{"id":76018,"date":"2025-02-24T14:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T14:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/watch-as-real-life-flying-car-takes-to-the-skies-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T14:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T14:44:13","slug":"watch-as-real-life-flying-car-takes-to-the-skies-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/watch-as-real-life-flying-car-takes-to-the-skies-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch as real-life flying car takes to the skies | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An aeronautical company in the US has released footage showing a concept version of its flying car performing a vertical <!--more--> take-off before flying over an SUV.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Dukhovny, the CEO of Alef Aeronautics, told the BBC&#8217;s senior technology reporter Chris Vallance, that he had thousands of pre-orders and hoped to start production within 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>For about $300,000 (\u00a3237,000) the company said that buyers will get an electric flying car with a predicted airborne range of 110km (68 miles). But taking a friend for a spin may prove tricky &#8211; the cockpit only has enough room for one and a half people.<\/p>\n<p>Alef Aeronautics are not the only ones trying to make flying cars take off with buyers, and there are huge technological and regulatory hurdles to overcome.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#FlyingCars #Technology #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An aeronautical company in the US has released footage showing a concept version of its flying car performing a vertical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}