What is it like to pilot something like a flying car? Our reporter Gideon Lewis-Kraus took to the skies in a BlackFly, an “electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle,” or eVTOL, made by the company Pivotal. “I had a feeling of lightness and agility in the air,” he writes. “The machine felt alive to my touch. The company had disabled cruise mode, limiting me to an airspeed of about 30 miles an hour—something they said they’d done to prevent me from accidentally slipping to a higher performance