In 2006, he and four co-founders opened Terrafugia, a company with a mission to shift the reality of to the personal flying car from the airplane hangar to the two-car garage. The company's "proof of process" is the Transition, a two-seat, carbon fiber-bodied airplane that can also act as roadgoing transportation. Thanks to foldable wings that retract within approximately 60 seconds, the Transition can be driven on highways like a passenger car, and can take off on any airplane runway.