YOU DRIVE THAT FAST!! Indians Reacts to THE GERMAN AUTOBAHN | No speed limit!?
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9:27 to be fair, the 20,000 people a year number is from one of the last years of not being legally required to always put on the safety belt before turning the ignition key… nowadays, with additional safety mechanisms, the numbers are significantly lower.
Most of the cars back then didn't even have seatbelts
Significantly lower! 314 died in 2022 on the Autobahn. 1 593 on country roads (Landstrassen). Autobahnen are very safe.
www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2023/07/PD23_272_46241.html
first rule to drive save: expect the other drivers to make mistakes
in return you wont crash even if u make a mistake , since the others are expecting that too.
Second rule: There is always someone faster than you, so don't hog the fast lane.
Nowadays we have arount 3000 people killed by trafic. In the City of Berlin we had 460 victims in the 70ties, and now less than 40 a year. The "Autobahn" was never a problem in this case.
Safetybelt is mandatory. That changed a lot. Car engineering did a lot to improve it. Airbag e.g..
Also the death were not so much on the Autobahn but on roads outside the cities and villages with bends and crossings. These are the dangerous streets and there is a general speed limit of 100 km/h. Nevertheless it's there where the deadly accidents happen.
WWW says India had 170,000 traffic deaths in 2022. Germany had about 2,800 in the same year. Citizen count: IN: 1,417 million, GE: 83.8 million
So India has about 17 time more people ... but 60 times more people killed in car accidents.
I like to drive fast (200+kph), but not for several hours in one stretch, only when traffic allows, keeping very relaxed distance, letting others make mistakes (I know I make some, too). No cell phone, just focussing on traffic. I feel safe and my wife and kids, too.
Many of my passengers fall asleep because there is no hectic atmosphere, no quick steering wheel movements, no hard braking (due to distance).
Found following for 2018
71 % of the deaths on motorways in Germany occurred on stretches without a speed limit. The share of stretches without a speed limit was 70%.
International comparisons are not easy.
Deaths per 1000 km motorway? Favors thinly settled countries with a good motorway network.
Deaths on motor ways per 100.000 inhabitants? If one has no motorways at all ...
An important factor is the amount of traffic. Which is in Germany not only highb because it is densily settled. But is also on the crossroads of Europe. When driving north-south or east-wast it is nearly impossible to bypass Germany. And this traffic is in first place freight traffic, i.e. lorries. While other causes for deadly accidents like too high speed or DUI have decreased in the past years, deadly accidents with lorries are over proportional (alone due to the mass of those vehicles) and increasing.
Also, the other roads in Germany are relatively more dangerous, despite the general speed limit there, because you are also less protected from the risks. But Germans drive less on them and travel most distance of the Autobahn, which makes comparing the roads to other countries again harder. 100 km/h on a Bundesstraße is still much faster than you would drive on a similar two lane US road (and these are also not as narrow as our roads)
there are a missing information about the 130 kph limitation:
Yes, it ist "just" a recommendation, BUT if there is an accident while beeing faster you (more or less) loose your insurance cover.
I love the Autobahn and to be able to go all out. If you have to travel through the whole country you can be there easily 1-2 hours before the navigation system's first prediction, but then it's really work and not relaxing at all. Keep in mind that driving fast in a responsible way needs all your attention at any second. For me a good travelling speed is about 180 km/h. This way you're not that exhausted, but also quick on time. But when I just want to relax and enjoy my car I prefer driving curvy roads in the near mountains with good music and the roof open, which is way more fun and just satisfying my soul.
driving license in europe is tough and costy, u dont want to lose it, germans follow the rules and on the autobahn it s a necessity, italy is let's say more freestyle,french are in-between....but compared to india, italians would be hardcore rules followers.. in my country, the driving license is 40h driving learning ( + the theory test to get first) and at best u can get it for 1000€, if u r not very skilled....it can go up to 3000€, for 2 years , you are in a probatory state as a young driver - we have points system for infraction-6 for beginners-12 for the rest- each infraction cost points and money, no more points no more driving license ( burning a red light : 3 points +money, phone in the hand -3points+ money, over speeding 1-3 points+ money)
A young colleague of mine has his driving test next week. I asked him what he has paid so far: 4000€😢
Well, sir.I seen you on another channel that you did.And so good luck on this one and thank you very much for your tonight's city in crime and doing more youtube and keep up the good work
Even though you can drive on the Autobahn without a speed limit, German Autobahns have some of the fewest accidents compared to other Autobahns in the world. Because a well-trained driver is also a better driver, for example compared to American drivers.
The fact is that the accident and fatality rate in Germany is not considerably different than in countries with speed limits on highways. And the fact is that wars are substantially worse for the environment (and more) than the car traffic on the parts of the German Autobahn, which has no speed limit yet. There are much more important and urgent issues to be addressed in Germany and the world.
During the 61 years I lived in Germany, I didn't experience what the speaker says about Germans and their autobahn and speed in the beginning.
I am used to drive fast on the autobahn from time to time, up to 220 km/h depending on the conditions. My guess: I go faster than 130 km/h during 10% of my time on the autobahn. And most Germans are driving slower than me. I think the speed tourists, who travel to Germany for a fast ride in a fast car on the autobahn are a good portion of the fast drivers.
If you make your driving license (Führerschein) in germany, you are taught, how to drive on the Autobahn. And the training for the driving license takes at least a few months, but probably 1 year or more. You also have to succeed at a theoretical AND a practical test a few weeks after you completed the theory. And even then, it's not a guarantee, that you get your license, because you have to remember most of the traffic rules.
You will sit in the same car, that you have trained in. But everything, that gives hints, that you drive a driving school car, are gone. No more additional mirrors or signs from your driving school, so that everyone on the road takes you as equal, if you are ready or not. Of course, your drinving teacher and the examiner can still reveal you as driving school, because it's not normal, to have three people in your car^^
After you failed three times in the practical test, you still can take driving lessons, but have 3 months forbid on trying it again. Some make it in ther first attempt, some need three and i had to make the practical test 6 times, because i had to change the driving school because of a very bad teacher.
And a distant acquaintance of mine accomplished something, that was nearly impossible with my second driving teacher: My teacher told him, that he (the teacher) doesn't think, that the guy had what it takes to be a responsible road traffic participant. One rule for example: If you don't have any signs on the street and you are driving onto a crossroad, the car, that comes from your right side has the right of the way. If you don't slow down or stop, if another car is coming, you automaticly fail in the test. In one test, he approached such a crossroad. But instead of being aware of the traffic, he looked into some windows and said "Wow, they have great curtains." My driving teacher had to interveine, make an emergency brake and his test was over.
I heard, that he tried his luck on half a dozen other driving schools, before he finaly got his driving license
You will drive 200km/h in a lot of driver school 😅
We have 2,500-3,000 traffic deaths every year (And only about 10-15% of them on Autobahn) - that's actually a good average with 69 Millions of registered cars
As a German, I need to add that getting your driver's licence in Germany is much harder and much more expensive than in any other country. Btw, Autobahn driving is included in the training. Also, German car manufacturers build their cars with the Autobahn in mind, which means that they'll do test drives either on the Autobahn itself or on their own test race tracks in order to make their cars safe for higher speeds.
A big plus of German culture at this point is our commitment to sticking to the rules, like the "Rechtsfahrgebot" (always drive as far right as possible, only overtake on the left). Of course there are always exceptions a.k.a. bad drivers, even in Germany. I see them on the road every day and think to myself "Did they win their licence in the lottery or what?"
All those factors plus the pristine condition of the roads, especially the Autobahn, makes the yearly deaths per 100.000 inhabitants go down significantly. And you have to keep in mind that Germany is the most densely populated country in Europe.
Actually, while a hugh part of the Autobahn have no legally defined speedlimit, there is always the general clause in the trafic rules: You always have to keep a speed you can control your car.
So yes, if you drive a Porsche, on Sunday at 7 am (as all shops are closed on Sunday in Germany, no trucks without special permission allowed, this is about the most low traffic you can have), in the north of germany (quite flat, so you can see very far in front of you), you might drive more than 250 km/h.
However, a street has a "construction speed". Depending on the construction speed, the minimum radius of curves is defined, but also the visibility ("hills" and valleys of the road, and how much left and right of the road is kept free). You have always to be able to stop whithin visible range.
"no speed limit" actually does not mean "no limit". It´s just your own responsibility to find the correct limit yourself, depending on the car, the traffic situation, the weather and even the surface of the road. And if you misscalculate and get into an accident while going faster than you should in the actual situation, you are nearly always partly guilty (above 130km/h) even if you did not primarily caused the accident.
But why (exept for enviromental reasons) shouldn´t you be allowed to drive faster than 130 or even 180 km/h on an Autobahn constructed for 80.000 cars per day at a time you only see maybe 100 cars in an hour?
Due to labor laws and restriction of shop opening times we have quite extreme peak traffic esp. near major citys. I do not need my car to go to work. So I always try to drive outside of peak hours. Start at 4 o clock in the morning on a holyday. Everything was free. I personally barly drive faster than 140 km/h (which is the recommended limit for winter tyres - I do less than 1000km/month, so changing tyres for summer does not realy make sense for me), but a few cars on the Autobahn drove about 180 km/h. Which is no problem with maybe 10 cars in sight over km´s with 3 lanes per direction and no trucks.
Guess what I do every sunday morning 🤣🤣🤣 You nailed it!
Speed isn't dangerous, the difference of speed between vehicles that interact is but as long as that interaction is handled by following rules it is very safe.
One imagines two cars hitting each other while going 200 dying on spot but in reality if both go similar speed and can handle the car both escape with scratched paint
or slight dents in their car even if colliding at that speed. When a car going 100 collides with one going 200 that is another story but by following the rules such thing should not
and fortunately doesn't really happen here be it germany or most of europe.
You can drive your own car sometimes on the race-track of Nürburgring
... but you are officially not allowed to "race" on the "Nürburgring" (race-track) while "Touristenfahrten" (driving on the track for tourists).
And as far as I know you do not have insurance cover on it.
0:20 India had around 169.000 in 2022 ^^
I am absolutely against a general speed limit, but I am apparently in a minority now. The problem is that people who live in big cities and even people who don't own a car or even have a license get to vote as well.
I've been driving for 20 years and had 3 accidents in that time. As per usual, all of them withing my first 5 years, when I thought I was a great driver, but really wasn't. None of them were on the Autobahn. Once I ignored left before right, near to my parents house, because I drove that crossing multiple times a day and nobody ever came from the right... Well, apparently they do sometimes. One was during a snow storm, when I just slid in slow motion into the car in front, despite being fully on the brakes. One was, when someone in a car park just started to reverse and went straight into me.
From my experience on the Autobahn, what I could go with, is 130 recommended (as it is currently) and a 150 kph hard limit between 7 am and 19 pm. No Limit outside of those hours. Because really, the times where you are able to go very fast is usually at night. Too much traffic otherwise and too many inexperienced drivers, people who are not used to it (tourists, Germans only used to city driving etc.) and too many truck drivers, who do not give a toss about causing close calls and traffic jams, as long as they can maintain their 3 kph speed advantage over the truck they are overtaking.
Speed doesn't kill. It's suddenly becoming stationary that gets you! -Jeremy Clarkson
We like driving fast. The Autobahn is built for extremely high speeds and most German cars are built to handle speeds way over 200 kp/h. Or 300 kp/h. Or in race cases even over 400 kp/h (there's a YT video of a guy who took his Bugatti Chiron to the Autobahn reaching a top speed of something like 412 kp/h. And it's legal.
The original video is a bit rubbish though, some scenes are not shot in Germany, especially the accident ones. Overall the Autobahn is a very safe mode of transport. But with Germany being smack bang in the middle of Europe we have lots and lots of transit traffic. Also we have lengthy (and quite expensive) training in order to get a driving license.
well the autobahn between my hometown and bonn was more like a test site.
u cant compare it to the highway net crossing the entire country , so hitler build the autobahn is correct but he didnt build it in germany alone 🙂
"before there were seatbelts more people died" ; the argumentation is realy that intelligence level of a british person xD
8:37 speed limits are good and all, but why's my dude overtaking on the right, having secure driving as a main point of the video? :D
Sure, in this scene the car having the camera is aware it's beeing overtaken, but stil not a good image to get normalised to ;)
(In the end, doesn't really matter, it'S 'just' a video - I was just noticing it and can't help but laugh)
Unfortunately, the fairy tale about driving what the car gives is wrong. A visual driving requirement applies.
This means that there is a limit due to the visibility restriction alone. The stopping distance, i.e. the distance it takes for a vehicle to come to a stop after recognizing an obstacle during emergency braking, corresponds to about half the speed value in meters. As an example: A car drives 100 km/h then it takes 50 m to brake the car to 0. How far can you see with seeing? I would say about 150 m, which means conversely, limit is 300 km/h, there is another factor, the driver has to adapt to the conditions. In other words, traffic volume and weather conditions and the driver's performance. Thus, the claim that there is no limit is refuted. An accident at high speeds of 130 + is often almost impossible to survive. Therefore, do not drive faster than your guardian angel can fly.
How you call some one driving 200 Km/h on the Autobahn? Roadblock! 🤣 You have to be aware, driving 200 -250 km/h that you are not interested in what is 100 m ahead, because that is already passed by, you must be focused on 300 - 500 m ahead. As one who is driving around 1.000 km a week on German-Autobahn, like going fast, that end of the day it is matter what you would like to pay at the gas station! Unfortunately!
naja zu irwas muss der führerschein ja nutzen haben!kostest viel ..stresst viel..und am ende sind alle glücklich wenn man ihn hat.bis zum ersten autobahn arroganz-ausflug....hihihih
Please, don't take those videos too serious. The video is not acurate, or let's better say, not complete. A mayor point is: There are hard speedlimits on the Autobahn. A lot of speedlimits. More than 50 % of the Autobahn has actualy permanent speedlimits in place. When it is dangerous, where it could be to dangerous, or even where a lot of accidents happened, are limited to the speed down to 100 km/h, 80 km/h or, e. g. construction sites even down to 60. And the Autobahn is designed differently than "normal" roads as well. Actually, there are way less deadly accidents on the Autobahn than on other roads. And a lot of accidents are not caused by the fast drivers, but by drivers who acted stupid and didn't pay apropriate attention.
The death numbers of 20000 are historical, in the last decades, they typically were somewhere between 3000 and 4000. A lot of that was a result of better security built into the cars and the widespread introduction of mobile phones, which allowed to get help extraordinary fast, led to one of the last big drop in fatality.
Regarding the german mentality: The times, when the ADAC advocated for unlimited speed are long gone and today there are majorities in the population in favour of a general speed limit of 120km/h. Part of that is due to the wish for more safety and another big part is due to the environmental impact. Many people also understood, that very high speeds by some drivers tend to decrease traffic flow for everybody else, once there is a little more traffic. If cars at 150km/h and more regularly pass you on your left in dense traffic, you don´t have the chance to go to the left lane to pass a 90km/h truck, which slows you down, but more importantly, causes all the traffic to slow, except for the fastest drivers. Given the traffic on the german Autobahn, typically all drivers would be able to keep a quite conatant speed of 120km/h over long distances, if the general speed limit was 120 or slightly higher.
The 130km/h limit is not exactly a "recommended" speed, but I am not aware of a good translation of the german term "Richtgeschwindigkeit". Yes, it comes with the recommendation to rarely drive faster and for the most part drive slower than that. But there is a little more to that concept. Legally, it makes a big difference, if you were driving slower or faster than 130, if you are involved in an accident. If you were faster, chances are bad for you, that you are not considered partially responsible for the accident, even if the other ones messed up everything else that led to the accident.
Hallo,
I‘m a german and drive since 1982 . My opinion is that the speed is not the problem. The problem are the people who must look every minute to their mobile/handy instead of the street. When i go fast , i turn off my radio and after that, i go faster than 220 km/h without any distraction. And in most countries the driving training is not as good or as long or as expansive (several thousand €) than in germany😭.
My dream is a test every 2 years for everybody in a cheap simulator, like grandtourismo or assetto corsa. And if the trainee can‘ t beat a time under 16 min without an accident on the nordschleife (most famous racetrack in germany) with a car of his choice , he lost his driving license In the sim the trainee can‘ t die. So it is better for a Lot. (joke 😅).
I‘ m in the high 50ties and drive every week with my sim rig at home and hope that I‘m able to beat the time for the next decades. If not, I give my driving licence back.
In the way, I like your point of view on so many different themes in the last weeks. Go on please.
What a fake! 2,817 people died in Germany in 2023. That's 2.817 too many. But many were also cyclists, pedestrians or scooter riders, and that's on 620,000 kilometres of roads in Germany. As I said, 2817 too many, but the video is rubbish!