German vs. American Drivers - A Trip Report and Call to Arms

[miajag]

FWIW, I've read that the traffic laws in Germany are much stricter, e.g. it's actually illegal to "cruise" in the left lane or pass on the right on the autobahn, and you get hit with a very hefty fine for doing so. Maybe if this stuff were against the law in the U.S. fewer people would do it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobah...nd_enforcement

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My personal driving habits are to drive the posted limit or 5 over and try to stay right.


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Irrespective of the traffic flow speed? If so, then you're one of the crazies out there.

[Nev. Chamberlain]

Whenever a German driver approaches from behind, I ALWAYS move immediately over.

[kerowo]

I believe the German's also actualy educate their citizens about how to drive before giving them a license. It doesn't hurt that there are what, 12 German's and about 8 miles of highway in the whole country. (or whatever)

[By-Tor]

lol, funny thread (rant).


ummmmm, since everyone in germany is such a great driver, there must be many more of them on the roads then in America, right? wait...no? there are hundreds of thousands more drivers here??? NO WAI!!!! I am shocked!

Also...I'm guessing that you only need to be in the fast lane once and have somebody zoom up on you doing 150 mph before you decide for yourself that it isn't a great idea to be doing 75 in the fast lane there.

lol, please drive down 101 or 880 in CA someday and tell me you think it would be better, safer or faster if everyone were in the slow lane except when passing....



Germany != US

...go figure.

[secretprankster]

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Whenever a German driver approaches from behind, I ALWAYS move immediately over.

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The fact that this account has existed for 16 months is awesome.

[Slow Play Ray]

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ummmmm, since everyone in germany is such a great driver, there must be many more of them on the roads then in America, right? wait...no? there are hundreds of thousands more drivers here??? NO WAI!!!! I am shocked!

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ummmmm, you do realize the united states is geographically 26x bigger than germany, right? so yeah, no kidding there are more drivers overall. but come on, it's not like germany is a third-world country - people do drive cars and their highways are plenty crowded...they're just FAR more efficient at moving the traffic along.

and obviously i am talking about normal highway driving - clearly this system (or any other) won't help in typical LA (or Boston) rush-hour type traffic...

[miajag]

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Whenever a German driver approaches from behind, I ALWAYS move immediately over.

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The fact that this account has existed for 16 months is awesome.

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The fact that this account has existed for one month is shocking.

[PokerJans]

The highway issue you are talking about is a national thing. However as a sidenote I must say that people in Massachusetts are terrible drivers in general.

[Tron]

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lol, please drive down 101 or 880 in CA someday and tell me you think it would be better, safer or faster if everyone were in the slow lane except when passing....

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It would be better, safer, and faster if everyone were in the slow lane except when passing.