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Mostly the latter, in my experience. Germany has dynamic signage on several highways, but if the sign says 80 (even with a secondary sign notifying of traffic j
by ygra 8y ago
Mostly the latter, in my experience. Germany has dynamic signage on several highways, but if the sign says 80 (even with a secondary sign notifying of traffic jams), most people will still drive 160 if it doesn't look congested yet.
- pandemic_region 8y agoThe ones still driving 160 are mostly foreign drivers in my experience. Most German drivers obey the speed limits. Note I'm not German but often drive through it.
- ygra 8y agoAdmittedly, the 160 was exaggerated. But as a German who does obey the speed limit, my experience seems to be that most drivers don't.
- choeger 8y agoBecause you never notice all the other cars that do. They travel as fast as you, so their distance remains constant. You only notice cars going slower or faster than you.
- atoav 8y agoAs somebody who was using the Autobahn quite a lot I’d say most people go between 120 and 160 when there is no speed limit. But it depend on the conditions
- dx034 8y agoFrom experience this is rare. 20kph above the limit is standard (and probably expected by the system setting speed limits), 80 over would cost your license for several months.
- ygra 8y agoAdmittedly, 160 was exaggerated. But on stretches where there's no speed limit and you suddenly get this 80 km/h along with Stau signs, people tend to still drive 120 if there's no visible congestion. Since those dynamic limits are not really enforced (most speed cameras tend to be in places where there's a fixed limit at all times) there's rarely a downside to drivers. Same as with driving 80 in construction sites instead of the 60 that's signed.
- cheschire 8y agoThis is starting to change now that the polizei have started leaving mobile panzerblitzers in place for several days at a time. I've noticed in the last few months significantly more respect for changes in speed limits from the folks with local license plates.
- matt4077 8y agoThat’s simply not true. Most people don’t even drive 160kph to begin with.
- Faaak 8y agoIn some parts of the highway is very plausible. Even 200km/hour and more
- matt4077 8y agoPeople seem to have some terrible difficulty of understanding the difference b/w “Most people don’t do <x>”, and “It’s theoretically possible to do <x>”.
- lovemenot 8y agoPeople seem to have some terrible difficulty ... All / most / some people? Or just the person you responded to?
- xiphias2 8y agoThere are multiple reason why the way people communicate is important, one of which is the limited logical reasoning capability of most people. Just look at politics / marketing / dark patterns / mortgage contracts. I successfully changed my sister's mind from variable rate mortgage to fixed mortgage, as the language of the contract doesn't explicitly write how bad the worst case option can be 10 years from now for variable rate mortgage.
- Moru 8y agoThat depends on what country you live in. Some areas in Germany, 200 km/h is no problem for hours straight.
- matt4077 8y agoI live in Germany. And what you’re saying is (a) wrong, and (b) not even incompatible what I said.