The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition that Canadians feel both "optimism and concern" over the prospect of flying cars and drones whizzing between remote communities and above city blocks, a new report says. A Canadian Press dispatch to The Globe says that the Leger study commissioned by Transport Canada found residents hold a broadly positive attitude toward so-called advanced air mobility, which refers to both drones and electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eVTOLs) -- drones' larger, typically human-piloted cousins. Despite limited knowledge of the futuristic transport mode, respondents liked advanced air mobility's potential for search and rescue, firefighting, medical use and other critical services, the survey showed. Comfort with those three uses of the technology in urban areas hovered at around 80 per cent. However, transporting people, rather than things, notched below 50 per cent in favour. Last week, Boeing pledged $240-million toward a Montreal-area aerospace cluster that will include advanced air mobility research pertinent to its Wisk Aero subsidiary, which makes self-flying taxis. More than three-quarters of respondents to the Leger survey had never heard of advanced air mobility.