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. We’ve got you covered.

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. Let’s get you caught up.

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CES Lidar Display of the Week

We are not always narcissists, but we were tickled by lidar company AEye’s CES display. Inspired by a WIRED video that asked whether a competitor’s company could “see” Nerf gun bullets, the AEye's foam- and bull's-eye-filled display sought to prove that its product could.