Flying cars are always this close to our Futurama future. Is it time to believe it?

Joby, the nascent air taxi leader, shares its vision for the future, which can’t get here soon enough. But yeah, it’s going to be a minute. Flying often first requires crawling, in a car, in slow or stopped traffic that eventually treats you to a view of airplanes soaring away from your ground-anchored vehicular misery. After decades of hype about flying cars, the past 10 years have seen a pivot to something of a car-plane hybrid: an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft that provides taxi-like service.