CTV News is reporting that “A Massachusetts-based aerospace company says it is developing a user-friendly, affordable flying car that will allow ‘the rest of us’ to leave the asphalt and go airborne whenever the mood — or rush-hour traffic — strikes.”  As if Toronto Island residents—all five of them—weren’t already complaining about air-traffic congestion!  As per CTV, “the TF-X won’t require a runway to take off and land. And operating the vehicle ‘should be statistically safer than driving a modern automobile,’ Terrafugia says,” especially on the 401.

Terrafugia, the company behind this car of the future, hopes to have its TF-X prototype road-and-air-ready by the 2020s, stating “early studies indicate that it is possible that the final price point could be on-par with very high-end luxury cars of today.”  An earlier model, The Transition, is supposed to hit the market in two years with a $279K price tag, in case you’re wondering what to get your godfather for Christmas who owns three Lamborghinis.

Who knows, maybe by the time TF-X is rolling off the assembly line, genetic engineering will have already added wings to our bacony friends—which would make them a lot harder to slaughter, I suppose.  But hey, if it allows a scientist to win an office bet, well, you never know…