{"id":371459,"date":"2020-09-03T09:22:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T03:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=371459"},"modified":"2020-09-03T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T04:32:15","slug":"when-cars-fly-japan-firm-skydrive-says-day-is-nearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/when-cars-fly-japan-firm-skydrive-says-day-is-nearing\/","title":{"rendered":"When cars fly: Japan firm SkyDrive says day is nearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might seem like a flight of fancy, but a Japanese firm says it is one step closer to making flying cars a reality after testing a drone-like prototype.<\/p>\n<p>Video from engineering company SkyDrive shows its manned compact vehicle using eight propellers to hover into the air and make its way &#8212; with a few wobbles &#8212; around a test field.<\/p>\n<p>But while the clip may excite fans of &#8220;Blade Runner&#8221; and &#8220;Back to the Future&#8221;, the test run leaves mankind far from a future of airborne vehicles whizzing into the sky to avoid traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The company hailed &#8220;the first public demonstration of a flying car in Japan&#8221; and said the aircraft, around the size of two parked cars, had circled the testing field for four minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might seem like a flight of fancy, but a Japanese firm says it is one step closer to making flying cars a reality after testing a drone-like prototype. Video from engineering company SkyDrive shows its manned compact vehicle using eight propellers to hover into the air and make its way &#8212; with a few wobbles &#8212; around a test field. But while the clip may excite fans of &#8220;Blade Runner&#8221; and &#8220;Back to the Future&#8221;, the test run leaves mankind far from a future of airborne vehicles whizzing into the sky to avoid traffic. The company hailed &#8220;the first [&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-371459","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\/371459","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=371459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}