{"id":82152,"date":"2018-08-28T06:42:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T13:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/japanese-engineers-say-their-flying-cars-will-be-in-the-air-by-the-tokyo-olympics"},"modified":"2018-08-28T06:42:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T13:42:34","slug":"japanese-engineers-say-their-flying-cars-will-be-in-the-air-by-the-tokyo-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/japanese-engineers-say-their-flying-cars-will-be-in-the-air-by-the-tokyo-olympics","title":{"rendered":"Japanese engineers say their flying cars will be in the air by the Tokyo Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japanese-engineers-say-their-flying-cars-will-be-in-the-air-by-the-tokyo-olympics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of young Japanese engineers is developing a flying car with the goal of launching it in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The futuristic vehicle \u2013 dubbed Skydrive \u2013 is fitted with three wheels, a motor and four rotors, enabling it to take off and land vertically from public roads without the need of a runway.<\/p>\n<p>Measuring only 9.5 feet by 4.3 feet, Skydrive claims to be the world\u2019s smallest flying car, with a target top flight speed of 62 mph, while travelling up to 32 feet above the ground.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/05\/26\/japanese-engineers-to-create-flying-cars-in-time-in-time-for-tok\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/05\/26\/japanese-enginee...e-for-tok\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of young Japanese engineers is developing a flying car with the goal of launching it in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The futuristic vehicle \u2013 dubbed Skydrive \u2013 is fitted with three wheels, a motor and four rotors, enabling it to take off and land vertically from public roads without the need [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82152","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=82152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}