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  • Eve Air’s Flying Taxi Survived a Wind Tunnel

    Eve Air’s Flying Taxi Survived a Wind Tunnel

    As of 2023, the new millennium has proven to be way less full of flying cars than the movies promised. In today’s present, the sky isn’t dotted with compact vehicles zipping back and forth through an aerial metropolis. But maybe tomorrow could be. Or at least that’s what a handful of tech startups are angling…


  • XPeng Strapped a Drone to a Hatchback and Called it a Flying Car

    XPeng Strapped a Drone to a Hatchback and Called it a Flying Car

    Flying cars are the future, apparently. That’s what tech companies like to say whenever they wheel out a new vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) craft that they’re tenuously claiming is a flying car. So far, very few of these creations have made it off the drawing board and into reality. Things changed this week, when…


  • The ‘Future Of Flight’ Keeps Crashing and Burning

    The ‘Future Of Flight’ Keeps Crashing and Burning

    While carmakers are scrambling to become “mobility companies,” a different race for transportation efficiency is taking place right above our heads. Aircraft manufacturers are testing electric planes, capable of vertical takeoff and landing and remote-controlled flight, to use as traffic-hopping sky taxis that cut commute times down to nothing.