Flying cars don't exist yet, but one company already wants to race them in the desert

An Australian startup called Alauda came out of stealth mode this week to announce its plans to host the world’s first “flying car” race in 2019. It built its own scaled-down prototype, a racecar-shaped quadcopter called the Alauda Mark 1 Airspeeder, that it plans on testing in 2018. And naturally it’s taken to Kickstarter to raise money to fund all its efforts.It’s a twist on the typical story we hear these days about flying cars. While most engineers and developer