Autonomous rideshare eVTOL aircraft 3D model

This is a model of autonomous rideshare eVTOL.

While traffic in L.A. has largely been relegated to underground systems, there are some allowances for surface traffic, including autonomous rideshare vehicles and motorcycles. “And then there was the idea that there could be a flying vehicle”. Reading some of the reviews they keep referring to it as a ‘flying car,’ which it isn’t — I kind of cringe and grit my teeth.” (Many in the eVTOL industry who similarly despise the term “flying car” can surely relate.)

After studying a variety of drones, the production team settled on an autonomous quadcopter concept, with the four propellers embedded in a wing structure that also acts as support. The son of a U.S. Navy pilot and no stranger to aviation, Cummings put some effort into fleshing out the concept; explaining, for example, that “the wing and the structure also forms some battery storage, and [there’s] also some solar power mixed into those big flying arcs.”