5 Jul
2015
5 Jul
'15
11:41 p.m.
On Sun, 5 Jul 2015 15:36:34 -0400, jonetsu(a)teksavvy.com wrote:
On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 03:19:30 +1000 (EST)
"Patrick Shirkey" <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote:
Please, it's off-tropic, but a really serious topic.
I'm a 48 years old German, owner of an unlimited bike and <= 7.5 tons
car driving licenses for 30 years now. Your claim isn't true and
never has been true. A lot of cars owned by Germans don't reach 160
Km/h, the Wiki claims, that assumed it's allowed to drive as fast as
you want, 30% drive faster then 150 Km/h. The recommended maximum speed
is 130 km/h and often there are speed limits below 130 Km/h. However,
while I agree that some people like to drive 200 Km/h for a short
range, less people consider to drive that fast, when being a long time
on the Autobahn, at least not those of us, who never caused a crash.
Blinking the light against slower drivers is borderline. If you're
doing it being under minimum distance it could become an offence.
Keep in mind
- Laws of physics are the same all over the world and we only have got
one life
- Costs and environment protection
- Driving experience and boast
Only German idiots drive as idiots do. Usually very stupid people,
inexperienced people, tuning their cars, regarding audio e.g. with
2 * 275 Watt car hifi.
http://www.duw-tuner.de/CarHifi/Endstufen---Verstaerker/
I guess the seminude women lead to the target group.
A lot of those young illiterate men, who drive rockets kill others and
them self in car accidents and before they die, they often are already
deaf when around 20 years old.
Please, when ever driving on the German Autobahn, don't risk to kill
yourself and especially don't risk to kill others. Drive in the sane way
you are used to drive.
Ok, Maybe it should just say driving round the
country and getting
paid for it. However I was under the (false) impression that all
y'all Germans love blasting your way around the country at top speed
so that would be a positive not a negative. I mean you guys invented
the concept right?
AFAICT, no such thing. If you only do 160 km/h you stick on the middle
lane. People in the left lane drive faster and will blink the lights
towards slower drivers. On portions of the highway that are made for
this (not all). But this is not "auto mania" as in English countries,
USA for instance. Although some exists in Germany (witness products
sold in stores) it is not representative of people doing 190+ km/h. It
just makes sense to drive at these speeds. 160 km/h, at least when I
lived there, was family speed. In English countries this would be
outrageous.