With all the technological advances, how fast will we be traveling in the year 2020?

Technological advances aside, you'll still have to deal with idiots. Rush hour will still be a stop and then go @ 10mph.

We won't be around in 2020...Remember, the world is going to end!!!!

j/k

We will prolly be going bout the same speed...There will prolly be different looking cars that might have a higher top speed, but I'm sure the speed limits won't change. There will prolly be faster aircrafts, but I doubt much will change on the ground. Who knows...

The real answer:

Maybe a bit faster, maybe the same. Capabilities may well be faster, but that doesn't mean that the general public will be going faster.

The answer many people want to hear:

We will be going at a million mega billion quadrouple tons of trillions of millions of billions of mega miles faster.
This is due to the new hyper anti matter macdonalds chilled watermelon scodoodle reactor that is going to be invented. We will be going so fast that we can see the space time continum and actually give birth to ourselves.

computers and infromation will be faster but cars and things will be the same except for the look.

I don't see where many things will much different, Mabe the net and a few other technology things but we wont be traveling around that much faster.

Yeah but I want to go so fast that I can feel my face being pushed back as the wind rushes past.. Oh man what a rush..

Slow down wild man we don't want your face pushed so far back we no longer know it is you.

As a retired transportation engineer, I have to agree. If anything, traffic will be worse than now (think, has it ever gotten better? )

60s/pm

someone watched i robot-only in the movies

Not if we banish the cars and leave the streets for bicycles. A modern Trek bicycle can easily be ridden at 35 mph. Rush hour now averages about 5 mph in several major cities.

That's just how the folks that aren't lazy will get to work on time.

Seriously though, we'll still need some kind of vehicles that can transport kids to and from school, load up lots of groceries, and whatnot.

The world doesn't end until 2038, actually. But I have to agree about travel speeds. Rush hour commutes will be a bit slower than they are today, because of increased congestion. Freeway speed limits may go up a little, but nothing dramatic.

I know i will be sorry for this but.. How do you 2038 live will end.?

Chimichangas? Giant, killer, chimichangas?

Look at how things have changed over the last ten years, and that would be a good scale to use for how much things will change untill then.

Since Oil prices are going up and the supply is going away, I'd say we're going to be traveling between walking speed and mass transit speeds.

Good call on that.

Well at least the Americans will be heathy again!

Yea, but how long do you think it will be before everyone starts producing electric cars instead of gas powered? That plus another 15 years of technological advances to make the electric cars go faster (they go slower than gas powered cars), and we'll probably be going the same speed. They wouldn't want us going too fast (there are enough hitting and accidents already), unless they made some new sort of brake that stopped you fully right when you pressed the brake, and that would be dangerous, requiring full body and head restraints to keep from getting really bad whiplash. So I'm guessing the same, but with electric cars.

60s/pm = 60seconds per minute. A bad joke that no one got. Hooray for humour

You lost me on that one.. way to go.

I was wondering what that was... I didn't wanna ask if it was seconds per minute because I didn't wanna look dumb, heh.

We definitely won't be driving in hover cars like in "I Robot" I can assure you, and that was in 2032 I believe. With the gas prices as they are and we so dependent on patrolium products we can't afford not to cont using gas.

walking speed.

sure the technology to travel at high speeds will be there --however with the capitolistic and global economic pressure on the resources will be so high that there will be no economic base for such travel except for the filthy rich.

Walking is good. Biking is good. Rollerblading is good. Can you imagine Fifth Avenue filled with happy citizens walking, biking and blading? Yes, we will need electrical trains of robotic electrical buses. If that makes no sense, go read my book UFOs, PSI and Spiritual Evolution. And there will have to be several sizes of delivery vehicles, ranging from bus size, down to little 3 wheelers, with methanol engines for delivering Pizza, clothing purchases, the groceries, and so forth.

Humans are adaptable. That is what got us through the last Ice Age, and hopefully through the next one, scheduled to start...let me look at my watch...oh about 5000 years ago. Greenhouse gases have postponed it, but not eliminated it.

Be that as it may, it would make sense to go ahead and pretend the oil and natural gas has run out...since it will soon, though it is impossible to say exactly when. Methanol can be made from from pig sh**, cow sh**, and chicken sh**, all in abundant supply. It can also be made from coal, and maybe even from black shale, the largest single reservoir of fossil fuels.

Of course, we will have to wean ourselves from fossil fuels someday...in the next 200 years. The first and most important way is conservation. Walking instead of driving. Creating buildings that have a net zero pull off the energy grid. We know how; it is just a matter of doing it. Biomass can provide the feedstock for methanol. We could grow salt-loving plants in the desert and irrigate them with sea-water. There is an article about that in the latest Scientific American.

~~~~~~~~~~Dr.H, Wizard Welder of the Steel Circle~~~~~~~~~~~~~

i presume not that much faster. hopefully some day we will have teleportation stations where you walk in and boom...you're at your destination. no need to travel by vehicle.

i assume you meant gaping the bridge to the speed of light. we will never achieve anything much greater than what we are at now. it will take more that 15 yrs to achieve anything such as a spacecraft flying closer to the speed of light. the reason being that it would take almost and infinite amount of energy to jsut move a tid-bit faster.