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2019-02-26 -Land of the Free

Is the American Autobahn next? How states are pushing highway speeds past the limit

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Posted by Fred 2019-02-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1

I'm having fond memories of my Firebird Formula big block. 160 mph on the northwest prairies. Slowing down to 100 seemed surreal, like you could get out and walk.

Shudder to think about the average folks with zero track time. Oh well.

Posted by Woodrow 2019-02-26 04:54|| 2019-02-26 04:54|| Front Page Top

#2 Now just build the damn things as good as the Autobahn. Not something that needs repair in five years calling for more ~~graft~~ public construction work and a hundred miles of orange barrels (and the associated slow traffic construction zones).

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-02-26 05:56|| 2019-02-26 05:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Already in effect in Georgia. The left lanes on I-75 and I-85 apparently have no speed limits.

Pack racing rules apply.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-02-26 07:32|| 2019-02-26 07:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Autobahn (Kraftwerk)

Posted by European Conservative 2019-02-26 07:39|| 2019-02-26 07:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Now just build the damn things as good as the Autobahn.

In California? Surely you jest.

From what I've heard about German gas stations, maybe someone can confirm this, the cars get much more thorough service than at our self-serve quiki-marts. We have a lot of nice, fast cars out here but we have a lot of clunkers too and if the clunkers get out on the autobahn it's gonna be a problem...not to mention the dumbass drivers. The biggest problem we have is congestion and I don't see how this is gonna help. How can you go 100 mph when the dumbass five cars ahead of you is going 45? If our Highway Patrol was worth a damn they'd be on the lookout for slow pokes so they could pull them over and cite them for obstructing the flow of traffic. That'd help a lot. But the only time you see those guys is when there's an accident.

I'd settle for more lanes, NOT HOV lanes, so we could do 65. Most of the time on Interstate 5 it's so congested you're lucky if you can get up to 40.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-02-26 10:36|| 2019-02-26 10:36|| Front Page Top

#6 One of the things I love about living here in Atlanta, B! Didn't realize how fast we drive until I drove through NC on a college tour last week, screaming at the top of my lungs at the idiots who *dared* to drive the speed limit in the left lane and wouldn't get over when I flashed my headlights at em. The nerve.

Posted by Jack Bonaparte7513 2019-02-26 12:34|| 2019-02-26 12:34|| Front Page Top

#7 I flashed my headlights at em

ah, there may be a little German in all of us. LOL

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-02-26 14:32|| 2019-02-26 14:32|| Front Page Top

#8 they go about 85-90 on the 80mph limited areas here in Idaho, but thy seem to do fine......

Posted by 746 2019-02-26 14:41|| 2019-02-26 14:41|| Front Page Top

#9 A few years back, a study showed the Autobahn was safer than the US interstates. The Germans have discipline. We do not.

Posted by Bobby down under 2019-02-26 21:12|| 2019-02-26 21:12|| Front Page Top

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