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    The Flying Car Gets Real

    By Gregory Mone Posted on 10.8.2008 45 Comments

    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.

    10.10.2008 at 09:03am - Comment by oblius

    How would you regulate ... air? ... traffic, by the way? The "Highway Air Traffic Act?" If the drivers of this car are anything like ones where I live, I would really hope this vehicle will be limited to the very few and very rich. But then again, a car like this would never fly (excuse the pun) in this area. Here people don't buy it unless it's jacked up 30 feet in the air on 10 foot tires and has the dirty rotten squeal of a turbo diesel. Although, this car may be useful for passing such trucks ... a quick hop maybe?



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