{"id":99721,"date":"2019-12-13T19:42:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T03:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/japan-aims-for-an-air-mobility-revolution-with-flying-taxis-and-mobility-as-a-service"},"modified":"2019-12-13T19:42:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T03:42:14","slug":"japan-aims-for-an-air-mobility-revolution-with-flying-taxis-and-mobility-as-a-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/japan-aims-for-an-air-mobility-revolution-with-flying-taxis-and-mobility-as-a-service","title":{"rendered":"Japan Aims For An Air Mobility Revolution With Flying Taxis And Mobility As A Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japan-aims-for-an-air-mobility-revolution-with-flying-taxis-and-mobility-as-a-service.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1893, Japanese entrepreneur Kokichi Mikimoto succeeded in creating the world\u2019s first cultured pearls in the coastal city of Toba, Mie Prefecture. Mikimoto changed the world of jewelry and launched a new industry. Today, steps away from the island where Mikimoto created the pearls, Toba is aiming to launch another new industry: flying taxis to offshore settlements. Earlier this year, NEC showed off its eVTOL flying car concept, which hovered 3 meters off the ground for about a minute. These developments are part of a global push to develop autonomous aircraft that could become a $1.5 trillion market by 2040, according to Morgan Stanley Research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1893, Japanese entrepreneur Kokichi Mikimoto succeeded in creating the world\u2019s first cultured pearls in the coastal city of Toba, Mie Prefecture. Mikimoto changed the world of jewelry and launched a new industry. Today, steps away from the island where Mikimoto created the pearls, Toba is aiming to launch another new industry: flying taxis to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99721","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=99721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}