Florida's governor says there is a new flying car, but it looks an awful lot like a plane (www.miamiherald.com)

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In a news conference loaded with “Back to the Future” and “The Jetsons” references, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Monday that Florida would become a national hub for testing ultralight electric aircraft, generally considered the next frontier of electric vehicles.

Although many people call them “flying cars,” without wheels or landing gear, they’re more like human-sized drones that can take off or land without a runway. The industry refers to them as electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or eVTOLs.

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[-] itsworkthatwedo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 hours ago

Although I want to drive a flying car as much as the next person, consider how bad we are at controlling these things on the road. Adding a third dimension and at least two degrees of rotational freedom? To call these death traps would be a severe undersell.

But go ahead, Florida, blaze some trails.

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