From driverless cars to jetpacks: meet the tech innovators reshaping transit

A look at the tinkerers, designers and big thinkers pushing the boundaries of transportation

New Zealand-based Martin Aircraft Company's flagship product is an unconventional flying machine: a jetpack that might seem like a prop from a sci-fi movie, were it not for the fact that it's well on the road to commercialization.

In October, New Zealand's civil aviation authority cleared the company's Prototype 12 model jetpack for manned flights. The fan-propelled jetpack, when shown in June at the Paris Air Show, could soar almost 1,000 meters and fly up to half an hour. The company's jetpacks are expected to become commercially available sometime in the second half of 2016.