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[MG]

I go to Germany annually and although it pains me to say it, "some sort of
speed limit might just be necessary." On my last trip, some German yuppy in
a BMW Convertible passed us going well over 100mph (he was doing over 100
and I was at about 70mph). About 10 miles from Wurzburg, we saw the
car----in a tree. It had been airborne after hitting the rear end of a
ubiquitous tour bus and landed in the tree. He was hurt but not dead.
Seems he was on his cell phone (illegal but done as often as in the States).

The autobahn is now a series of detours, road construction and it often
narrows from 4 lanes to one in construction zones with little if any
warning. That spells disaster for someone driving over the capabilities of
the road, the other drivers and him/herself. There are a few places on the
less traveled autobahns---say from Bremen to Jever but the rest of Germany,
including what used to be East Germany just is not safe for everyone if
someone decides to go flat out when it is full of cars. Couple that with
trucks which pull out to pass slower trucks and cars going 40mph alongside
those wanting to do 140 miles per hour and the recipe for disaster is there.
I recall on many occasions waiting for what seemed hours for an accident
scene to be cleared since it seemed to this American eye that the Polizei
often closed the road to do a thorough investigation. I am of the opinion
that congestion and the right to drive as fast as you want are conflicting
factors and I would rather get where I am going alive than in a box.

Mel
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[The Dead Senator]

MG wrote:

[Ethan H]

Why fuck with artistic engineering, Porsche owners are after a whole
different experience than an understeering, over horsepowered, mass
produced.............


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[Vern]

Oh my, what 30 years will do. It was crowded near the major cities while I
was in the service, but I drove every day and it was not uncommon to find
long stretches of hardly any cars.

In fact I drove the autobahn to Berlin once and didn't see a single vehicle
for 1/2 an hour. But that was restricted road at the time too.

But you have to remember that was also during the fuel crisis. In fact I was
in Germany for the three weekend driving bans. Now if you want think of an
experience, One weekend we played football on the autobahn just inside
Manheim's city limits near our barracks for two hours one afternoon. Talk
about WEIRD.

So with fuel prices being what they were, travel unless you could afford it
just wasn't done. Leaving the autobahn mostly to semis, and the Porsches,
Mercedes, and Ferraris.

As for accidents, I will post a story about that, one of my next posts. It
still makes me cringe after 30 years.

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