{"id":82004,"date":"2018-08-24T16:28:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T23:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/japan-teams-up-with-uber-boeing-and-airbus-to-deploy-flying-cars-within-a-decade"},"modified":"2018-08-24T16:28:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T23:28:43","slug":"japan-teams-up-with-uber-boeing-and-airbus-to-deploy-flying-cars-within-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/japan-teams-up-with-uber-boeing-and-airbus-to-deploy-flying-cars-within-a-decade","title":{"rendered":"Japan teams up with Uber, Boeing, and Airbus to deploy flying cars within a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-teams-up-with-uber-boeing-and-airbus-to-deploy-flying-cars-within-a-decade.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The country isn\u2019t a world leader in autonomous or electric vehicles, but it\u2019s all in on putting cars in the sky.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The news:<\/strong> Japan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-08-24\/uber-airbus-are-said-to-be-enlisted-in-japan-s-flying-car-plan\">announced today<\/a> that it\u2019s bringing together 21 companies and organizations, including big hitters like Uber, Boeing, Airbus, Cartivator, and Japan Airlines, to bring aerial vehicles to the skies within 10 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> The government said it will address one of the major things holding back flying cars: regulation. \u201cThe Japanese government will provide appropriate support to help realize the concept of flying cars, such as creation of acceptable rules,\u201d the ministry said. If Japan is able to quickly establish a legal system in which flying cars can function, it could get a jump start over countries like the US, whose Federal Aviation Association has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/609165\/the-faa-is-finally-letting-drones-fly-over-crowds\/\">notoriously slow-moving<\/a> on things like drone regulation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/611938\/japan-teams-up-with-uber-boeing-and-airbus-to-deploy-flying-cars-within-a-decade\/\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/611938\/japan-t...-a-decade\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country isn\u2019t a world leader in autonomous or electric vehicles, but it\u2019s all in on putting cars in the sky. The news: Japan announced today that it\u2019s bringing together 21 companies and organizations, including big hitters like Uber, Boeing, Airbus, Cartivator, and Japan Airlines, to bring aerial vehicles to the skies within 10 years. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1490,1496,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-government","category-law","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82004","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}