Is this a way of getting to see what your car can do, or a saving time thing or some other reason

Because german cars handle properly at high speeds.

novum wrote:

Great video

It's for idiots to show off their fast cars legally....

Well, I think it really is to keep the traffic swift, it works rather well from what I've heard, Germany has the best highway network I know of.

I'd love roads with speed limits like that.

Do they have grid lock traffic like the major US or UK cities?

That vid was a bit daft tbh.
The car was beginning to drift and buffet unacceptably over 160mph and tbh most people would struggle to react with any decent leeway above about 150mph.
There was simply no reaction time there if a deer jumped out...or worse still a kid as you would be concentrating like hell on a long way off, once you scan that distance and see its ok and steer for it then you ignore it and continue to scan further off.

On the other hand I can agree there are places where speed limits are infuriatingly stupid, 30 mph zones that extend way way outside towns and villages that could be cut short much further back, and tbh most decent drivers in the UK are capable of handling around 90mph in the dry in a GOOD car. I would say 90 dry , 70 wet would be preferable for the motorways, combine that with moving back the speed limit signs and weird 40mph zones for no obvious reason in the countryside.

Whats needed for progression is more space for overtaking, ie extra lane adding to single lane A roads that go long distances rather than upping the speed limits that much tbh. The autobahn is just nuts, it'll attract nuts for sure lol.

I'd like to see some flexibility in speed limit ranges and zones because some stretches need ppl to slow even more, to say 20mph or even less and other stretches in 30 zones are quite safe for up to 50mph and you commonly see ppl doing that speed in certain sections for precisely that reason.

It'd take some common sense with experienced drivers consulted and a lot of time and effort to sort the signs.
Not to mention converting a pile of A-roads to dual carriageway

All this crap is due in no small part to the destruction of the railways. Were they running to as many places as they used to and frequently then ppl would drive less anyway. Same goes for buses. Public transports basically sucks and its f***** expensive so no wonder ppl prefer to drive.

There are some countries that have some fairly decent public transport but its still a long way off ideal, except in core cities ofc.
London underground is actually pretty good.

All that said, if you wanna do 300kmh I suggest paying to take your car into a race track or getting a job as a UK bobby...LOL!

Rick wrote:
And a great car at high speed.

Put up a vid like that in australia and the police would be round your place the next day to take your car.

Actually there was no speed limit in Australias Northern Territory until recently, and they may return it to no speed limit again...

performancedrive.com.au/open-speed-limit...-northern-territory/

andyh wrote:
I doubt a kid would be walking onto an autobahn though.

Yes animals are always a worry though...

Ive done 270k before i ran out of road, thats my personal best.

novum wrote:
At that speed a kid/animal wouldn't even know you were coming until they stepped out and about half a second later their brain registers the last thing which would be this beginning of a whooshing noise and draft of air before split in half through and off the windscreen and about a mile down the road and the other half in gravel torn pieces about a mile behind the car after passing underneath it.

Yeah i know, lifes a risk i guess.

Ive had some close calls with kangaroos at night, and they arent small!

ofc would be grossly irresponsible to drive like that or anywhere near it for that matter where there would be people, i never have. And when there is nothing on the sides of the road, no trees and just open space, and its daytime, animals *usually* arent a problem here... and there are plenty of roads like that in oz especially the stuart highway.

It would be impossible to not have a speed limit on a major highway in the USA and not expect constant mayhem.

Germany also has the bonkers racetrack where dozens of people have been killed:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_N%C3%BCrburgring_fatal_accidents

So maybe that just like to keep things lively.

Rick wrote:
ive read that the highest in the USA is on a texas tollroad, 137kph or 85mph.

i think it might be one of those bush family/macquarie bank/cintra roads.

ive also read the highest ticket ever handed out in the world was in the usa, high 300's to a bugatti veyron i think it was, read it a few years ago.

EDIT: was a Koenigsigg apparently, not bugatti....

www.m5board.com/vbulletin/koenigsegg-for...america-242-mph.html

novum wrote:
It's not the Dallas north tollway there's not enough traffic free road at any particular time to do 85 for a long stretch, maybe in spurts, plus you have people that are looking around on the darn road trying to see where they need to get off at to go to a particular place and driving slow.

wake_up_bomb wrote:
That's very rough

I looked up the road...

www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/...xas-highway/1654115/

novum wrote:

Many roaming deer around roads and crossing them down around San Antonio and especially west and south heading toward Laredo

From what I can gather, there's no speed limit on the autobahn, but if you have an accident and it's your fault, they fuck you like a bitch.

Ive heard some say they heard stories the old route 66 going by way of the desert to Vegas was a wild and fast road

Not so much now