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12.03.08

The Flying Car Gets Real

The team at Terrafugia is about to fulfill the fantasy of every ~~driver~~ pilot: a consumer vehicle that can take to the highways and the skies. All they have to do is finish the first one

By Gregory Mone Posted 10.08.2008 at 12:50 pm 40 Comments

Road-Ready: In Terrafugia’s Transition driving airplane, the canard wing doubles as the front bumper. John B. Carnett

The Transition is not a flying car. The vehicle, set to go on sale next year, will cruise smoothly on the road and through the sky. It will have four wheels, Formula One–style suspension, and a pair of 10-foot-wide wings that fold up when it switches from air to asphalt. And when the engineers at Terrafugia in Woburn, Massachusetts, let me sit inside their just-finished proof-of-concept vehicle and grab the steering wheel, it’s easy to imagine piloting this thing up and out of traffic, into the open skies.

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