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Silicon Valley’s flying car ambitions take off, but can they solve Bay Area transit woes?

Several greater Bay Area companies are competing to bring flying vehicles to market.

Alef Aeronautics cofounder Constantine Kisly shows off a prototype of the company’s flying car under development in San Mateo, Calif., Thursday, March 6, 2025. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

FILE – People walk along a trail as the sun sets, on July 16, 2023, in Death Valley National Park, Calif. The death certificates of more than 2,300 people who died in the United States last summer mention the effects of excessive heat, the highest number in 45 years of records, according to an Associated Press analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. With May already breaking heat records, 2024 could be even deadlier. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

As temperature records shattered, one Bay Area county saw huge increase in heat deaths last year

People exit a Caltrain at the Diridon Station in San Jose, Calif., on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group)

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San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan talks as he hosts a walk-along at a homeless encampment along the Guadalupe River near Coleman Avenue in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, June 17, 2024. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)

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Second Harvest of Silicon Valley headquarters, distribution, and warehouse complex at 4553 and 4653 North First Street in north San Jose, entry area, concept.

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