Name: 在西班牙駕駛雷克薩斯懸浮滑板 (Riding the Lexus hoverboard in Spain)
Uploaded: 2025-07-27T17:31:26.000Z
Duration: 5 min 37 s

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You might wonder why a car company is using a hoverboard in one of its ads.

你可能會問，為什麼一家汽車公司會在其廣告中使用懸浮滑板。

Is Lexus planning to make hoverboards now?

雷克薩斯現在打算生產懸浮滑板嗎？

但你看到的懸浮滑板是真實存在的。

It's actually levitating and you can totally ride it.

它實際上是懸浮的，你完全可以駕馭它。

But is it the transportation of the future?

So, for like the last two decades, we've been teased with the existence of functional hoverboards.

是以，在過去的二十年裡，我們一直被功能性懸浮滑板的存在所戲弄。

Back to the Future Part 2 gave us a glimpse of what a hoverboard may look like in the year 2015.

回到未來第二部》讓我們看到了 2015 年懸浮滑板的模樣。

Director Robert Zemeckis further fueled our imaginations by claiming that they used real hoverboards in the film, and that the only thing stopping these things from being mass-produced was concerned parent groups.

導演羅伯特-澤米吉斯（Robert Zemeckis）進一步激發了我們的想象力，他聲稱他們在影片中使用了真正的懸浮滑板，而阻止這些東西大規模生產的唯一原因是相關的家長團體。

Last year, Funny or Die trolled the internet with Christopher Lloyd, Tony Hawk, and random celebrities riding a fake hoverboard called the Hover, which they swore up and down was true.

去年，Funny or Die 在互聯網上發佈了克里斯托弗-勞埃德、託尼-霍克和其他一些名人騎著名為 Hover 的假懸浮滑板的照片，他們信誓旦旦地表示這是真的。

So when Lexus released its first hoverboard teaser earlier this summer, I, along with the rest of the internet, was super skeptical.

是以，當雷克薩斯在今年夏天早些時候發佈首款懸浮滑板預告片時，我和互聯網上的其他人一樣，都抱著極大的懷疑態度。

It looked so real, but Lexus out of all companies?

它看起來如此真實，但雷克薩斯是所有公司中最真實的？

And then we were invited to see the thing in person.

然後，我們被邀請去親眼看一看。

In a beach town about 45 minutes away from Barcelona, Lexus built an entire skatepark, or hoverpark if you will, that acted as a set for its commercial.

在距離巴塞羅那約 45 分鐘車程的一個海濱小鎮上，雷克薩斯建造了一個完整的滑板公園，或者說懸浮公園，作為廣告片的取景地。

And yeah, this park was built just for the hoverboard, which does exactly what you think.

沒錯，這個公園就是為懸浮滑板而建的，它的作用和你想的一模一樣。

It hovers off the ground like a proper hoverboard.

它就像一個合適的懸浮滑板一樣離地懸浮。

But as I'm sure you've guessed, there are some big caveats, like the track it needs to run on, which is crucial to how the thing works at all.

但我相信你已經猜到了，這其中有一些很大的注意事項，比如它需要在軌道上運行，這對它如何工作至關重要。

Inside the board are rows of superconductors.

A special property of these type 2 superconductors is that when they're cooled down to a critical temperature, they exhibit properties that alter and manipulate any magnetic field around them.

這些 2 型超導體的一個特殊性質是，當它們冷卻到臨界溫度時，它們會表現出改變和操縱周圍任何磁場的特性。

Therefore, the board must be ridden above a highly engineered track that's carefully embedded with magnets, strong enough to hold the board and a rider.

是以，衝浪板必須在精心設計的軌道上騎行，軌道上嵌有磁鐵，足以吸住衝浪板和騎手。

Normally, the track is hidden under the hoverboard.

通常，軌道隱藏在懸浮滑板下面。

The board must be resting upon a portion of that same track when being cooled with liquid nitrogen, which essentially programs it to levitate at a certain height.

在用液氮冷卻時，電路板必須靠在同一軌道的一部分上，這樣才能使電路板懸浮在一定的高度上。

After this process is complete, the board can be brought over to the park and will hover above the track at roughly the same height, about 4 centimeters.

完成這一過程後，就可以把滑板帶到公園，在軌道上方懸停，高度大致相同，約為 4 釐米。

It's a process called flux pinning, and we've seen people do some fun things with this on a small scale before.

這個過程被稱為 "通量固定"，我們曾看到有人在小範圍內用它做過一些有趣的事情。

But now that it's been applied to a hoverboard, what's that actually like to ride?

但現在，它被應用到了懸浮滑板上，那實際騎起來是什麼感覺呢？

It's not as easy as riding a skateboard where all four wheels are on the ground.

這不像騎滑板那麼容易，四個輪子都要著地。

The magnetic track in the ground lines up vertically with the center of the board, so it's kind of like you're on a tightrope.

地面上的磁性軌道與木板中心垂直對齊，所以就有點像在走鋼絲。

And if your balance isn't perfectly distributed on this thing, you end up scraping the ground with the undersides of the board.

如果你的平衡掌握得不好，你就會用木板的底部刮到地面。

It took me like 15 minutes just to glide a few feet.

光是滑行幾英尺就花了我 15 分鐘。

So yeah, no shot I was going to ride around the park like Marty McFly did in Back to the Future Part 2.

所以是的，我不可能像《回到未來第二部》中的馬蒂-麥克弗萊（Marty McFly）那樣在公園裡兜風。

Luckily though, I had the chance to speak with pro skater Ross McGurran, the guy featured in the commercial.

不過幸運的是，我有機會與職業滑冰運動員羅斯-麥克格蘭（Ross McGurran）進行了交談，他就是廣告中的主角。

So you've been skating for 15, 20 years you said?  And how long did it take you to get to master, in a sense, where you could ride around the track without scraping?

你說你已經滑了 15 到 20 年了？  從某種意義上說，你花了多長時間才成為高手，可以在賽道上馳騁而不擦傷？

Yeah, I mean, after now it's been like five, six months I've been trying it.

是啊，我是說，我已經試了五六個月了。

So even now, I can go down in a straight line, even some corners it scrapes a bit, but you can ride yourself quick enough so you don't fall off.

是以，即使是現在，我也能在直線上走下來，甚至在一些彎道上也能刮擦一下，但你可以騎得足夠快，這樣就不會摔下來。

You can feel it under your feet, you can feel that sweet spot when you try it.

你能感覺到它就在你的腳下，當你嘗試它時，你能感覺到它的甜點。

Just the feeling of some invisible air rail thing is what it feels like to me.

對我來說，這只是一種無形氣軌的感覺。

So riding the hoverboard is very difficult.

是以，駕駛懸浮滑板非常困難。

And besides that, another major problem with this thing is that it needs to be constantly cooled with liquid nitrogen, and when it was as hot as it was outside that day in Spain, we got 10 or 15 minutes on the board before it had to be refilled, a process itself that takes another 10 or 15 minutes.

除此之外，這個東西的另一個主要問題是，它需要不斷地用液氮進行冷卻，而西班牙那天的室外溫度很高，我們只能在電路板上工作 10 或 15 分鐘，然後就必須重新加註液氮，這個過程本身又需要 10 或 15 分鐘。

At this point, I gotta wonder why this thing even exists.

在這一點上，我不禁要問，這東西為什麼會存在。

The Lexus Hoverboard isn't actually a product.

雷克薩斯懸浮滑板實際上並不是一種產品。

It's just a special effect in a car commercial.

這只是汽車廣告中的特效而已。

It's part of a series Lexus refers to as amazing in motion, which has used lots of flashy props before.

這是雷克薩斯 "運動中的驚豔 "系列的一部分，該系列曾使用過許多華而不實的道具。

Large mechanical puppets dancing through the streets of Madrid, light suits flying through Kuala Lumpur, and even will.i.am.

大型機械木偶在馬德里街頭翩翩起舞，光影套裝在吉隆坡飛舞，甚至還有 will.i.am。

The difference is that you'd never expect to own what is essentially a gigantic guitar hero looking level for your car or an LED light suit.

所不同的是，你永遠不會想到自己的汽車會擁有一個外形酷似吉他英雄的巨型水平儀或 LED 燈套裝。

You sure as hell would want a hoverboard though.

不過，你肯定會想要一個懸浮滑板。

Fortunately, there are companies like Hendo that are actually working on levitation technology with ambitions beyond marketing.

幸運的是，有一些像 Hendo 這樣的公司正在真正研究懸浮技術，其雄心壯志超出了市場營銷的範疇。

But right now, Lexus hasn't brought us any closer to being Marnie McFly.

但現在，雷克薩斯並沒有讓我們更接近瑪妮-麥克菲。

Maybe that's just as well considering the insane limitations of the Lexus Hoverboard.

考慮到雷克薩斯懸浮滑板瘋狂的侷限性，也許這樣也不錯。

You need lots of money to build a track, gallons and gallons of liquid nitrogen on hand, and five months of training just to master your balance.

你需要大量資金來建造賽道，手頭需要一加侖一加侖的液氮，還需要五個月的訓練才能掌握平衡。

So the next time a car company promises you a little bit of back to the future style science You might want to limit your expectations and just tell them this.

所以，下次再有汽車公司向你承諾 "回到未來 "式的科學時，你可能要限制一下自己的期望值，告訴他們這一點。

Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here.

你為什麼不像一棵樹一樣離開這裡？