This is a citation of an outside article. Gravyday is not responsible for its content. Original URL below. Are flying taxis ready for lift-off? To supporters, they are the solution to congestion. To critics, they’re just billionaires’ toys. So are they the answer to urban travel? It’s right up there with meal pills, jetpacks, robot butlers and colonies on Mars. Since at least 1962, when the TV cartoon characters George, Jane, Elroy and Judy Jetson first took to the skies, flying cars have been a staple of speculative visions of the future. Designs for dozens of small, affordable, personal flying machines were unveiled in the latter half of the 20th century. Few became airborne and none took commercial flight.(more)
