What if the US got an Autobahn?

[Led Zeppelin]

Originally posted by: codeyf

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: joshsquall
I'd be doing 150 in a Ford Escort

Impossible. The car would expload well before it hits 150.

I have yet to see anything expload. I wonder what that involves....

LOL

and ROFL!!!!! @ an Escort doing 150. The only things doing 150 are the escorts that you find in the Yellow Pages.

 

[Regs]

Think my 98 Honda could handle 150 mph? lol .

On the road there is one thing I really hate and can't imagine having with a American Autobahn.

People who yield or completely stop on a on-ramp connecting to the highway. How do you expect to catch up to traffic going 0 mph? Argh! They will have to go from 0-100 mph in like... 3 seconds without getting killed from on coming traffic.

 

[UNCjigga]

Dude...I-95 IS the Autobahn...didn't you know there's (apparently) no speed limit on that highway?

 

[Ime]

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
Dude...I-95 IS the Autobahn...didn't you know there's (apparently) no speed limit on that highway?

I've often heard of the I-285 loop around Atlanta refered to as the Autobahn of the South.

 

[Karsten]

With a speedlimit of 55mph (real trafic flows about 65-70) 285 is hardly a Autobahn!

 

[alkemyst]

American drivers would be a nightmare on an 'autobahn'. Already with these SUV/Truck people thinking "well he will have to let me go/stop for me because my vehicle will crush his little car".

You have the idiot in a bald-tire 1974 lincoln that hasn't had the brakes or suspension worked on in the last 50,000 miles barrelling down I-95 already at 100-120mph that can barely stay in his own lane.

In germany, not all people drive at outrageous speeds on the Autobahn, and in areas there are posted limits. People will stop you if you pass on the right and beat you there. People also yield properly and move aside when a faster vehicle approaches instead of playing NASCAR blocking.

Driving in America is a mess.

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: Ime

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA
Dude...I-95 IS the Autobahn...didn't you know there's (apparently) no speed limit on that highway?

I've often heard of the I-285 loop around Atlanta refered to as the Autobahn of the South.

I-285 loops around Atlanta, and some idiots call it the autobahn of the south, but it really isn't. A trip on I-285 would give you an average speed of 60 mph....

 

[Angrymarshmello]

That means less fvcking ricers on the road. They'll all just crash and blow up

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello
That means less fvcking ricers on the road. They'll all just crash and blow up

HAHAHA, that's a classic

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Arizona already has an Autobahn-its called Interstate 17

 

[Finality]

Originally posted by: Dead Parrot Sketch
More death, just like in Germany.

"Many proponents of increased speed limits cite the experience of the German autobahn system, which is generally believed to have no speed limits whatsoever and a lower fatality rate than American highways, thus suggesting that higher speeds do not adversely affect safety. In reality, 31% of the autobahn was posted with permanent speed limits in 1993, and during all but four years since 1975, the death rate on the autobahn has been higher than that on U.S. interstates."
http://www.icbc.com/Library/recovery/Volume7/Number2/FasterButDeadlier/


And this is with their stricter licensing requirements.

Speed kills.

Looks like more political rhetoric.

http://www.ibiblio.org/rdu/nhtsalie.html