I'd like to think that in 30 years we'd have go so far as to tear up much of the roads we have, as well. People seem to be so fixed on improving cars, making them electric, smaller, etc. Really, we need to divorce ourselves from the concept.

With many many fewer cars, more bikes and probably things like electric motorbikes, we'll need less paved surface. Convert a lot of that back to agricultural use, or better, whatever it was before (forest, prairie, savannah, etc).

I will be a happy zipcar user.

At a guess I'd say my 200W battery electric bicycle will still be running, but I can't say how many times the battery pack might have been replaced. Hopefully by then I'll have traded up to lithium. Thats my daily needs sorted.
For long trips I'll hopefully still be able to ferment a paddock of jerusalem artichokes into ethanol (and ferment sugar cane into rum ;-) in 30 years time. Maybe they'll start to tax biofuels, or make the licensing impossible in Australia..... even if they don't I hope battery technology significantly improves and I can go wind/solar electric generation, and a battery electric vehicle.

I think we need an survey for those who expect to be driving the SAME car in 30 years...

I haven't driven yet and I don't expect to start.

ok, i picked 'other' because though i agree whole-heartedly with the 'yes' response, it doesn't actually answer the question of "Will YOU be driving. . . "

So, while i think yes, we will still have cars 30 years from now, i hope i will have reached a point in my life where i can live in a place where i don't have to drive to get around on a daily basis and where there is transportation available for me to go long distances to visit family or vacation or whatever else i choose without having to drive a car.

I do think that we will always need some sort of private transport. The US is just too large to have public transport everywhere.

BTW my car is now 40 years old. I hope to still have it in 30 more years. Though it may be electrified by then.

Hopefully i'll be riding a new bicycle by then.. maybe a rivendell atlantis? i reckon my phil wood stuff will still be around.

Yep, 'cause nothing changes as quickly as Pop Mechanics and the auto show concept cars wants us to think they will.

The difference will be that we'll have fuel prices that give us in 2008 an instant nose bleed so finally alternative energy sources will have arrived.

...and there will still be people who think it's appropriate to waste is as a sign of prosperity...

I hope that maybe we will have a period in America where people get wiser and more careful with what they spend (mortgage crisis, recession) and how they plan for their future.

Mostly wishful thinking b/c we could seriously be changing how we live now but we aren't.

Personally I hope to be driving a cheap EV and still be driving the same short distances I drive now.

Cars will still exist out in the country. In urban areas, though, they will be prohibitively expensive to operate due to road tolls.

I think that in 30 years, arthritis will probably force me to give up my bike in favour of the kind of electric scooters you see the elderly using. Because by then I'll be pretty close to retirement. Unless either the demographics or my retirement fund won't be able to *let* me retire at 65.

Until that day however, I kind of expect that cycling instead of driving will stave off a spare tire, save me thousands of dollars a year, and keep my medical bills low for years to come.

What will everyone else be doing? Well, if we could power our cities with the bitching people will be doing over the price of gas, we'll be in clover. Because even optimistic predictions about when peak oil will happen place that event sometime in the next 30 years.

No, in 30 yrs. i don't even know if i will be walking. My kids will, so that should be interesting to see what kind of car they choose.My daughter is young and she doesn't want to drive when she is of age. She wants to bike to work.

Will I be driving in 30 years? As I will be 92, I probably will not be driving. Hopefully, we will have better and less stressful ways of getting from place to place that utilize clean sustainable energy sources to transport people from place to place. Public trans is the way to go really!