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Terrafugia Transition

Claiming to be the “first practical flying car,” the Transition certainly lives up to its name. It looks very much like the first draft it is, with a front end that appears to have been designed in the late 1980s and the overall sleekness of a brick. The wings fold in while the car is in drive mode, then stretch out, along with the tailpiece, to turn the car into a small sport plane. While folded in, the Transition is small enough to park in a standard single car garage. Once airborne, the Transition has a range of 400 miles and a top speed of 100 mph. Terrafugia has also been developing advanced autonomous flight technologies, including terrain avoidance, to keep it in the air when not in drive mode.