·        A Japanese company called SkyDrive has just tested a single-seat prototype for its electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle, a.k.a. a flying car, at Toyota Test Field.

·        The SD-03 can land in a spot the size of two parking spaces and in production form will seat two—one of whom will be a pilot.

·        That doesn't sound too efficient for taxi purposes, but the project has Toyota backing and aims to have flying taxis in the air by 2023.

Have you ever seen a drone buzzing overhead and thought, "Why couldn't they just scale that up and carry people around in it?" And then, after watching that drone crash spectacularly, have you ever said, "Oh, I guess that's why not"? Sure you have. Nonetheless, electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOLs, as they call them in the biz) look like the odds-on favorites to deliver on the promise of the flying car. And last week the world inched a bit closer to that Fifth Element reality when a Japanese company called SkyDrive conducted a manned test flight at Toyota Test Field.

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