A Jetsons future? Assessing the role of flying cars in sustainable mobility

Tuesday, April 9, 2019 - 19:10 in Mathematics & Economics

In the 1960s animated sitcom The Jetsons, George Jetson commutes to work in his family-size flying car, which miraculously transforms into a briefcase at the end of the trip. A new study of the environmental sustainability impacts of flying cars, formally known as electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, or VTOLs, finds that they wouldn’t […]

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