During a Salt Lake City conference of transportation experts this week, an audience member asked when Utah should start including flying cars in its long-range transit plans.
“Last week,” Jared Esselman, aeronautics director for the Utah Department of Transportation, said Thursday during the Move Utah Summit.
“We started thinking about it about two years ago,” he added — including how small flying taxis may travel between transportation hubs, what kind of airspace capacity exists for them and possible ascent and descent rates and paths. “We’ve been thinking about all this.”
He said flying cars no longer are just science fiction from “The Jetsons” cartoons or “Back to the Future” movies.