{"id":370585,"date":"2020-08-29T09:08:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T03:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370585"},"modified":"2020-08-29T09:43:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T04:13:46","slug":"japans-flying-car-gets-off-ground-with-a-person-aboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/japans-flying-car-gets-off-ground-with-a-person-aboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s &#8216;flying car&#8217; gets off ground, with a person aboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory.<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s SkyDrive Inc., among the myriads of \u201cflying car\u201d projects around the world, has carried out a successful though modest test flight with one person aboard.<\/p>\n<p>In a video shown to reporters on Friday, a contraption that looked like a slick motorcycle with propellers lifted several feet (1-2 meters) off the ground and hovered in a netted area for four minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Tomohiro Fukuzawa, who heads the SkyDrive effort, said he hopes \u201cthe flying car\u201d can be made into a real-life product by 2023, but he acknowledged that making it safe was critical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decades-old dream of zipping around in the sky as simply as driving on highways may be becoming less illusory. Japan&#8217;s SkyDrive Inc., among the myriads of \u201cflying car\u201d projects around the world, has carried out a successful though modest test flight with one person aboard. In a video shown to reporters on Friday, a contraption that looked like a slick motorcycle with propellers lifted several feet (1-2 meters) off the ground and hovered in a netted area for four minutes. Tomohiro Fukuzawa, who heads the SkyDrive effort, said he hopes \u201cthe flying car\u201d can be made into a real-life [&hellip;]<\/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":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370585","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=370585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}