Just imagine sitting in your own personal aircraft. You pull a single joystick back and buzz vertically into the sky. Your nose itches, so you let go of the joystick to scratch it while your EV floats vertically in space like a giant drone. Itch scratched, you grab the joystick, push it gently forward, and head off to your destination.
That’s the dream of the burgeoning electric vertical take-off and landing (EVTOL) industry that's on display at CES 2024. I haven't see one of these things fly yet, but I did get up close with one of the first commercially available all-electric personal aircraft, the Helix Pivotal.
