Tech Cocktail - Maybe the words of the legendary automotive pioneer Henry Ford in 1940, when he said that a combination airplane and motorcar would happen, were the inspiration for the fictional futuristic animated cartoon, The Jetsons.
This year at virtual CES, GM unveiled a concept of a VTOL aircraft. This is not a flying car. Yet, as is often the case at CES, there is going to be some manufacturer claiming it has finally realized a flying something.
With the news of Uber shutting down its flying taxi project, who will be the first company to lift off its flying taxi service? It will be from a little German company called Volocopter GmbH, and they have plans to launch the service in Singapore by the end of 2023.
Toyota-backed Japanese startup Skydrive predicts that their flying taxis will hit the sky by 2023.
