What's With You Guys And Speeding Tickets?
06-12-2003, 07:32 AM
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Originally Posted by TYSON' date='Jun 11 2003, 07:33 PM
I've driven on the autobahn in Germany, and I've gotta say our highways in North America are constructed much safer than thiers.
Between Frankfurt and Stuttgart the road has no shoulder on either side. Trucks go 90 (KPH, it's 2003 people!) in the right lane, cars go anywhere from 100 to 140 in the centre lane and you pull into the left lane only to pass. If you have a flat tire, there is NO WHERE to go! You can't get your car even halfway off the road on the right, and there might be 2 feet between the white line and the wall on the left. Yet you can usually go as fast as you want in the left lane. Crazy! BUT, they have fewer wrecks than we do. It is a lot harder to get a license there, so drivers are generally better, cars are in better shape, so the roads are safer do to the drivers and their vehicles, not the road itself. Speed limit changes every 10 km too, it's a pain in the ***.
BTW, the Volkswagen Golf is NOT a high speed touring car!
The current government in our province promised to raise the speed limit during the election, but that was 8 years ago and still no action. Too much money to be made through fines, and it's way too easy to get a license. Cars aren't inspected for safety problems except when they are first registered to the current owner. We need much tougher testing for licensing before we can run with no speed limit here. The highways are ready, but there are too many idiots in piece of **** cars on the road.
06-12-2003, 07:45 AM
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this has been quite educational for me!
I kinda wish the USA would have a more advanced drivers license that you could obtain, which allow more privelage, or lower fines. I just want the law to aknowledge that I'm a better driver than the 90-year-old gray tuft of hair poking above the wheel of the gigantic cadillac. Everything is too generalized, and too loose.
I kinda wish the USA would have a more advanced drivers license that you could obtain, which allow more privelage, or lower fines. I just want the law to aknowledge that I'm a better driver than the 90-year-old gray tuft of hair poking above the wheel of the gigantic cadillac. Everything is too generalized, and too loose.
06-12-2003, 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Baldy' date='Jun 12 2003, 04:45 AM
this has been quite educational for me!
I kinda wish the USA would have a more advanced drivers license that you could obtain, which allow more privelage, or lower fines. I just want the law to aknowledge that I'm a better driver than the 90-year-old gray tuft of hair poking above the wheel of the gigantic cadillac. Everything is too generalized, and too loose.
I kinda wish the USA would have a more advanced drivers license that you could obtain, which allow more privelage, or lower fines. I just want the law to aknowledge that I'm a better driver than the 90-year-old gray tuft of hair poking above the wheel of the gigantic cadillac. Everything is too generalized, and too loose.
06-12-2003, 08:20 AM
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Originally Posted by wraith' date='Jun 12 2003, 08:32 AM
[quote name='TYSON' date='Jun 11 2003, 07:33 PM'] 
Party pooper!
I've driven on the autobahn in Germany, and I've gotta say our highways in North America are constructed much safer than thiers.
Between Frankfurt and Stuttgart the road has no shoulder on either side. Trucks go 90 (KPH, it's 2003 people!) in the right lane, cars go anywhere from 100 to 140 in the centre lane and you pull into the left lane only to pass. If you have a flat tire, there is NO WHERE to go! You can't get your car even halfway off the road on the right, and there might be 2 feet between the white line and the wall on the left. Yet you can usually go as fast as you want in the left lane. Crazy! BUT, they have fewer wrecks than we do. It is a lot harder to get a license there, so drivers are generally better, cars are in better shape, so the roads are safer do to the drivers and their vehicles, not the road itself. Speed limit changes every 10 km too, it's a pain in the ***.
BTW, the Volkswagen Golf is NOT a high speed touring car! I drove a 2002, 115 hp diesel, with a 6-speed and 16 " steel wheels. With 4 people in the car I didn't feel comfordable above 140. 2 people 160. By myself 185. It just starts to feel all wobbly if you go faster. Really nice engine for putting around town, but the tranny was hard to find the right gear.
The current government in our province promised to raise the speed limit during the election, but that was 8 years ago and still no action. Too much money to be made through fines, and it's way too easy to get a license. Cars aren't inspected for safety problems except when they are first registered to the current owner. We need much tougher testing for licensing before we can run with no speed limit here. The highways are ready, but there are too many idiots in piece of **** cars on the road.
I've driven on the autobahn in Germany, and I've gotta say our highways in North America are constructed much safer than thiers.
Between Frankfurt and Stuttgart the road has no shoulder on either side. Trucks go 90 (KPH, it's 2003 people!) in the right lane, cars go anywhere from 100 to 140 in the centre lane and you pull into the left lane only to pass. If you have a flat tire, there is NO WHERE to go! You can't get your car even halfway off the road on the right, and there might be 2 feet between the white line and the wall on the left. Yet you can usually go as fast as you want in the left lane. Crazy! BUT, they have fewer wrecks than we do. It is a lot harder to get a license there, so drivers are generally better, cars are in better shape, so the roads are safer do to the drivers and their vehicles, not the road itself. Speed limit changes every 10 km too, it's a pain in the ***.
BTW, the Volkswagen Golf is NOT a high speed touring car!
The current government in our province promised to raise the speed limit during the election, but that was 8 years ago and still no action. Too much money to be made through fines, and it's way too easy to get a license. Cars aren't inspected for safety problems except when they are first registered to the current owner. We need much tougher testing for licensing before we can run with no speed limit here. The highways are ready, but there are too many idiots in piece of **** cars on the road.
I 'undertood' the rules of the road there. The only thing safer about their highways over the ones in my area is the greater distance between on ramps. Although when you get out of the city our on ramps are a long ways apart too, and the merge lane itself is usually much longer here. Our highways in my area ARE safer than theirs, the drivers are clearly the problem. The rules of the road as far as using the left lane only for passing are supposed to apply here as well, but since they are not law, nobody thinks they need to follow that rule. We have legislation in process now to make it a law that the left lane is for passing only, but they tacked a bunch of other stuff on that will make my car illegal.
Baldy, the trouble with just you having more driver training is that few other people would. You would know what to do, but you would still be at risk because of that old lady, who never actually took a driving test. When she got her license all she had to do was apply and go pick it up at the general store / post office / blacksmith.
06-12-2003, 09:00 AM
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Originally Posted by TYSON' date='Jun 12 2003, 05:20 AM
We have legislation in process now to make it a law that the left lane is for passing only, but they tacked a bunch of other stuff on that will make my car illegal.