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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 cars are now almost a requirement. Flying car in this case means eVTOL, or electric Vertical Take-Off...

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 sleek and futuristic drone-like flying car. © General Motors During a presentation at the 2021 Consu...

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 Michael Simcoe, GM’s vice president of global design. Advances in electric vehicles and other techno...

We're 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 somewhat stalled out, society is probably quite a distance away from having access to flying cars. B...