Posted on 3/12/2019
Science fiction has teased the idea of flying cars for decades, but in the real world they’ve been nothing more than a concept. That’s beginning to change, as companies around the world begin to look at making personal air travel feasible. Called VTOL (VEE’-toll), short for vertical takeoff and land, these vehicles may be in our skies as soon as the next decades.
Of course, no one is ready for flying cars quite yet. There’s no infrastructure to support them, and regulations are needed to govern their use (like personal drones, but a thousand times worse). You won’t find the first commercial VTOLs at a dealership, instead they’ll be taxi services built to shuttle people from one part of a city to another.
So who’s working on ma...