Driving On The German Autobahn vs. US Highways - No Speed Limit? Busting Autobahn Myths!
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2022
- In Germany, driving a car is a privilege like nowhere else, and the German highway - the Autobahn - is a worldwide symbol for unlimited speeding. Here, everyone is allowed to drive as fast as they like. But is that really true? And what other myths exist about the autobahn? Euromaxx reporter Meggin Leigh set out on the famous autobahn to find out what's true, and what's not.
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In the USA it is NOT legal to pass on the right. Drivers in the USA do not follow the rules.
I think she needs to learn how to drive in USA.
@@franciscoalvarez2875 I think you’re correct.
there is nothing wrong with the north american road system ..........its the drivers that need to smarten up
@@kurtwollermann2210 I agree. Drivers in the US think they’re the best, yet are some of the worst drivers I e encountered around the world.
That's factually incorrect. It is absolutely legal to pass on the right in thr US.
I drove in Germany last April -Frankfurt to Nuremberg and it was really good!! I love driving in high speed but I respected when I saw some signs to reduce the velocity . Trucks drivers don’t threaten small cars . It was a great experience and I will repeat more often when I am there.🇧🇷❤️🇩🇪
Olá amigo, tenho muita vontade de fazer o mesmo. Foi tranquilo validar sua carteira de motorista?
Autobahn is fun just follow the rules ie speed limits are heavily enforced
Não é necessário. Sua carteira vale 12 meses antes de você precisar uma licença do país. Já dirigi na Autobahn, e você vai achar muito frustrante. Nos lugares onde a velocidade é realmente livre, que, cuidado, não são muitos, TODOS vão estar muito mais rápido que você e você vai estar na direita nervosa. Nem tente ir para a esquerda que os alemães vão ficar furiosos, vão te engolir com farinha e vão te colocar no lugar que você tem que estar.
Truck drivers don't threaten small cars due to most car drivers adhering to certain rules of the road and respecting their larger brethren. I spent 2 years in the 80's there good times
Trucks drivers *don’t usually* threaten small cars but sometimes they do. I was once driving on the right lane and that trucker was overwhelming me by keeping less than 7 meters behind me in a very heavy rain. I exited the Autobahn just to get rid of him.
I have driven on the Autobahn many times over the last 40 years and loved every minute of it. I have always been amazed at the general courtesy displayed by the other drivers and it is so refreshing to share the Autobahn with like minded drivers. The sections of "no speed limit" are well chosen with good visibility and straight road with no high gradient or curves. The Autobahn is engineered for high speed and when combined with educated drivers is as safe if not safer than any speed controlled highway. It sets the example of what can be achieved if the people who use the roads are responsible, courteous and properly trained to use such a road system. Unfortunately not all countries see driver education as relevant or even necessary once they have passed their initial driving test. The lunatics I encounter on a daily basis here on West Australian roads would not last five minutes on the Autobahn without causing death and destruction and yet the authorities here continue to concentrate solely on speed reduction as a means of reducing the road toll. The Autobahn proves that speed does NOT kill unless it is combined with another ingredient such as alcohol, drugs, stupidity, complacency, ignorance or arrogance, all of which can be addressed by proper legislation and education. Long may the Autobahn remain speed limit free as it is today.
Very well said, mate! 👏👏👏👏👏
I haven't yet driven the Autobahn, but I have driven in the Japan expressways, and I was also very happy driving there with how they respected lane discipline. I gotta say that the speed limits tended to be low and that the Japanese went faster. However, lane discipline was always respected and there was a general sense of safety driving there.
Rules and discipline free us.
The drivers in Germany is the ONLY reason why the autobahn exists. Very well cultured and disciplined drivers compared to the rest of the world.
That could be true - the German driving exam is notoriously rigorous!
Don't forget German cars.
Try the Autobahn in the Ruhrgebiet. You are always stuck in traffic jams. No speeding possible
The famous Ruhr Stehweg
The topic of the video is not covered at all. Just go out on a Sunday when there are no trucks and drive 20-30 km on the highway with no speed limit. It's really relaxing.
Agreed. What a short and ineffective video. Very little was covered.
It is a 5 minute video, what do you expect a Dissertation? 😅
@@user-gn9vu7wn7t A smiling woman that said little about the Autobahn. What is the point of this video? CZcams has so many quality videos. This video should be downvoted, IMO.
1. We in Germany have well mantained cars (no junks, good tyres, etc)
2. People actually check their mirrors and use the signal lights
3. Nobody sleeps on the 3rd lane (like I experienced în US)....you pas somebody, then back on 2 lane...
So there is no point on having a speed limit, for every inch on the autobahn.....BUT....we need to forget using the phones while driving....speed doesnt kill, lack of attention does it !!!
The price of gas is its own speed limit.
(:
Not really. If you look at salaries, the time savings from extra speed is often worth more than the cost savings from driving slower. After doing the math, I now drive as fast as safely possible.
Have fun with that. LMFAO
Time is money.
@@tvflight7858 until you're using 100 litre Bugatti tank in 110 km lol.
@@TimpBizkit If someone can afford it I have no problem with that. Go as fast as you want as long as you keep a safe distance and are respectful to the other commuters.
Just completed my trip to Germany on the autobahn and i must say the autobahn is very well regulated and drivers have sense of safety generally. Coming from southeast asia, we have similar highway in Malaysia, although the highways have a speed limitation of 110km/h, drivers generally ignore the speed limits and go in excess on 200km/h with "competitions" between drivers.
Malaysia is the in the world , don't expect anything from it
The meticulous and conscientious nature of German culture, as exemplified by things like the the rules governing the Autobahn, how Germans emphasize punctuality, and the precise engineering in their products, is why I have such fondness for it. So many other nations would do well to emulate this mentality.
Could you specify that german made product impressed you?
@@RohanSanjiththe video is about German infrastructure, why don't you connect the dots
Brother did you just regurgitate a thesaurus?
50 years ago, there was a meticulous nature in German culture.
Today with huge immigration in Germany, the situation is quite different.
Autobahn is the safest highway in the world
Not really have to been on it ?
I am from Germany and think indeed that our Autobahns are one of the bests on this planet. However over the last few decades Germany had become one big Baustelle (roadworks) and very, very busy with a lot of traffic jams. Although it is allowed to drive at high speed at some places, one has to be very aware of foreign drivers who are not used to Thijs and make the dombest mistakesbecause they have no clue what is happening when other drives do 200 km +. In my several trips to the USA i found it relaxing that the speed was regulated. The “keep your lane” principel one has to get used to but I think it’s great. So when you come over here, please be fully aware that we indeed sometimes drive very fast but the Autobahn is not a track!
Here in California, I call the left lane the narcissist lane. Narcissists enter the freeway and cut straight across to the left lane because they think it's where they get to take it easy. When you come up behind them, do they move over to the right and let you pass? Of course not. They glare at you in the mirror and slow down because it's their job to police speeders. The red on your face and smoke coming out of your ears is proof to them that you're an evil person and they're doing right by keeping you in line. They will match the speed of the person next to them to ensure you can't pass on the right, but if you finally get the opportunity to do so, they will speed up to prevent you getting in front of them and before you know it, you're both doing 100mph, even though their original goal was supposedly keeping the road safe from speeders. When you finally do get in front of them, they slow back down and wait for their next victim. Then, when they are a hundred feet from their exit, they cut back across all lanes at the last minute and just barely make the off-ramp. I have been seriously considering moving to Germany. I'm longing to live among mature people and enjoy driving.
CA does not have a monopoly on campers; they're everywhere. Even with little traffic, these clowns will shoot across the freeway as soon as they get on and camp out. These are the worst people on the freeway.
😂😂
Not just that, but many don't use blinkers. California is regressing to Far West status.
There are tons of crappy drivers on the autobahn so youll meet them there too
The myth of unlimited speed has been busted by insurances and courts a long time ago. At speeds above 130 kmh, the driver always shares liability in case of an accident, by virtue of that speed, even when driving faultlessly - should be enough to throttle to reasonable speeds!
That's just dumb, I drive 90mph in US high ways and the cops don't care
@@Brain_With_Limbs You can drive 180 mph here if you dare! That regulation is a peeve for speeders like you are, but these are dumb if they don't account for slower traffic. Mind you, we don't have as many empty roads as you have.
I drive 130mph on U.S highways
that's a great idea too. that would motivate me to only drive fast when there is no traffic around me.
great......................................@@fasthighwaydriver59732
I’m half German and when I did the G1 test in Canada, I failed the first time but I would’ve passed if it wasn’t for one simple question. It was “where can you pass”. Growing up w a German family I was always taught only on the left, even when driving in Canada. Well in Canada, it’s legal to pass on the left or the right, so I failed that time. Now I have a g2, which is pretty much a full license. Driving in North America you need to simply be patient and aware. I just try to be patient as I know Canadian and American drivers are really dumb and don’t have/follow rules nor do they have societal unwritten rules.
You realise failing one question you'll still pass the g1... Lol
In North America, it's only 1 rule that matter. How fast were you going. And it's all at the cop's discretion. It's long overdue to put limits at 80-85 mph outside cities, install cameras and take that responsibility away from cops. Also, variable limits need to be implemented too.
I was driving 120mph 4 days a week while driving 300+ miles per day working as a speed courier. I used a Crown Vic retired police car, that was the only way to keep the fast lane free and clear of slower drivers. I did that for over 6 years before getting hit while stopped at a red light.... that was 2 years ago and I've been disabled ever since. It hurts too much to drive anymore and it was all I was good at.
Last time I drove before I left my country of birth was around 40 years ago. At that time in the area of Aachen/Koeln(Cologne), there were no speed limits at all. Yes I have done 220km/h but in general the majority would drive anywhere between 130km/h ~ 160km/h. and this was in good weather and fairly low traffic. At night or rain 99% of drivers would do between 120km/h ~ 130km/h. I do remember signs that suggested 110km/h in wet weather or snow. But the stretches that I spend most time on were in excellent conditions, so 120/130km/h were safe to drive.
before 1972 we had absolutely nowhere a speed limit in germany only in town,s since 1957
The German man in the video definitely shares my opinion on the Autobahn and speed limits!
Saying there are not many rules on the U.S. Interstates isn't necessarily true. There are drive-right, pass-left laws on the books in almost all the states, and they are starting to be more rigorously enforced, especially in the Western states with the 75-80 mph speed limits. For example, camping in the left lane in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas can earn you a reckless driving or impeding traffic violation with up to a $600.00 fine for a first offense.
Should be that way in every state.
The problem is!!!Are cops enforcing those rules. Over 90% of troopers only care about how fast you we're going. A backwards thinking that ignores bad driving behaviors.
Best kept secret for unlimited high speed: the three Autobahn "corridors" between what used to be West Berlin and West Germany.
They have been totally rebuilt and for long stretches are mostly empty. Bundesautobahn #2 going to Magdeburg, #9 going south, passing Leipzig and #24 going north towards Wolfsburg (VW) and Hannover.
What makes the Autobahn so different? High quality engineering ...no boop-boop, boop-boop or crazy gaps that would be sending you airborne when passing a bridge or overpass. One seamless ribbon of comfortable high speed driving.
Ive driven in Portugal, Croatia and Italy. Maybe Spain too. They are all mad as cut snakes but with much better etiquette than other countries. A speed limit wont change a thing. Especially in Italy where people speed right past speed cameras because for whatever reason, theyre not used on the autostrada.
3:22 we had a national speed limit in the US, but really, it should be more like Germany, only have some parts of interstate with limits, because these wide open western states are so rural that doing only 70 or 75, 80 even, just takes so, sooo long to get places, because you have to cover so, so, so much ground.
I mean back when it was 55 that was silly, but now plenty of the highway is 70 and some places have 85mph even as the limit. I don’t think I trust the average random person going much faster. I trust myself to, but I am fine with the limit. I have the ability to drive very fast, but there is always the one time a deer will cross or someone will drift in the lane. I once even had to move out of the way of a car going in the wrong direction.
@@Buffalosabskisthing is, higher limits will make for more useful passing lanes so people don't feel entitled to hog the left lane when going 5 over. Speed limits aren't meant to be minimum speeds, but due to poor planning, that's what they are now. Also, Massachusetts still has the plague of 55 and 65 mph and even 45 mph highways where nobody follows the limit.
Me driving from Ms to Alabama
I don’t like driving in Germany and avoid it if possible. Always got to be aware of speeding missiles in your mirror when overtaking. The trucks are doing 90 km/h and the speed difference with some drivers is way too much. And I don’t know what asphalt they use but it get pretty slippery when raining. And although constantly working on the road it still looks like patchwork. I like the Dutch and Scandinavian highways a lot more. The only remark I have on the Scandinavian highway is the constant changing of the speed limit, it can become very costly if you’re not paying attention.
If you talk about the asphalt conditions please keep in mind that Germany is located in the centre of Europe and is a transit country with gazillions of loaded trucks harming the street surface. Constant maintenance is a must.
I lived in Bavaria for about 18 mos. Drive the Autobahn many times. I really liked it, had a BMW at the time and really enjoyed it. Bummer was driving in the USA..you were passing in the left lane, seeing blinking head lights, move over fast!
I wish we had the same rules in the US as in Germany. People are so distracted over here in the US. I live here, but am over in Germany often. You would get run over in Germany if you were left lane parking, doing the limit or not!
US highways have plenty of rules, they just aren't enforced or effectively taught.
Love Andre's Citroën CX -- I owned one when I lived in Germany! Fun driving on the Autobahn at elevated speeds *for a few minutes* then stressful -- indeed as others have said, different cars and trucks travelling at various speeds, plus the superfast BLW's and Mercedes's showing up seemingly from nowhere! Switzerland does it better -- speed limit is 130kph -- does anyone really need to go any faster?
Interesting aside, visited Switzerland very often, hanging out with a group of Swiss young adults, I asked if they had ever been to Germany.. Answer: Sure, once -- to see how fast our cars could go!
Absolutely true! In the Southwest of Germany we daily witness reckless driving by Swiss car owners not being able to handle the speed
Bulgaria has 140km/hr but like in Italy & Spain nobody follows it everybody speeds up.
❤❤❤ Was viele Journalisten und Programmmacher anscheinend vergessen: Wenn Sie in einen Unfall verwickelt sind und die Höchstgeschwindigkeit von 130 überschritten haben, zahlt Ihre Versicherung die Kosten nicht. Das habe ich vor 10 Jahren gelernt.
My only chance to drive the unlimited speed sections of the autobahn was in a 1993 Ford Escort station wagon with 6 adults squeezed in. Top speed was a blistering 78mph....oh well.
It's so odd when people blur out license plates when they drive all around town exposing them to everyone. So weird
I recently came to realise how strange it is..
It is mandatory in Germany to blur out everything that seem private and that includes the licence plates.
@@marioalexanderski9598 Sure. You missed the whole point. They are driving around exposing them in public. A person can see one blurred on the screen then walk outside and see the same plate exposed.
@@coul How would they know it is the same plate...?
Yes, it’s not like Sweden where you submit the registration number and receive a text message with name and adress of the owner within seconds.
Just look at how super light the autobahn traffic is. It's like Sunday morning traffic and they only use 2 and very rarely 3 traffic lanes vs our 8 or 10 lanes of traffic
She topped off at 125 mph which is 202 kph.
Is that a fact
@@user-bm4ic4kx2w did you not watch the video?
1:19 the way he laughs is awesome (fkn dr maxis laugh)
Very disciplined and responsible drivers mostly. Autobahn is the modern identity of Germany ! Love to drive in autobahn..... Love it.
The only problem I see is the "owing left lane" behavior of slow drivers in the "no speed limit" zones, This is very annoying.
"im pro the speed limit" whilst driving 120+ kmh in a 120 kmh speed limit
She was fully aware of the fact that the indicated speed limit was meant per car axle 😂😂😂
A _static_ speed limit is just stupid. There is a world of difference between december darkness with sleet and snow and rush hour traffic and the exact same road early a summer Sunday morning with no one about.
I find the Autobahn relaxing. I don't drive very fast, normally around 130 - certainly not fast in such dense traffic we saw in the video when she was slowing down - and I can use my mirrors rather than look at the speed meter. If the road is empty I might go up to 160-170 but that is rare and more like if I have a ferry to catch.
“I don’t feel anything” at 200+ km/ h. True until something goes wrong. Then it’s lights out.
It's been over 40 years ago since drove on the Autobahn, and I did get caught one up by Cologne in a high cross wind section and it cost me 75 DM at the time. There was another when I was driving up by Frankfurt and the American MPs tried to limit me to 55 mph, when I showed the Desk Sargent my Canadian NATO license, the E-4 who stopped me got told.
LOL 😂 Just for my interest: How was MP able to cut you down to a certain speed limit if local laws said otherwise?
@@heindaddel2531 Back at that time, 1979-81, the US Forces were limiting the vehicles with US plates to 55 mph, I had Red and White Canadian plates on my VW Type 3 fastback, and he thought they were a special American Forces plates. I know doing 55 on the Autobahn is really dangerous, big trucks are limited to 90km/h or 62 mph, and I already been warned once for parking in the PX parking lot in general parking, except general parking meant General parking, like for Generals, so I wanted to screw around with him when he stopped me, they thought they owned Germany too. Nothing else happened and by thec way, by the time the parking paperwork made it down to me, it was 26 pages long, everyone and his dog added a page to it.
3:26 Interesting what he says there.
I have a Lotus Evora GT modified and tuned to over 500bhp. It can go almost 190 mph maybe more (II think but will never know in the US). I wish we had an autobahn.
A major difference is also that the Autobahn has no crossings only bridges and is fenced in in many if not all areas.
Gut und sehr interessant.🦋👊
Have a look at UK motorway shenanigans: zero (lane)discipline, tailgating is rife, undertakes, you name it.
And like the US, UK's answer is not to improve driver skills, but to add more lanes.
Go figure..... 🤷🏼♂️
We lived in Germany during the 80s. I never liked driving on the auto bahn. Our car wasn't made to go 100 miles an hour. So at times very stressful.
So blame it on your car and/or your driving skills , not on the Autobahn 😂
The biggest advantage is you can drive a modern diesel car in Germany for the best range on those long stretches. In the US, you drive huge gasoline cars which are thirsty and everyone makes their own rules on the interstates.
Because Troopers could care less about what STOOPIDITY drivers commit. As long as it's within the posted limit. Very backwards approach.
The biggest No-Go on German Autobahn is driving in the middle lane for no reason. If everyone drives right and only uses the middle lane or left lane for passing, there wouldn't be anyone who feels urged to pass illegally on the right. They do it perfectly wrong at 1:46.
🎉🎉🎉 What many journalists and programmakers? Seem to forget is when you are involved with an accident. And you drove over the 130 limits? That your insurance won't pay and cover the costs. That's what I learned 10 years ago.
1:53 - so rather than moving over to the right hand lane, as she should, this "journalist" wants to claim that a car almost hit her. Lady! You are the reason so many Germans are frustrated with autobahn drivers, because you don't adhere to the rules and drive at a mediocre speed in the middle lane. MOVE OVER!!!!!!!!
Boring...what a snooze. what a fascinating gentleman. An episode of him speeding to gigs would be awesome TV.
You need the German quality engineered cars to go safely at those speeds, the for average speed it's always really low in Germany compared to say France as there is too much road works in Germany... permanently
1:44 the car overtakes on the left - isn't that what you're supposed to do? I"m confused
They veered to the right. Stay dead center in the lane if you’re not doing it already
also, the reporter's car is cruising in the middle lane... should stay right
The advisory speed limit on the autobahn is 130km/h (80mph)
They tailgate as bad as the U.S. in France. Also, technically, it is NOT legal to pass on the right in the U.S. (at least as far as I know). There are sections of the autobahn where there is no speed limit. Not very long in the instances I saw
In Germany regularly and nothing better than getting to the German border at Aachen where it's immediately deristricted and going straight to 150mph
Lived in Augsburg 1982/1990 courtesy of U.S. Army. LOVED the Autobahn. Had a Mercedes 230 Sedan and drove it like I stole it.
love this!
There is speed limit 65 Miles per hour like IN US .I have gone many places by car and did not see no speed limit
Speed limit is just the easiest way to regulate the drivers, at least in the eyes of the governments. There are people from all parts of the world driving on the autobahn and they understand and respect the rules when driving on the unlimited sections. This education and sense of responsibility is the key, not the speed limit itself.
I'm not sure most cars are safe to drive at 200kph(?!)...
We lived in Germany for 6 years and it was my wife's advice that I followed. If you have no business in the far left lane, don't go there. If you have the unlimited sign you better be driving in excess of 260 KM/H otherwise you will be tailgated. I'm always looking in the rear view mirror and move over before the faster car gets to me. Most people observe that rule, better than 90%. Lucky my 2013 Shelby GT500 will do better than 340 KM/H (200+ MPH). It's very rare that you can keep the high speeds for distances because of autobahn maintenance that is always going on.
i was in Germany back in 1976, i wasn't driving, but the car i was in was going really, really fast, 2 Porsche were racing? maybe not, but they blew by us so fast it kinda scared me. Here in America, just because you have a license, doesn't mean you know how to drive! I drove Taxi for 20 years, believe me when i say, most people don't know their cars, courtesy, attention to rules, limits, and respect for Law Enforcement just trying to keep the roads safe!!!
Rather easy to get a driver license in the USA. I worked for some German nationals who were surprised how little you had to know to get one
2:59 Offcourse no one thinks that the Autobahn idea was from Adolf but the conception that he first developed it is not a myth. It was the first controlled access expressway in the world.
Like your videos
Love 🧡 the Autobahn
Love 🧡 Germany 🇩🇪
He owns over 15 cars!!
So 16 cars then?
Driving on German autobahn is fun but it can be very stressful sometimes.
God i wish my state had an hdi and overall infrastructure equivalent to that of germany.......unfortunately we are 0.239 hdi points behind 😢
Y god Y !!!!!!???
Truck driving at 100kph me driving at 130kph. No traffic behind for a mile so I move out to overtake. In seconds a car being driven at 250kph arrives flashing his headlights to get me out of his way. You will never convince me that all this traffic should be sharing the same road only inches apart. High speed traffic requires separate roads. It was dangerous before electronic gadgets were introduced to vehicles and is just frightening now.
Becomes even worse if you have the audacity to pass SEVERAL trucks traveling with 50 m in between. I largely avoid Germany.
Getting a speeding ticket on the Autobahn...That is just wrong.
That dude talk like a know it all homie said YEA YEA YEA I KNOW
And you talkin’ like a wanna be gangsta’, with the IQ of a dinner plate.
1:08 it's these damn 12 year olds on youtube who think that and repeatedly comment how they drive as fast as they want in Germany, because it has no limit like the US- that right there shows they're lying, because Germany DOES have limits on many sections of it. The only spots that don't are like rural interstates for the US in western states where many can (and do) drive as fast as they want, despite the 75 or 80 mph speed limit.
Yes...
How fast you drive is a choice. How well the cars brakes and tires work is not.
Interesting 🧐
Suuuuuper NICE JOURNALIST !
I wish se had a high speed rail system in the US...
The problem is it wouldn't have enough ridership to pay for it, the United States is very sparsely populated, especially in the middle where high-speed rail would actually be beneficial.
Just food for thought
The combined population of Istanbul, St. Petersburg, london., and Moscow are equivalent to a 10th of the entire population of the United States.
Also almost 42% of the US population (about 180 million) lives on the eastern coast of the country, and about 23% of US population lives near the West coast.
Furthermore, if you were to draw an imaginary line through the United States and splitting it in the middle, East and West, find out 80% of the population lives east of that line.
So there would not be enough money coming in the maintain high-speed rail linking the coasts.
People pass on the right in the US and Canada is because we have dumb drivers hogging the left lane and stay there even when the right lane becomes empty. There are road signs 'stay right unless passing'. The law rarely enforced. First world countries driving third world manner.
I have a challenge for you (from experience)
Next time you are on the freeway drive at the speed limit and stay in the right lane, follow the 3 second rule, in other words don't tailgate or attempt to pass the traffic in front of you.....
If you do this and stay 3 to 6 seconds behind ALL the traffic in front of you then you will REALLY see what is going wrong on the freeway....
It's NOT just a "left lane hog" problem, it's a nearly everyone is tailgaiting and attempting to outrace each other like we are all in a NASCAR race but we don't win any prizes for getting to the front of the pack and getting to our exit first.
Very good presentation ❤️ Love from INDIA 👍
It might not be hitlers original idea but all interstates everywhere where built by governments existing for national defense. Moving army’s acrosss the country quickly is a must for any country.
That's nonsense. The roads weren't able to handle heavy tanks. rails always were the much better choice.
Apparently fuel prices are still not high enough in Germany
Same goes for the gun ammo in the US 😂
Good car choice for this Autobahn study! VW is always confident and seamlessly integrated for this type of road and driving.. I have to point out though that a lot of the things about American freeways are false. It’s not legal to pass on any lane, only the left. There are more rules for American roads than Germany in reality, but with the character of the road dynamics you couldn’t tell. Speed limits really are just a suggestion because on stretches like I-10, 95, etc people are traveling long distances and will comfortably travel at 15-20 mph over the limit without issue. Passing can become an issue when drivers don’t move, but it’s gotten better and people seem to have woken up with all the new posted warnings. “Left lane for passing only.” Now, within a metro area the “freeway” is just a connection point for major city throughways. This becomes a “free for all” zone due to high traffic density and merging. When you go to leave this “connection point” the freeway straightens out again and drivers will act more efficiently
It’s just sad that Volkswagen used to build a lot of good cars. And now they are just junk like the Chinese cars!
She wants limits, but doesn't understand why. He doesn't understand why we need limits. What a difference of thinking. He's absolutely right. Limits don't prevent reckless driving.
Speed limits cause reckless driving in someways
@twoeightythreez Definitely. You have those that follow them by the book causing others being impeded and do certain maneuvers they shouldn't.
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no need for a speed limit cause why if everyone is aware of the gas prices and his cars consumption.
I tend to drive economically and on the pretty low end of the manufacturers consumption but sometimes i drive faster, a lot faster and I used to use all of the horses the 12 cylinder could mobilise. But that happens pretty rarely .
If oyu pay more than 2€ per liter you want to save gas for sure - except you can drive a company car but that is a totally different debate if the companies take car for their driving employees and cross check fuel consumption and asked for habit changes or not.
Get rid off the company cars would safe far more fuel than a speed limit cause those are too cheap to get and people tend to abuse it.
Habits of company car drivers are totally different than those of private owners - of cause usually and not always.
I did the math, and economically, the time saved is worth more than the additional gas cost when driving fast, even with high fuel cost. Ofc this varies by car, so you'd have to do your own math.
Cited for speeding on the autobahn 😅
Haha this host.. “pro speed limit” but does not explain the reason behind her point of view. And is also unfamiliar with her own country’s laws on overtaking. Very embarrassing.
Agree. It’s always the least competent that think they’re experts.
Per California Highway Patrol, "there is no law that prohibits you from passing them on the right".
Cal. Veh. Code 21755: The driver of a vehicle may overtake and pass another vehicle upon the right only under conditions permitting that movement in safety.
Seems like she knows the law better than you.
Europe has a higher density of freeways than the USA does, and more miles per capita.
The USA has more miles (by far) of highway than any other country. We need it, our transit system is basicaly nonexistent.
I know you said Europe, but if you want to compare CONTINENTS then you would have to add the mileage of all highways in Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Haiti, Cuba, and Dom. Republic to the US total as well. I doubt Europe has more highways than that, considering that most European countries are the size of US states. I get it that most of the US is sparsely populated, but still.
Your per capita comment is ridiculous, Europe has almost twice the population of the United States, how could Europe possibly have more miles of road per capita than The USA (let alone all if North America)?
Autobahn no state trooper dont worry man.....
True, but radar traps are there
Now EVs can go at high speed more effortlessly and quietly.
I have done lots of high speed driving (140mph+) in Nevada and Montana, no need to go to Germany. German Autobahn, not a big deal.
How would an EV hold up with all the sustained speed?
It won't
At, say, 120 MPH, 20 minutes at most..
Too many EV haters here. Bjorn Nyland tested the BMW i3 which did 160km at 225km/h the entire time and a KIA EV6, which did 126km whilst driving at 200km/h the entire time.
@@N1ckZ Downhill?
Last year we drove from the uk to Wurzburg then down to Fussen before looping through Switzerland, through France then back to uk in our Model 3lr. We did alot of autobahn driving, the left lane I found most driving was at around 120mph for short periods before traffic slowed things down. The car was doing around 3 miles per kwh at these speed.
2:20 Why is he measuring in metres when the two second rule (by his calculation 1.8 seconds) is a better metric.
because thats the rule
Not sure which is worse: Driving on the US or UK highways. Driving in Europe is far better!
IMHO this video doesn't explain anything useful. First and basic, even in no limit sectors, 90% drive between 130-140km/h on the rightest laned. The MOST IMPORTANT DO would be "always return to the right, because even if you drive above 160km/h (100mph), there can be someone at 200 (125)". Another big DO is move to a side in a traffic jam in order to create a free corridor for energency services. A VERY BIG DON'T is drive on the left if you are not overtaking. Another DON'T is flashing your beams to the car you want to overtake. The correct and polite thing is use your left blinker. Another DON'T is continue on a lane that will close, even if it's closed two miles ahead: if everybody has joined the open lane, YOU JOIN the open lane: DON'T TAKE ADVANTAGE of driving on the empty lane that will be closing. This is THE RUDEST thing you can do. And something I had hardly seen before driving in Germany: when you approach the incorporation to the autobahn, all the drivers on the first lane move to the second one to help you entering. Always renember that. When I first was IN the motorway it shocked me that everybody was recklessly entering like "not looking" at the traffic. The next day, when I was entering the motorway, I understood why.
I really hate how they tailgate in Germany motorways, it’s really irritating!
200 kmh is slow though
Beautiful woman
The US highways don't have many rules? What country is she from? Every part of the vehicle code in every state applies on US highways. And the US Highway Patrol? No such thing. I guess she's a typical journalist or TV personality.
Voting against speed limit in Germany is similar to voting against gun ownership in the USA. For people from outside it makes no sense.
And anybody who really is putting the pedal to the medal these days is either a rich person, due to the crazy gasoline prices or just ignorant or probably both. And normaly traffic is much higher then shown in the video, so that accelerating and breaking all the time is also so much more unecological and also uneconomical as a this just let the fuel bill rising even more. but a lot of us Germans leave their common sense outside their cars as soon as the start their engines.
you forgot to mention construction (Baustelle)....
Hopeful the USA, can be like Germany when it comes to speed limits.
Gas prices aren't that crazy though. If a gallon cost an hour of salary, that would be the point where change would happen. For now, driving fast saves more time than the cost of fuel.
km/h > mph
Amen.
As a German I am actually for a speed limit, but not for safety reasons, but rather because of the energy consumption of cars that increases faster than their velocity.
Yeah sure! Have you already switched off your heating at home? Because your energy consumption footprint there is even worse. Have you ever checked the stats of how many German car owners do full throttle driving? You would be surprised, it’s just a handful…
@@heindaddel2531 I am currently switching to solar and storing energy for e heat changer. So, yes, I am really efficient at home and I drive an EV.
@@FHB71 One day you’ll be awarded to have saved the planet, lucky you! 👏
@@heindaddel2531 Yes. We always think about the butterfly effect as something small in the past making a big difference in the present, but we do not think, that a small change now can make a big difference in the future.