{"id":89407,"date":"2019-04-10T12:25:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T19:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/a-jetsons-future-assessing-the-role-of-flying-cars-in-sustainable-mobility"},"modified":"2019-04-10T12:25:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T19:25:14","slug":"a-jetsons-future-assessing-the-role-of-flying-cars-in-sustainable-mobility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/a-jetsons-future-assessing-the-role-of-flying-cars-in-sustainable-mobility","title":{"rendered":"A Jetsons future? Assessing the role of flying cars in sustainable mobility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bsxQiKT1I5g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the 1960s animated sitcom The Jetsons, George Jetson commutes to work in his family-size flying car, which miraculously transforms into a briefcase at the end of the trip.<\/p>\n<p>A new study of the environmental sustainability impacts of flying cars, formally known as electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or VTOLs, finds that they wouldn\u2019t be suitable for a Jetsons-style short commute.<\/p>\n<p>However, VTOLs\u2014which combine the convenience of vertical takeoff and landing like a helicopter with the efficient aerodynamic flight of an airplane\u2014could play a niche role in sustainable mobility for longer trips, according to the study, scheduled for publication April 9 in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>. Several companies around the world are developing VTOL prototypes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2019-04-jetsons-future-role-cars-sustainable.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1960s animated sitcom The Jetsons, George Jetson commutes to work in his family-size flying car, which miraculously transforms into a briefcase at the end of the trip. A new study of the environmental sustainability impacts of flying cars, formally known as electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or VTOLs, finds that they wouldn\u2019t [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89407","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}