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> …you can cut their speed say 33%… You probably can’t have cars going 70 or faster sharing the road with trucks going a steady 45.

by jmull 3y ago

alemanek 3y ago
In the US there are lots of long 3-4 lane highway stretches where this is perfectly fine. Also we already see this on mountain ascents. Plenty of times I have seen trucks climbing a pass at 30-45mph in the right lane and cars zipping up it at 80mph in the left lane.
alistairSH 3y ago
Isn’t dual speed limits (lower for trailers) fairly normal in Western Europe? Pretty sure that’s true in the UK for caravans/personal trailers, though I don’t recall if that lower limit applies to commercial trucks.
chefkoch 3y ago
In Germany you share the Autobahn with trucks going 90km/h and some cars going 200 km/h.
- perlgeek 3y ago
  ... and I hate it, it's so much stress (unless you're constantly on the right lane and driving 90km/h). When you cross from the Autobahn to Denmark, where there's a speed limit of at most 130km/h, traffic immediately becomes less stressful.
  - lotsoweiners 3y ago
    Sounds like you’re the problem.
    - Sayrus 3y ago
      I can understand where you're coming from but driving on a road where everyone has the same speed on average is less stressful than driving on a road with large differences in speed. The latter requires a good evaluation of the speed of the vehicles behind / in your mirror rather than just checking for whether a vehicle is there. On the former, you can simply match speed with the person in front and you're good to go. Due to this, ADAS is also broken on roads with high speed differences. It won't alert you of a vehicle is coming 100+ kmh than you in your blind spot.
- wongarsu 3y ago
  Germany is much more disciplined than the US about being in the right lane and only overtaking on the left. Most of the US has the same rules in theory, but people following the rules less strictly combined with the low speed limits means they don't get the clearly separated speeds for each lane you get on a German Autobahn.

> …you can cut their speed say 33%… You probably can’t have cars going 70 or faster sharing the road with trucks going a steady 45.

by jmull 3y ago

> …you can cut their speed say 33%… You probably can’t have cars going 70 or faster sharing the road with trucks going a steady 45.

alemanek 3y ago

In the US there are lots of long 3-4 lane highway stretches where this is perfectly fine. Also we already see this on mountain ascents. Plenty of times I have seen trucks climbing a pass at 30-45mph in the right lane and cars zipping up it at 80mph in the left lane.

alistairSH 3y ago

Isn’t dual speed limits (lower for trailers) fairly normal in Western Europe? Pretty sure that’s true in the UK for caravans/personal trailers, though I don’t recall if that lower limit applies to commercial trucks.

chefkoch 3y ago

In Germany you share the Autobahn with trucks going 90km/h and some cars going 200 km/h.

perlgeek 3y ago
... and I hate it, it's so much stress (unless you're constantly on the right lane and driving 90km/h). When you cross from the Autobahn to Denmark, where there's a speed limit of at most 130km/h, traffic immediately becomes less stressful.
- lotsoweiners 3y ago
  Sounds like you’re the problem.
  - Sayrus 3y ago
    I can understand where you're coming from but driving on a road where everyone has the same speed on average is less stressful than driving on a road with large differences in speed. The latter requires a good evaluation of the speed of the vehicles behind / in your mirror rather than just checking for whether a vehicle is there. On the former, you can simply match speed with the person in front and you're good to go. Due to this, ADAS is also broken on roads with high speed differences. It won't alert you of a vehicle is coming 100+ kmh than you in your blind spot.
wongarsu 3y ago
Germany is much more disciplined than the US about being in the right lane and only overtaking on the left. Most of the US has the same rules in theory, but people following the rules less strictly combined with the low speed limits means they don't get the clearly separated speeds for each lane you get on a German Autobahn.