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Yes, GM Showed a Flying Car at CES! It’s just a computer simulation, but still, flying car! It was just a concept, but CES is just virtual this year. Other carmakers have shown VTOL aircraft studies. We are all suckers for flying cars. Just like jet packs, moving sidewalks, and robot servants that laugh at our jokes, flying cars offer limitless possibility, a huge leap over the mundanity of everyday life, and a science fiction-like view that the future has finally arrived. And at CES flying c...

GM shows off flying car idea, the Cadillac Halo Jamie L. LaReau, Detroit Free Press General Motors has inched slightly closer to fulfilling its quest to put the world in flying cars. As part of the 2021 virtual Consumer Electronics Show on Tuesday, GM showed renderings and animation of what it dubbed its Cadillac Halo concepts: the Cadillac Personal Autonomous Vehicle, which is like a fancy self-driving taxi, and Cadillac Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) vehicle, a sle...

General Motors has inched slightly closer to fulfilling its quest to put the world in flying cars. As part of the 2021 virtual Consumer Electronics Show on Tuesday, GM showed renderings and animation of what it dubbed its Cadillac Halo concepts: the Cadillac Personal Autonomous Vehicle, which is like a fancy self-driving taxi, and Cadillac Vertical Take-off and Landing (VTOL) vehicle, a sleek and futuristic drone-like flying car. "The VTOL is GM’s first foray into air travel,” said Mi...

Were one step closer to living like "The Jetsons."

General Motors Shows a First Look at a Futuristic Flying Cadillac There are also all sorts of questions about safety, regulatory approval, and how to ensure the cars don’t ever crash into each other, or on to the street below. Nevertheless, it’s somewhat fascinating to know that something like this is on the horizon.  As technology has advanced, people have asked, “When will we have flying cars?” “Weren’t we supposed to have flying cars by now?” With self-driving car technology ...

autoevolution 13 Jan 2021, 7:15 UTC · by 8 photos Unveiled at the virtual CES 2021, this PAV (Personal Autonomous Vehicle) from GM’s Cadillac is still shaped like a box – or toaster, or egg, depending on how you look at it – but it’s a genuine party bus inside. And then some. This is how you do luxury ride-sharing. The pod has no windows so as to encourage riders to look at each other and socialize, Michael Simcoe, GM’s VP of Global Design, explained at the presentation. If the...

An extremely futuristic day, even by CES standards.

GM unveiled some new concepts during its presentation at CES 2021, including a single-seat flying electric vehicle and an autonomous taxi.

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autoevolution 13 Jan 2021, 5:27 UTC · by Like most of the world, General Motors is looking to the sky for a glimpse of the future of urban mobility. Flying cars, flying taxis, eVTOLs, whatever you want to call them are not a reality yet, but they will be. Hopefully so. 6 photos When that happens, GM will be ready. The carmaker’s CES 2021 virtual presentation included the Halo Portfolio of concept vehicles and, among them, an eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft) that ...