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Cars of the future are being perfected right here

BOSTON – While Silicon Valley is almost synonymous with anything tech-related, Greater Boston is carving out a niche for itself in tech innovations for the cars of the future. Several large projects and companies working on making self-driving cars a thing of the present call Beantown home. And Woburn-based Terrafugia is

Massachusetts

Boston-bred company making flying cars a thing of the present

Forty-year-old Carl Dietrich brown bags his lunch or grabs something on the fly at a local Bickford's between meetings with engineers, investors and FAA regulators. There's a lot of tweaking to do before the flying cars he and his friends invented go into full-scale production at