For engineers, flying cars have two opposite sets of requirements ... And while parts like side-view mirrors are necessary on the ground, in the air, they create unneeded drag.

For almost as long as there have been cars and planes, people have speculated that one day we will all get around in flying cars ... wings tuck along either side of the vehicle in “car ...

New video from Alef Aeronautics shows the company's flying car prototype driving, taking off and flying over another vehicle in a simulation of a blocked traffic scenario.