Just like in the movies!

Terrafugia, a firm from Woburn, Mass., recently released their "flying car" into the market with a whopping $194,000 price tag attached to it. The Transition is said to be bridging the gap between automobiles and aircrafts and so the company, founded by MIT students, prefers to call it as a "roadable aircraft." This is not the first attempt of the humankind to make a flying car. As early as 1949, the first flying car was launched by Aerocar, a Longview, Wash. but it never went for commercial production. This time, the Transition has been in production and productions for it have been funded already, in time for its delivery in 2010. The company admitted that aside from advances in materials and propulsion technologies, the easing of government regulation on private aircraft and pilot licensing paved the way for this advancement.

How long do you think will it take for this technology to reach our shores? The hybrid-power cars haven't been commercialized very well yet so I reckon we've still got a long way to go. And I realize the "teleporting car" from the movie Back to the Future might not be that impossible anymore, though I'm quite sure they will be needing more than Physics and other scientific knowledge.