The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/06/06/san-mateo-company-claims-theyve-got-a-true-flying-car-taking-pre-orders-now/A local startup says their flying car is now operable, they’ve got a hype video for it, and insist they are now taking pre-orders for this $300,000 vehicle. But there may not be many places in the Bay Area you can legally fly it. You might remember back in 2017 when then-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said we’d have flying cars by the year 2020. (He was ousted as CEO two months later.) But the idea has still been flying around Silicon Valley for a while, and we noted two years ago that a San Mateo-based company called Alef Aeronautics had received FAA approval to test their flying cars.

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