Hatunen wrote:
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> >There is an inherent safety problem with split speed limits, but that is
> >because of poor driving skills. They can work. there are no speed limits for
> >cars on most of the German autobahns system. Trucks are limited to 90 kph and
> >there is no passing allowed in the right. I drove from the north of Germany
> >all the way to the south and then back up half way and across to France, more
> >than 1200 miles, and never saw a single accident. I was travelling at about
> >165 kph all the way, sticking to the middle lane. I was being passed by cars
> >that were doing almost double that speed.
>
> I've not seen an accident on I-5 either, and I've driven it a
> number of times, not just once like you did on the Aautobahn. I'm
> not sure what the fact that we haven't seen accidents proves.
Actually, I have been on it more than once. I am not sure that it proves
anything, since it is possible that the 3 days that I was driving on the autobahn
on that first trip could possibly have been the first and only time it was
accident free. It's just that if I drive 100 miles on one of our highways I am
pretty well guaranteed to see some sort of an accident.
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