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It's a PR stunt. Roads are almost empty due to lockdown, it's the police and everyone in front will move far away, it's a fast highway track. Numbers have cle

It's a PR stunt. Roads are almost empty due to lockdown, it's the police and everyone in front will move far away, it's a fast highway track. Numbers have clearly been cooked so that both Lamborghini and the Police get media exposure. If they wanted to do it fast they'd have done it at night and without cameras.

Arech 6y ago
Night is hardly a good moment for a highspeed race. Very poor visibility (extremely easy to outrun car's lights), but even if a race happens on a nicely lit highway, there's no protection from wild life that are more common in night time.
- tomcooks 6y ago
  At night every moving object on a high speed highway has lights that make them more visible, wild life is fenced off the road and there are just a few vehicles. Bonus points: no trucks at night.
  - emteycz 6y ago
    I see you never went 200+ km/h at night. The reality: It becomes impossible to recognize whether it's a car or a truck or a bike or nothing above 200. I regularly drive 260 on the autobahn like many people do, but evening is the slow-down moment for most of us. The risk of wildlife is extreme at these speeds, too, fencing does not exist and/or has holes. Trucks drive at night a lot, and you can't see the properly at night; at these speeds, trucks that are side by side can appear like one being behind the another - very scary experience when you realize the reality (usually only ~30 meters behind).
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  - lmilcin 6y ago
    At 220 there isn't much you can do if something shows up at the limit of your beams or if somebody decides to change lanes at a wrong moment. You are effectively giving away your life to the clueless people driving in front of you and also to the fact there is absolutely nothing obstructing the road.
intricatedetail 6y ago
What purpose does it serve? Is it to make people transporting harvested organs use Lambos?
Scoundreller 6y ago
> it's the police and everyone in front will move far away I’ve found in Europe (Germany, France, Croatia and Slovenia), drivers stay to the right unless passing. So the fast lanes will be fairly empty. Contract that with US/Canada where cars will merge from the on-ramp, switch 3 lanes to the left and camp in the fast lane at the speed limit. All without anything in front of them to warrant such action.
- denysvitali 6y ago
  Well, actually in Italy is the opposite. The leftmost lanes are almost always occupied by cars, the rightmost ones by trucks.
- zenexer 6y ago
  American driving is nothing compared to Italian driving. It’s a complete mess. The very first time I went to Italy, my cab driver got into an accident before we ever even left the airport. He was trying to do a crazy maneuver to avoid a fee and rear-ended another cab driver who was doing the same thing, but who apparently wasn’t doing it fast enough. They got out of their cars, yelled at each other for 15 seconds, then continued on their way. It was downhill from there.
disown 6y ago
That's my guess as well. A PR firm was hired and they came up with this idea. It's pretty much an ad for the police and lamborghini. The question is who paid for it. It's like the jump from the space a few years ago sponsored by redbull. Or the bazillion "dog reacts to returning soldier" videos you see all over social media.

Arech 6y ago

Night is hardly a good moment for a highspeed race. Very poor visibility (extremely easy to outrun car's lights), but even if a race happens on a nicely lit highway, there's no protection from wild life that are more common in night time.

tomcooks 6y ago
At night every moving object on a high speed highway has lights that make them more visible, wild life is fenced off the road and there are just a few vehicles. Bonus points: no trucks at night.
- emteycz 6y ago
  I see you never went 200+ km/h at night. The reality: It becomes impossible to recognize whether it's a car or a truck or a bike or nothing above 200. I regularly drive 260 on the autobahn like many people do, but evening is the slow-down moment for most of us. The risk of wildlife is extreme at these speeds, too, fencing does not exist and/or has holes. Trucks drive at night a lot, and you can't see the properly at night; at these speeds, trucks that are side by side can appear like one being behind the another - very scary experience when you realize the reality (usually only ~30 meters behind).
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- lmilcin 6y ago
  At 220 there isn't much you can do if something shows up at the limit of your beams or if somebody decides to change lanes at a wrong moment. You are effectively giving away your life to the clueless people driving in front of you and also to the fact there is absolutely nothing obstructing the road.

intricatedetail 6y ago

What purpose does it serve? Is it to make people transporting harvested organs use Lambos?

Scoundreller 6y ago

> it's the police and everyone in front will move far away I’ve found in Europe (Germany, France, Croatia and Slovenia), drivers stay to the right unless passing. So the fast lanes will be fairly empty. Contract that with US/Canada where cars will merge from the on-ramp, switch 3 lanes to the left and camp in the fast lane at the speed limit. All without anything in front of them to warrant such action.

denysvitali 6y ago
Well, actually in Italy is the opposite. The leftmost lanes are almost always occupied by cars, the rightmost ones by trucks.
zenexer 6y ago
American driving is nothing compared to Italian driving. It’s a complete mess. The very first time I went to Italy, my cab driver got into an accident before we ever even left the airport. He was trying to do a crazy maneuver to avoid a fee and rear-ended another cab driver who was doing the same thing, but who apparently wasn’t doing it fast enough. They got out of their cars, yelled at each other for 15 seconds, then continued on their way. It was downhill from there.

disown 6y ago

That's my guess as well. A PR firm was hired and they came up with this idea. It's pretty much an ad for the police and lamborghini. The question is who paid for it. It's like the jump from the space a few years ago sponsored by redbull. Or the bazillion "dog reacts to returning soldier" videos you see all over social media.