That’s what I’ve decided to call the proliferating class of machines billed as flying cars, which is a lazy misnomer and misleading. Nobody is seriously proposing fully streetable automobiles that also fly, unless they mean to launch a Cadillac Escalade off a cliff. Even “car” is conceptually obsolete, descended from railroads and wheeled compartments. Cars shuffle along the X axis. Also known as vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles, or VTOLs, these machines are poised...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 12, 2018 12:02 UTC