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Amusing - How Americans consider driving at 90 mph as fast! In the UK that's average on the motorway - when traffic is not too heavy. I used to regularly travel
by garyclarke27 5y ago
Amusing - How Americans consider driving at 90 mph as fast!
In the UK that's average on the motorway - when traffic is not too heavy.
I used to regularly travel at 120-130 for many years and have experienced 160 mph (won't say who was driving)
In Germany speeds are even higher.
- ubermonkey 5y agoThat's odd. I drove from Manchester into the Lake District, and across to Northumberland, and didn't find the speed limits or active speeds especially higher than interstates in the US (observed speeds 75ish).
- olyjohn 5y agoYou regularly see news reports on TV with headlines saying how the driver was "Exceeding 100mph!" OMG 100MPH! Any shitbox car made in the last 30 years can do 100mph.
- interknot 5y agoAmusing - The statistics from your Department for Transport seem to suggest that you are either an extreme outlier or just entirely wrong[1]! Or maybe this can be attributed to you having some lingering difficulties with kph vs mph? Hopefully we've both satisfied the urge to be obnoxiously condescending for no reason. Moving right along... Assuming SPE0111 is what I should be looking at, UK motorway speeds seem very similar to what I've experienced on US interstates. ------------ 1. SPE0111 and the "Average free flow speed (mph)" for motorways, from the following: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/vehicle-speed-compliance-statistics-data-tables-spe https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/vehicle-...