota has its sights set on a Blade Runner future as the Japanese automaker backs a move to launch a flying car in time for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The company is giving about 42.5 million yen ($375,000) to the Cartivator project, which is developing the three-wheeled sci-fi car that relies on drone technology to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57577","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57682,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57577\/revisions\/57682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}