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If your friend perhaps a German?
(I heard they have no speed limits 👀)
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Submitted 2 days ago by intellectualcuriosity@reddthat.com to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
MemmingenFan923@feddit.org 2 days ago
(I heard they have no speed limits 👀)
This is half true. Some highway segments have speed limits like everywher else and some don’t have speed limits.
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
And that system is AWESOME and I wish some highways in the US did the same. I fear it would devolve into a regulations nightmare after bubba in his rusted dodge rattles to peices trying to break 80mph.
Flat open highway in between cities in Kansas? Go for it!
But it’s kind of like the US and guns. It’s a cultural ability that is statistically proven to be dangerous and can be seen as too big of a risk for ordinary people to enjoy, and reckless people put the whole acrivity in question.
morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
The fastest I drove was 262 km/h on the German highway (which has sections without a speed limit). At this speed, you have to watch as far as you can, because a car on the left lane overtaking other lanes will usually be at most 180 km/h there, so you have to be prepared to slow down a very long time in advance.
300 km/h is just dangerous, you have to be fully concentrated to adapt to the other drivers and it leaves a very thin margin to react (if any), should something happen. You definitely put your life and the one from others around you one the line doing that.
My experience wasn’t particularly pleasant, but it was nice to feel once how the car behaves at its maximum rated speed. I haven’t done it again. But I’ll regularly drive above 160 km/h to just go with the flow.
Takapapatapaka@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well it depends. Technically speaking, it’s around twice as fast as standard speed on highway (at least in France, so 130kmh). In terms of feelings, it’s probably not that faster? I never went above 140 or so but from my experience, your brain adapts to the speed, so if you got to 300 not that suddenly it probably does not feel like twice as fast than the usual. In terms of safety, it may be more than twice the danger. I’m no expert, but depending on the vehicle and how many other vehicles there are on the highway, it could be very dangerous.
nesc@lemmy.cafe 2 days ago
Almost two times faster that is safish to drive.
foggy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You can use Fibonacci to approx km/mi
300 km is like 200 mi.
(More like 180)
But still, approx works. 300 kmh is like 200 mph. Closer to 180 mph.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I rode a train going 300km/h, and it felt amazingly slow, compared to going 180km/h on the Autobahn in a car.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Depends on how close you are to the objects around you as you pass them
spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 days ago
About twice as fast as my car is capable of going, downhill and with a tailwind.
ColdWater@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
You die 3x faster than 100km/h if you crash
Gobbel2000@programming.dev 1 day ago
Maybe 3x faster, but because Energy = mass × speed SQUARED, you die 9x harder.
whaleross@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You also risk killing x3 more innocent bystanders.
Don’t play with motor vehicles on public roads or whatever happens is not an accident.
DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 2 days ago
I doubt typical commercials available cars can do that speed, maybe some super expensive stuff? I’ve never be driven a car which could top over 180.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 days ago
Krudler@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I really don’t know what you’re looking for here. I mean what do you want us to say It’s a speed??
I guess if I can add something meaningful, it’s so fast that no human can ever respond to an unexpected situation or hazard in time and you’re dead. Don’t ever go that speed for any reason.