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> You’ve never seen someone weaving in and out of traffic, cutting across 3 lanes at a time, and nearly clipping cars each time the change lanes? Indeed, least
by Aachen 5y ago
> You’ve never seen someone weaving in and out of traffic, cutting across 3 lanes at a time, and nearly clipping cars each time the change lanes?
Indeed, least in real life. I've seen some dashcam videos from the USA on youtube though, idk if the sample size is just that much larger but I'm amazed at how prevalent that seems compared to German dashcam videos.
> Or you’ve never seen someone driving 30 miles an hour faster than the people in the lane next to them?
Hmm so like 50km/h if I'm not mistaken. Sure I've seen it, this is the land of unlimited speed highways after all, and on dashcams it's hilarious: someone (surprise!) didn't see them coming off in the distance, pulls out to overtake a truck, and the 200km/h guy has to break dangerously and swears like an old sailor. Gee didn't see that coming....again. So that's rather stupid indeed. Also completely normal and accepted in Germany unfortunately. Probably not legal in a "dangerous driving" sense, but perfectly legal for a speed limit camera.
> The problem is small minority who choose to go 30 over.
I know some of this "small minority". The only thing that gives them pause is the risk of losing their license or when they perceive danger to those around them (like in small streets in a town center). A speed sign would have to be posted at limits well below what you want them to drive, or the punishment for small (say 10-20 km/h) infractions would have to be draconian for repeat offenders. I'm not seeing that in any country near me so I'm not sure how realistic that is (but I'm no walking encyclopedia so maybe this exists, would be interesting to see if it works to punish only/mostly the intended group).