It looks like a rough sketch from The Jetsons, yes. It costs the kind of money that will reflexively cause some people to toss it in the “billionaires’ toy club” category—and in the short term, that may well be where the product resides.
But no one in the transportation and aviation industry is chuckling any more at the notion of a flying car. In fact, companies are putting powerful resources behind it. And the world is not at all far from being able to ponder the practical applications of what once might’ve seemed a fanciful pursuit.
