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Americans when they visit Germany the first time
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You can tell he is American because he blocks the left line while the right lane is free
There is a blue van in the right lane, and at 270 km/h (168 MPH), he's going to be right behind it in a second. Therefore the lane is not β in fact β free.
I hope for everyone's sake you don't drive.
Also he's doing 270 going into a stretch limited to 120. IDK what German traffic laws are like, but the image I have of Germany is that you guys have even harsher punishments than us in Denmark. If you did 270 in a 120 in DK, you'd get a 2000β¬ fine (15000DKK), as well losing both your license and your car. You might even get jail time.
What's even worse is that as a foreigner (maybe not a Schengen citizen, but definitely Americans) we don't trust you to pay the fine, so you'd be detained until you get the money. I've seen policeshows where foreigners are even driven to ATMs, and it seems a bit like extortion.
Actually, our punishments for speeding are very mild compared to much of the rest of Europe. Going over the limit by such a margin will get you lose your license though.
Loss of license is comparatively mild? What do they do in the rest of europe? Public execution? π
I don't know what the other countries will do, but Danish police will auction off the car ... and throw you in jail as well as taking your license and fining you 2000β¬.
"What if the car isn't mine? What if it's leased or borrowed?" I hear you ask. If it's not your car, then you owe someone a car, because the police just sold the one you went more than 200km/h in, and the government kept the money.
Don't believe me? Check out this guy who had his Lamborghini for less than a day (in Danish, use your preferred translation service) https://www.boosted.dk/koerte-228-km-t-i-danmark-nu-skal-hans-lamborghini-paa-auktion/
I translated it into English and it says:
"Oops... we can't find the page
Unfortunately, we cannot find the page you are trying to access.
The page may have been moved or deleted."
Regardless, crazy.
Sorry, I removed what seemed like a rather long tracking ID, but apparently you can't load the page without it. Anyway I've updated the link for anyone else who'd like to know what we do with your car in Denmark if you speed.
Going almost triple the speed limit like that in the United States will end up being a combination of felonies, you'll be taken directly to jail, and your car will be impounded as evidence. You could serve years depending on how the felonies shake out, you'll no longer be able to vote, and the fines will be thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars. Further, lethal force on the part of an officer would arguably be authorized given the clear and present danger to the public by someone going at such an egregious speed.
I'm not sure such an over-the-top example is great evidence of how strict Danish moving violations are.
*car in front of a blue road sign
The bollards on the right side of the road are at a distance of 50m from each other, by which we can estimate that the other car is at least 250 to 300 meters away. 270km/h equals 75m/s so they are about 4 seconds behind (if the other car was stationary).
To answer this question it is much more important to know what is on the right lane next to or behind the car, which we do not see in this image anyway.
And you can tell how fast that van is driving from this picture? Or how long the POV car has been in the left lane already?
Even if the Van was stationary it would take the car 5 seconds to reach it at 270 kmh
You're going to want to be in the passing lane more than 5s before you pass another vehicle, doubly so at 270.
Oh he does: the people who whine about using the left lane are the ones who want to do 40 over the speed limit while weaving around traffic without signaling
On the autobahn? While sections do have a speed limit, the "no speed limit" is kinda the autobahn's whole schtick.