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> Traveling by car in Italy is now expensive for residents, and the alternative roads are slow and dangerous. This is quite the generalisation. Slow? Yes for o
by manuelmoreale 2y ago
> Traveling by car in Italy is now expensive for residents, and the alternative roads are slow and dangerous.
This is quite the generalisation. Slow? Yes for obvious reasons. The speed limit is a lot lower compared to highways. Dangerous? That's silly. Not sure why driving 70kmh on a country road is more dangerous than going 130kmh on a highway.
It all depends where you're going. Some roads are plain bad, others are excellent.
- rozenmd 2y ago> Not sure why driving 70kmh on a country road is more dangerous than going 130kmh on a highway. If you hit the edge of the highway, you'll likely bounce off the barrier and survive. If you go over the edge of a national road at 70kmh you'll likely end up in a ditch/roll the car, dangerous at any speed.
- manuelmoreale 2y agoIf you hit the edge of the highway at 130kmh you'll likely bounce back onto incoming traffic that's also going 130kmh. Highways are less dangerous in general simply because of the way you drive on them because there are no crossroads or roundabouts or stop lights and the traffic is a lot more predictable. But I'd not call other roads "dangerous".
- Gare 2y agoMotorways have safety barriers between opposing traffic. They're quite good at stopping cars. Trucks, not so much unless they're concrete, or newer steel barriers of higher class.
- manuelmoreale 2y agoYes but motorways are always multilane so there is traffic going in the same direction. And if I'm hitting a barrier at 130km with 3 other lanes of cars going at 130kmh in the same direction chances are someone's going to hit me.
- soco 2y agoEurope doesn't have many places with 4 lanes (I'd say only at junctions for 1km or such) and I hope it never gets either.
- manuelmoreale 2y ago3 + emergency aren’t that uncommon here in northern Italy.
- haspok 2y agoSpeed limit is 90kmh on most European roads. But that's not the important factor. On the motorway you just turn on cruise control, set it to 120/130kmh, and the car essentially drives itself. There are no crossings, curves are gentle, and everyone is driving more or less at the same speed. On the roads you do have to watch out for a lot of things, there might be traffic lights, roundabouts, zebra crossings, the speed limit constantly changes from when you cross a town or crossroads, slow vehicles like tractors or even cyclists... So you have to pay constant attention for longer, it is tiring and a tired driver means the chances for an accident are higher.
- manuelmoreale 2y ago> So you have to pay constant attention for longer, it is tiring and a tired driver means the chances for an accident are higher. Don't disagree with that but do disagree with your line of reasoning. Driving the same speed, for hours, on cruise, makes zoning out way more easy. And at 130kmh+ things happen way faster and so you have to be extra engaged to void potentially deadly crashes. As I said in another comment, they're less dangerous because of the way the traffic works but if you look at the numbers, the fatalities to crashes ratio isn't all that different between highways and country roads. Volume is obviously different, but there's also fewer people driving on highways than regular roads. Still, I'd not say that driving on highways is safe while driving on country roads is dangerous. They're both dangerous, just for different reasons.