DOT demonstrates ‘flying cars’ at Tampa International Airport

Florida highlighted a historic first in Tampa from more than a century ago as another step was taken towards a new mode of short air travel intended to avoid ground traffic, as reported by our news partners at News Service of Florida.The Department of Transportation held a “flying car” demonstration flight between Tampa and St. Petersburg on Friday as part of its efforts to help the maturing Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) field envisioned to one day move people and goods short distances through the air.“These can be used potentially as an air taxi service,” DeSantis said at Tampa International Airport. “You think about some areas you want to avoid by car. You can have a situation where these are operating almost like a rideshare, a cargo delivery, medical transportation, emergency response missions. There’s a whole host of things that these eVTOL aircraft would be able to do. It’s the closest thing that we have right now to flying cars.”Friday’s demonstration --- part of