There's no speed limit on German autobahns ...

That has been filmed downhill on the Autobahn A8 Ulm - Stuttgart

must have been my b-i-l driving ....
whenever we visited in germany b-i-l would drive us around in his benz . he likes driving fast , so when he'd come to about 150km/h , mrs h would mention "casually" that she was about ready to throw up ... SLOWING DOWN > GRIN !
hbg

One rock and that guy is toast.

I think hamburger, or Sloppy Joe, might be closer to it.

But they probably shot this just after the Kehrwoch for the Autobahn, when there couldn't possibly have been a pebble on it.

We're warned not to try this at home.

Our bedroom is pretty large -- the entire top floor -- but I don't think it's quite roomy enough to give it a shot. I appreciate the warning, though.

a rock on the autobahn ? you gotta be kidding !
hbg



only 130 km ? SHAMEFUL ! <GRIN>

That's weird. I'm used to seeing those arrows going from Germany into the Sudetenland, not the other way around.

It is untrue, by the way, that there is no speed limit on the Autobahn. The limit is 670,616,629.4 miles per hour, and those who would exceed it do so at their peril.

joe wrote :



you mean "geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung" don't you ? > GRIN
(don't even know if i spelled it correctly) .
apperently there is no MAXIMUM speed limit but a RICHTGESCHWINDIGKEIT (suggested speed ) of 130 km .



when walter get's up in the morning he can bring us up-to-date .
hbg

The sign, hamburger posed above, shows the 'Richtgeschwindigkeit' for autobahns (and other speed limits) = 'recommended speed'.

On the autobahns, you've very often speedlimits, mostly

When my uncle in Saarbrucken drove me to Duisburg on the autobahn, he told me those signs only referred to "recommended" speed limits.

Walter, is it still true that in Germany the #1 cause of death for those under age 35 is autobahn accident?

I don't really know, jw, if that was ever true.

The main reason for car accident deaths with younger drivers (below 27) is ... inexperience and alcohol, happens mostly on Saturday nights.

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Police tries to found out more about the skateboarder and the accompaning vehicles: there's a press conference announced for later today. (It's a speed limit of 80km/h there .... and they did 100 and more )

My memory of driving through Germany (over a decade ago) was that the sppeds only got really high on the Autobahn well away from populated areas. And it was always orderly. Granted, only travelled long distances during the day and did so during August, when many Germans are away on holiday... But the safety of self-organization balanced out the added danger of high speed. By comparison, the kids I see driving their tuners at 100mph/160km/h outside Chicago and Milwaukee here, where the notion of a "fast lane" seems not to exist and where nobody is paying much attention to anyone else are an absolute menace.

Had similar experiences driving in Spain and Italy: because of the way people drive, driving really damn fast just seemed safer there than it does in most of the US.

The impression I had the last time I was there was that most autobahn traffic moved at around 80 - 85 mph.

I think driving on the autobahn is very often very stressful. You have to watch everyone around you. The slow guy in the right lane who suddenly decides he wants to pass the even slower guy ahead and you are on the left lane going 180 km/h... The fast guy in the Mercedes or Porsche who comes up behind you and is going 220 km/h. Where did he suddenly come from? And there is so much traffic...

Hmm. Well, I learned to drive in an old pickup on Los Angeles freeways, so being in a trim sedan on the autobahn seems pleasant and orderly by comparison...

I wonder if this video is no longer available because of this:

Police hunt high-speed skateboard outlaw

No, not at all (police investigations started already last week).

It's still online, three times by now, only with different URLs

I'm amused that 62 in a 50 is considered "far above the speed limit."