Let's go back to a simpler time. It is the early or late 90s. You are eight years old, waking up early to catch the latest action-filled episodes of your Saturday morning cartoons; TV shows that portray what technology may look like in the future. In Japan, popular anime shows like Outlaw Star, Mobile Suit Gundam, and Cowboy Bebop. These shows would pull viewers in, giving us a taste of the future for breakfast. They would show us worlds where humans and cyborgs were almost unidentifiable from each other, where trips to space were as simple as catching a bus, or where artificial intelligence and robotics were used to better humanity (and used for epic battles in space).

Bell's concept model of a vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi vehicle, as unveiled in January at CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas. Bell's concept model of a vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi vehicle, as unveiled in January at CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas. In the not-so-distant future, you'll open your ride-hailing app and, in addition to ground options like car, SUV, scooter or bicycle, you'll see on-demand air flight. When the flying taxi comes, most of us will be passengers. We might hail it on our smartphones and head to the rooftop, where a ride is waiting at the helipad.

We are on the brink of a new era, the dawn of the flying car. On this episode, we take a look at the flying taxi. Unveiled at CES Las Vegas 2019, the Bell Nexus is a flying autonomous taxi. This hybrid electric aircraft was developed to as a essential piece of the world's first aerial rideshare network. With plans to test fly the Nexus by 2020 and a commercial launch by 2023 this vehicle is slated to be a part of Uber Air the Bell Nexus Air taxi will be one of many vehicles in the system.

The Consumer Electronics Show, the annual moot of the tech gadget industry, is always on the trippy side. But zoom in on CES's transportation options and it gets downright hallucinatory. Cars with legs, flying taxis, sensors that watch your face while you drive, robot deaths, an Uber for ... cabs. While we recover from Vegas, please be advised that what happened there last week has not stayed there. Also this week: Ford nixes Chariot, its app-based shuttle service; the largest electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft yet takes flight; and we talk to Seattle's Department of Transportation about why it buried a ramp and then dug it back up again, six years later.

The days of sitting in a taxi while it's stuck in a traffic jam could soon be a thing of the past for people in Singapore. The country's Ministry of Transport has revealed that it is in talks with companies to start trials on flying taxis. These futuristic vehicles are part of a drive to expand the range of urban mobility options, and Singapore plans to have them ready by 2030. Singapore's Ministry of Transport has revealed that it is in talks with companies to start trials on flying taxis. At the conference, Mr Keong showed three human-carrying drones that have already been prototyped.