Return to the future: Why should you reach 88 miles in time to travel on time?

If you love to go back to the next saga, this question may experience your mind when viewing a trilogy. Why to reach Devil Delorean at an accurate speed of 88 miles per hour for a timely journey (about 141 km/h)?

Why 88 miles per time?

If the Dox Emmet Brown explains the functionality of the temporary convector, its invention that allows us to travel in a timely manner, it does not tell us why we should spend speeds at 88 miles per hour.

To find out the answer, you need to contact the co -founders of the film, Bob Gill. The latter talked about this topic during the interview Comics. Com In 2017. “There are two reasons for this. First of all, we wanted it to be the speed in which a person would not accidentally be guided”He explained.

It’s easy to remember. Everyone remembers 88 miles per hour.

“On the other hand, it’s easy to remember. Everyone remembers 88 miles.He said. If it is easy to remember Figure 88, why does the script author at speed that no one would go by accident?

President puts a salt grain

To find out, you have to go back about 45 years back. Jimmy Carter, President of the United States in 1977 and 1981, was concerned about avoiding traffic accidents. So that drivers do not try to spend an open grave, it has had a law that blocks car meters for 85 miles per hour (136 km/h).

The latter, still in force during the shooting of the future, forced Bob Gale and director Robert Zemekis to choose 88 miles because they knew that fans could not reach that speed as in the film.

The trilogy accessories were obliged to replace the Deloran speed meters used in the film. Thus, in some plans, we see that the meter indicates a maximum speed of 95 miles per hour (see photo above).

In France, the top speed authorized on the highway is 130 km/h (81 miles per hour), so we cannot travel in time.