Reserve Your Own Flying Car

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed)
Jul 28th 2006 at 2:02PM

When we first heard about Terrafugia, the company developing one of the first flying cars that would also be able to drive on the roads, there was not yet a fully-functional, working prototype, but it is being built. The Transition drives like a car and can lower its 27-ft retractable wings when lift-off is required. It has a top speed of 130mph in the air, and gets about 30mpg whether flying or running on the road. Though the final designs are debuting this week, the cars will not be available to the public until 2009. You can put down a 5% deposit on the projected price of $148,000 right now to reserve one, though the final price is not guaranteed as of yet.

[via SciFi Tech]

Tags: airplaines, car, cars, flying car, personal aircraft, plane, Terrafugia, Terrafugia transition, the transition

Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos, Wings

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alex Jul 29th 2006 4:31AM

flying cars will never be practical, and heres why:
1. learning to drive is hard enough for some people. do you really want to try to teach 16 year olds how to fly AND drive at the same time?
and on the same note, how about teaching ANYONE how to fly these things? theres a reason you need to go to school to be a pilot.

2. theres no infrastructure. how does traffic work? air control? how many of these things will be in the air at any given time?

3. the higher you go, the harder you fall. or in this case, crash. while it may not necessarily increase the number of fatalities, it will certainly raise the visibility thereof.

4. the hit and run becomes the "lets imitate osama bin laden and crash into stuff". nuff said.

Keith Jul 29th 2006 1:31PM

What working prototype?? There is nothing but computer generated images. Do you guys even read the articles you link to?

Philip Jul 30th 2006 5:18AM

In reply to #1,

1. Flying cars will have a satnav system that has been built by NASA. It will plot a route and it will make sure that it does not interfere with any other flying car's routs. Its a fully automatic autopilot.

2. Again, Satnav will handle traffic control.

3. Several emergency systems have been planned including a recovery parachute.

4. True..