Marty McFly could never have reached 88 miles per hour in that parking lot

Doctor Emmett Brown should have been gunned down for stealing plutonium from a gang of terrorists. Marty McFly never should have kissed his mother outside the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance. And Lone Pine Mall should still be Twin Pines Mall, because there's no way that a DeLorean could have reached 88 miles per hour in the parking lot.

At least, that's the claim of a commenter over at Jalopnik's "Opposite Lock" blog, who took the time to do some math that apparently no one else ever wanted to do. First, he pulled up a map of the actual location for the scene, a mall parking lot in Industry, California. Then, using a map of the DeLorean's two routes (one when Doc sent Einstein the dog a minute into the future, one when Marty was being...

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Marty McFly could never have reached 88 miles per hour in that parking lot