{"id":380,"date":"2014-06-22T08:41:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T08:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/interplextransportation.com\/blog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2014-07-25T14:54:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T14:54:36","slug":"hovering-cars-will-we-need-roads-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/hovering-cars-will-we-need-roads-in-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Hovering cars- will we need roads in the future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Toyota_FT-86_II_5488848006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-384\" src=\"http:\/\/interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Toyota_FT-86_II_5488848006-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"800px-Toyota_FT-86_II_(5488848006)\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Toyota_FT-86_II_5488848006-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/800px-Toyota_FT-86_II_5488848006.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Toyota, one of the largest automakers, seems not to be content with just building conventional cars, hybrids or even testing self-driving cars. They are moving ahead by developing vehicles that are capable of hovering above the road, company officials revealed last Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hiroyoshi Yoshiki, the managing officer in Toyota Motor Corporation, said in an interview in San Francisco that the Japanese car manufacturer has investigated the possibility of vehicles hovering over the road. <!--more-->He added that the cars will not be actually flying like a helicopter in three-dimension space; instead, they will be \u201ca little bit away\u201d from the road with the aim of reducing friction with the road and they will be similar to a hovercraft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Yoshiki didn\u2019t give further details about when the company began investigating the idea; how far along they are into their research or whether they plan to put such a <a title=\"Transportation for Business or Leisure Travel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/fleet.php\" target=\"_blank\">vehicle<\/a> on the market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Flying vehicles have captured people&#8217;s imaginations for decades. It\u2019s good that at least some companies are exploring the idea. The technology for bringing these cars to reality might not be as far off as we think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toyota, one of the largest automakers, seems not to be content with just building conventional cars, hybrids or even testing self-driving cars. They are moving ahead by developing vehicles that are capable of hovering above the road, company officials revealed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/hovering-cars-will-we-need-roads-in-the-future\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,32],"tags":[67,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}