If you thought Toyota’s attempt at creating a market-viable hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle was a pretty crazy-futuristic thing to do in this day and age, then the news that they may be looking to create a car that hovers above the road will be even more striking.
Yes, that’s right, The Verge says the Japanese manufacturer has “investigated the possibility of vehicles that are capable of hovering just above the road, technology designed to improve efficiency.”
It would be kind-of like a hovercraft, but suited for comfortable and efficient progress on-road. The information was extracted from an interview that Hiroyoshi Yoshiki, the managing officer with Toyota’s technical administration group, gave at Bloomberg’s Next Big Thing Summit in San Francisco.
However, aside from admitting they are studying the idea, all hopes of additional information were denied, as Yoshiki refused to add any more details at this moment.
They may not necessarily be in any kind of hurry to figure it out, since this sounds like the kind of idea that would bode really well with that of autonomous driving. It would be perfectly reasonable to suggest that if Toyota really does succeed in discovering cheap anti-gravity, it would be available in a vehicle that also drove (flew?) itself.
The vehicle in the video posted below is not a Toyota, but the VW People’s car project for China.
By Andrei Nedelea
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