{"id":82772,"date":"2018-09-18T07:02:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/japan-eager-to-be-on-board-vertical-takeoff-flying-cars"},"modified":"2018-09-18T07:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:02:25","slug":"japan-eager-to-be-on-board-vertical-takeoff-flying-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/japan-eager-to-be-on-board-vertical-takeoff-flying-cars","title":{"rendered":"Japan eager to be on board vertical-takeoff \u2018flying cars\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-eager-to-be-on-board-vertical-takeoff-flying-cars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electric drones booked through smartphones pick people up from office rooftops, shortening travel time by hours, reducing the need for parking and clearing smog from the air.<\/p>\n<p>This vision of the future is driving the Japanese government\u2019s \u201cflying car\u201d project. Major carrier All Nippon Airways, electronics company NEC Corp. and more than a dozen other companies and academic experts hope to have a road map for the plan ready by the year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is such a totally new sector Japan has a good chance for not falling behind,\u201d said Fumiaki Ebihara, the government official in charge of the project.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018-09-japan-eager-board-vertical-takeoff-cars.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018&#45;09-japan-eager-board-ve...-cars.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric drones booked through smartphones pick people up from office rooftops, shortening travel time by hours, reducing the need for parking and clearing smog from the air. This vision of the future is driving the Japanese government\u2019s \u201cflying car\u201d project. Major carrier All Nippon Airways, electronics company NEC Corp. and more than a dozen other [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1507,1490,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-environmental","category-government","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82772","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=82772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}