More than a dozen well-funded European, US and Chinese firms are in the race to create a new form of urban transport that is a cross between a driverless electric car, a drone and a short-haul, vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
Here are some companies which have made headlines with their visions of what personal mobility would look like in the near future:
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