Say what?!

Science fiction is becoming science reality.  The famous 80s cartoon The Jetsons featured flying cars amongst other things.  Now, the company Terrafugia is making some big headlines.  Although some of their prototypes have been in the works for many years, they got approved and made it to a big milestone:

First announced back in 2013, with an upgraded prototype unveiled earlier this year, Terrafugia’s TF-X flying car is about as close as the world’s gotten to our collective dream of someday commuting via cloud alleys.

And now the Massachusetts-based aircraft company has hit its next big milestone – the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has given it special permission to run in-air tests with an autonomous drone version of its flying car.

In case you want to go to the nearest dealership and pick up one of these things here are the time expectations for a full model to be made available:

Terrafugia says it’s looking at eight to 12 years of development for their flying car, but winning approval to get their scale model airborne is keeping them on track nicely. We’ll just have to wait and see what the next phase will be. Watch this space.

Congratulations to the team and we are looking forward to more updates as they come in..

thanks to sciencealert.com for the great info