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puffer cars could actually become a thing that's right the cars that float above the ground could become a reality I'm Nathan Tsai Kurt and this is 90 seconds on the verge this week at Bloomberg's next big thing summit in San Francisco Toyota's Hiroyoshi Yoshiki confirmed that the company has been investigating the possibility of vehicles that hovered just above the road Yoshiki declined to elaborate on how far along Toyota was in the investigation or if it ever plans on bringing the hover cars to market but he did make sure to note that these cars would just float a little bit off the ground in an effort to reduce friction and improve efficiency hover cars are a long-running science fiction trope from Star Wars to Total Recall and even video games like f-zero people have dreamed of floating cars for a long time although generally speaking they don't fly more than a few feet off the ground at most in our efforts to actually build hover cars dates back decades Curtis Wright made two working prototypes of the US military the model 2500 created an air cushion that lifted 10 to 15 inches off the ground and had a max speed of 38 miles per hour but the idea was quickly abandoned since it couldn't really do all-terrain for more on hover cars check out the verge coming up tomorrow what up don't don't say coming up tomorrow it never happens but think about it it has happened remember episode 1 will be back tomorrow when we're taking a look at hoverboards they're cool but are they safe yeah by me hoverboards aren't exactly Nathan Nathan where is everybody