Toyota's advanced R&D division has been working on a new technology that would make cars levitate off the ground to increase efficiency. We checked. It's not April 1st. What the hell?P
Speaking at Bloomberg's Next Big Thing Summit, Hiroyoshi Yoshiki, the managing officer of Toyota's Technical Administration Division, said that the company has been studying the idea, where a car would be "a little bit away" from the road to reduce friction.
Toyota today said it's investigated the possibility of vehicles that are capable of hovering just above the road, technology designed to improve efficiency. In an interview at Bloomberg's Next Big Thing Summit in San Francisco, Hiroyoshi Yoshiki — the managing officer with Toyota's technical administration group — said that the company had been studying a similar idea of flying cars at one of its "most advanced" research and development areas, but cautioned that the concept was not like actually flying around in three-dimensional space. Instead, he said, the plan is to get the car "a little bit away" from the road to reduce friction, similar to a hovercraft.
If you make them with huge bumpers, it would actually cause less accidents. It would be like bumper cars. We have accidents because of friction. You learn this in physics. If your car is moving and you are not wearing a seatbelt and the car stops, you keep going forward.
But if you hit another car, the car ahead will just move forward. It wouldn't be a complete stop.
If you make them with huge bumpers, it would actually cause less accidents. It would be like bumper cars. We have accidents because of friction. You learn this in physics. If your car is moving and you are not wearing a seatbelt and the car stops, you keep going forward.
But if you hit another car, the car ahead will just move forward. It wouldn't be a complete stop.
And when you're pushed into an intersection with cars going 50 miles per hour, and they hit you from the side, have fun with your broken neck, whiplash, and other injuries.
that would be so cool
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