{"id":74624,"date":"2017-12-20T07:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T15:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/worlds-first-flying-car-race-could-predict-the-future-of-sports"},"modified":"2017-12-20T07:42:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T15:42:30","slug":"worlds-first-flying-car-race-could-predict-the-future-of-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/worlds-first-flying-car-race-could-predict-the-future-of-sports","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s First Flying Car Race Could Predict The Future of Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-flying-car-race-could-predict-the-future-of-sports2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>after two years of development in a secret location in sydney, australian start-up alauda reveals the airspeeder mark 1, a new class of airborne racing vehicle \u2013 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/flying-car\/\">flying car<\/a> that could predict the future of sports. <\/strong>the company\u2019s turning to kickstarter to not only help build the final product but the beginnings of a community that could usher in a new age of sport.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-flying-car-race-could-predict-the-future-of-sports2.jpg\" alt=\"future of sports flying car alauda\" width=\"818\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-flying-car-race-could-predict-the-future-of-sports2.jpg 818w, https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/alauda-airspeeder-mark-1-flying-car-future-of-sports-designboom-6-768x361.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 818px)  100vw, 818px\" \/> the body is modelled after a 1960\u2019s Formula V images courtesy of alauda.<\/p>\n<p><strong>coining it \u2018airspeeder sport\u2019, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alaudaracing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alauda<\/a> is hoping to push the technology to the mainstream whilst looking ahead to their first official test race which will see two of their vehicles racing against one another next year.<\/strong> in the lead-up alauda has test raced with drones, developing a flight-control system before creating their much larger \u2018speeders\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/design\/flying-car-future-of-sports-alauda-12-20-2017\/\">https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/design\/flying-car-future-of-sport...&#45;2017\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after two years of development in a secret location in sydney, australian start-up alauda reveals the airspeeder mark 1, a new class of airborne racing vehicle \u2013 a flying car that could predict the future of sports. the company\u2019s turning to kickstarter to not only help build the final product but the beginnings of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74624","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}