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Do You Really Want a Flying Car?

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November/December 2023

Close your eyes and imagine the future. Are flying cars whizzing through the air?

- By Kathryn Hulick

Do You Really Want a Flying Car?

That future is almost here. "I think it's going to happen. Definitely this decade...and hopefully much, much faster," said Sebastian Thrun in 2021. At that time, his young company Kitty Hawk Corporation was working on developing a flying car. Only the company didn't call it that. The technical name is eVTOL, or Electronic Vertical Take-Off and Landing vehicle..

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