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06-11-2014, 05:27 AM
Toyota Considers Building an Actual Hover Car
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It's **t exactly The Jetsons, but it's close.
Toyota's managing ******r Hiroyoshi Yoshiki said at Bloomberg's Next Big Thing conference in Sausalito, California on Tuesday that the company may build a hover car in the future.
See also: Top 28 Google Street View Sightings (http://mashable.com/2007/05/31/top-15-google-street-view-sightings/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
The reasoning behind the concept is that a hover car would combat road friction and enhance efficiency, Yoshiki said. He didn't elaborate on what fuel source would power the vehicle
Although ** solid plans have been made to build a prototype, the concept has been bandied about among Toyota's research and development teams, he added. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/10/toyota-hover-car/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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It's **t exactly The Jetsons, but it's close.
Toyota's managing ******r Hiroyoshi Yoshiki said at Bloomberg's Next Big Thing conference in Sausalito, California on Tuesday that the company may build a hover car in the future.
See also: Top 28 Google Street View Sightings (http://mashable.com/2007/05/31/top-15-google-street-view-sightings/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
The reasoning behind the concept is that a hover car would combat road friction and enhance efficiency, Yoshiki said. He didn't elaborate on what fuel source would power the vehicle
Although ** solid plans have been made to build a prototype, the concept has been bandied about among Toyota's research and development teams, he added. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/06/10/toyota-hover-car/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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