How eVTOLs Could Create a More Inclusive, Sustainable Future for Mobility

In an era of rapid technological advances, new technologies can come with both a sense of hope and caution, as society imagines how the advances may change our lives. Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing vehicles (eVTOLs) are one such technology, a long-promised flying car of sorts that could mean large-scale changes to the processes and environments in which we live. As regulators begin to incorporate new technological innovations, the time has come for architects and planners to engage in the transformative effects that advanced air mobility could have on the way we live — both the positives and the negatives. We should ask, perhaps most critically, can this technology help make the world a better place?