https://medium.com/@erin_10738/flying-cars-are-taking-off-soon-how-about-flying-boats-too-6a8ccc653d02

A laconic billboard caught my attention as I was driving north on US-101, the coastal highway leading through Silicon Valley to San Francisco. Flying cars are coming. Are you ready?

It was a pitch for the new nanodegree program “Flying Cars and Autonomous Flight” offered by Udacity, the cutting-edge distance learning platform launched by two Stanford instructors. “Flying cars and drones are the future of transportation, and they will massively change the world,” says Sebastian Thrun, Udacity’s president and the CEO of Kitty Hawk, the company that recently launched the flying taxi “Cora” and the flying car “Flyer.”