That should not present much of a difficulty, given that the Transition has been designed as an aircraft from the start-instead of merely having wings attached to a car body.

These are mostly "easy things" like fiddling with aerodynamics or pumping coolant "on demand", says Hans Rathgeber, BMW's head of vehicle architecture.

The RTLS solution USES a matrix of sensors, one for each zone, to receive radio signals emitted from an active RFID tag affixed to the automobile's frame.