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That’s simply not true. Most people don’t even drive 160kph to begin with.

by matt4077 8y ago

Faaak 8y ago
In some parts of the highway is very plausible. Even 200km/hour and more
- matt4077 8y ago
  People 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 ago
    People seem to have some terrible difficulty ... All / most / some people? Or just the person you responded to?
    - xiphias2 8y ago
      There 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 ago
That depends on what country you live in. Some areas in Germany, 200 km/h is no problem for hours straight.
- matt4077 8y ago
  I live in Germany. And what you’re saying is (a) wrong, and (b) not even incompatible what I said.
- roel_v 8y ago
  "Some areas in Germany, 200 km/h is no problem for hours straight." Please tell me of one road/route in Germany where you can drive '200 km/h for hours straight". I'll settle for tiny values of 'hours', as long as they're >= 1.
  - Moru 7y ago
    This ofcourse depends on time of day. An early morning somewhere around 2 am - 5 em we were driving from Sweden down to south-west germany, somewhere after Hamburg. We have a small car, top speed is about 200 km/h in downhill, wind in the back. I had the gas pedal to the bottom for several hours, most of the time it was four lanes and the only thing you saw was a truck every few kilometers. This was a few years ago so not certain if this has changed. Last time we drove down we ended up on the wrong highway and stuck behind a heavy transport for the same ammount of hours doing 70 km/h tops, when we weren't standing still. Friends told me the heavy transports blocking the whole roads have gotten a lot worse in the nights, the last years.
isostatic 8y ago
In unrestricted areas, this link says the average speed of cars is in the 140-150kph range, and about 20% of all vehicles above 160kph, so while you're right, it's not as extreme a difference as one may infer from your tone. https://mil.brandenburg.de/cms/media.php/lbm1.a.2239.de/studie_tempolimit.pdf https://mil.brandenburg.de/cms/media.php/lbm1.a.2239.de/stud...

That’s simply not true. Most people don’t even drive 160kph to begin with.

Faaak 8y ago

In some parts of the highway is very plausible. Even 200km/hour and more

matt4077 8y ago
People 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 ago
  People seem to have some terrible difficulty ... All / most / some people? Or just the person you responded to?
  - xiphias2 8y ago
    There 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 ago

That depends on what country you live in. Some areas in Germany, 200 km/h is no problem for hours straight.

matt4077 8y ago
I live in Germany. And what you’re saying is (a) wrong, and (b) not even incompatible what I said.
roel_v 8y ago
"Some areas in Germany, 200 km/h is no problem for hours straight." Please tell me of one road/route in Germany where you can drive '200 km/h for hours straight". I'll settle for tiny values of 'hours', as long as they're >= 1.
- Moru 7y ago
  This ofcourse depends on time of day. An early morning somewhere around 2 am - 5 em we were driving from Sweden down to south-west germany, somewhere after Hamburg. We have a small car, top speed is about 200 km/h in downhill, wind in the back. I had the gas pedal to the bottom for several hours, most of the time it was four lanes and the only thing you saw was a truck every few kilometers. This was a few years ago so not certain if this has changed. Last time we drove down we ended up on the wrong highway and stuck behind a heavy transport for the same ammount of hours doing 70 km/h tops, when we weren't standing still. Friends told me the heavy transports blocking the whole roads have gotten a lot worse in the nights, the last years.

isostatic 8y ago

In unrestricted areas, this link says the average speed of cars is in the 140-150kph range, and about 20% of all vehicles above 160kph, so while you're right, it's not as extreme a difference as one may infer from your tone. https://mil.brandenburg.de/cms/media.php/lbm1.a.2239.de/studie_tempolimit.pdf https://mil.brandenburg.de/cms/media.php/lbm1.a.2239.de/stud...