> Germany may be the home of an ever-powerful carmaking lobby and an autobahn which includes some sections free of speed limits I recently spent a week driving

> Germany may be the home of an ever-powerful carmaking lobby and an autobahn which includes some sections free of speed limits I recently spent a week driving around southern Germany. The freeways around Munich seemed to be in permanent Stau (jam) mode, even off peak on weekdays. Outside cities, on the notionally-unlimited stretches, I could rarely even drive at 130 (the advisory limit) because there was simply so much traffic.