{"id":297691,"date":"2019-10-23T12:41:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T07:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=297691"},"modified":"2019-10-23T12:44:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T07:14:55","slug":"flying-taxis-of-the-future-look-like-toys-come-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/flying-taxis-of-the-future-look-like-toys-come-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying taxis of the future look like toys come to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flying taxis, once the purview of science-fiction films such as The Fifth Element, might soon be a staple of urban transport, like better batteries and innovative designs make it cheaper, cleaner, and quieter to travel short distances by air. Citigroup thinks sales of air taxis could reach $5 billion a year by the end of the next decade. <\/p>\n<p>Two companies came to Singapore this week to share their vision during the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress. U.K.-based Skyports Ltd. built a model flying taxi station, while Germany\u2019s Volocopter GmbH gave a demonstration flight of its electric vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying taxis, once the purview of science-fiction films such as The Fifth Element, might soon be a staple of urban transport, like better batteries and innovative designs make it cheaper, cleaner, and quieter to travel short distances by air. Citigroup thinks sales of air taxis could reach $5 billion a year by the end of the next decade. Two companies came to Singapore this week to share their vision during the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress. U.K.-based Skyports Ltd. built a model flying taxi station, while Germany\u2019s Volocopter GmbH gave a demonstration flight of its electric vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}