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Re:Terrafugia's flying car model has been approved for tests... by blktiger on Monday December 21, 2015 @10:24AM (#10771464)
It looks like the TF-X is planned to be an autonomous flying vehicle. The user basically just has to tell it 3 landing areas, then the car handles takeoff and landing and calculates whether it has enough fuel/energy to get there. That said, I think we are decades away from making a system like that work. This thing looks like a seriously complicated machine since it's autonomous, has twin helicopter blades for takeoff/landing, a primary engine for cruise, and can drive on the ground. Even if they get all that to work, the maintenance on it is going to be insane.

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