Before you all get too exercised by simch's 150mph jaunt, going on a thread from him over on Audisport.net, he was in Germany on an Autobahn.
Lose it at 150 anywhere in the world though, and you're likely to end up toast, at least in a road car...
He got it! See, some of the safest roads in the world, here in Germany. And I DID pass a copper in one of the laybyes!
Difference is, German drivers respect speed and the use of speed, they have to, there are places where there is no limit. If a truck pulls into a lane and a Merc oding 155 slams into it, the trucky is in for some serious grief!!
Its just people's perspective, experience and respect for speed that differs. In the UK, there are too many fools stuck in one lane so they can pretty much go to sleep and not stay over to the left as they should. And even more who sit at GPS 68, (indicated 70) in the outside lane for miles and miles, relative speed 1mph more than the twonk they are trying to pass in the middle lane on his phone! Give them a flash, to indicate you are there, and its all gesticulation, V signs etc...................the same losers who happily drive through my village when the school is dropping the kids off at 40+mph......!!
Our roads have developed this way due ot bad driver training, increased traffic loads and too many people used to it and putting up with it.
Sooner police start prosecuting lanehogs and dozy people, (christ going down M20 the other day, a cop cars comes past, blues and twos, I saw him miles off, moved over, getin in behind him, to make some progress! The number of people that he came up behind and sat behind for at least half a mile, before they noticed him.......they should be prosecuted for driving wihtout due care and attention!!) Oh it was an unmarked silver Octavia estate BTW,i stayed in his slipstream for about 10 miles before he started the rear strobes to "warn me off!"!lol!
I drive over here a lot, to be fair more than in the UK nowadays. I have only ever seen the aftermath of one accident on the autobahn, or indeed any main road over here. And yet in the UK, EVERY SINGLE DAY At least one motorway is closed for an accident, and in december it seemed like there were at least 10 accidents on the same motorways every single morning...........? Motorways clogged with traffic and average speeds of only 40mph in some cases, BEFORE the crash! Normally truck drivers involved, often foreign, often defective vehicles......! But tell me, how many times do they set the speed cameras to 45 on a trunk road and cathc all the truckers speeding? How often do the "safety vans" set their speed limit fo rth camera at 58mph, to catch all the speeding foreign truckers, (whos trucks will do 70mph!) ............Not very often as its easier to catch car drivers at 75!!