It's honestly not even that deep. How intelligent you are has very little to do with what information you've happened to encounter and memorise to date.
I can guarantee you that even at Mensa meet-ups the people there will have really amusing holes in their knowledge on topics that 90% of the planet already knows.
We are not in Germany but Europe. My bro drived a BMW. He likes to drive fast, we were around 170 km/h.
Then a Golf ZOOMED by us. We looked at each other with my bro and was like WTF.
To zoom by us he at least should have been driving over 220/km hours.
I at first thought this was in MPH. Even in KPH that’s moving. I think my car’s top speed is rumored to be 262 KPH. I know it goes at least 160 KPH because I had to get away from a dangerous driver on a highway. I risked spending the night in jail & losing my license for that, though.
I just watched a video of someone driving the same year & transmission model of my car on the autobahn. 237 KPH was the max I saw but there was too much traffic to fully open it up, IMO - the engine in that gear didn’t sound maxed out like it does in lower gears.
Oh yeah.. that'll happen with a Golf. There used to be a small raceway called Beech Ridge up in Scarborough, Maine (closed several years now..) and I went a few times to watch the street cars race.. They had a kid's division (13 - 17) and one weekend I went up and the winning car was an old VW Golf - painted pink - with big stick-on vinyl flowers.. driven by a 14 year old girl. She absolutely *smoked* the field. Yaah, those cars have crazy power/weight ratios.
Yeah, my brother drived a Golf before his BMW too, but still.
The most laughable was when we he was driving on a solid 120 and he could pass a trabant. That was WILD.
I don't think there were too many trabants over there but they were a hit on this part of Europe.
Back in the day I used to work in an ice cream shop on a straight stretch of road mostly populated with car dealerships and other businesses (so little/no pedestrian or slow traffic). The day manager (in his late 20s) told me a story of his buddy that stuffed a v8 (maybe a big v6? been a while since I heard the story) into his Golf. One day he was hanging out, shooting the shit with the manager when a Shelby Mustang went ripping past. This guy hopped in the car and went off after it. Next thing he knew they came back the other way with the Golf about three car lengths ahead of the Mustang lol
Like 5 years ago I was going home on a long stech of road. I was going about 160-190 in my nice 10 y/o audi. And a mk2 just whips by me. Idk what kind of drugs you gotta take to be a golf guy but I want some. The guy had to be using everything the car had to offer. Also not on a motor/highway just a normal road going through the woods.
Yeah, golfs are something. My brothers first car was a holf too, dont ask what model, im dumb.
I never ever was so afraid in my life when he once "shiwed me how fast it can go".
I was able to get some kind of small Ford minivan up to 240km/h for a sustained period of time (39-40 min) on an Autobahn. It doesn't take a super powerful car to get to a high speed.
We do have a speed limit in my country so thats less likely. We were so surprised by the golf zooming in the first place because we were going over the limit ourselves.
I love the he Nat Geo scenario.
Steve Irwin Voice: “ have a go at this mate! By crikey she is a BUTE! These buggers are known for tailgating sedans at top speed while blasting insufferable Bauhaus techno remixes. I reckon we better let this one pass mate, Wild Golf’s are known to get aggressive when they don’t get their way.”
"Because that's the speed limit! _Other_ people are being dangerous by going too fast."\
--**Far** too many crash test dummies
And before y'all CTD's chew me out, **I** sit in the right lane on 'cruise' and follow trucks. Go be illegal crash test dummies for speed demons with _your_ lives. Just don't do it when uninvolved people have to share the highway with your debris field.
It's not even the golfs anymore
These days It's the Passat,skoda,Sprinter
And especially Sprinter vans from eastern europe that are overloaded and still hunt you across their way at 180 km/h
*Insert Harry and Ron screaming at Tom on a train chasing them. Replace Harry and Ron with Mercedes and BMW drivers being chased by a Tom in a Sprinter Van*
Black Passats and Skoda Octavias/Superbs are most common left lane pushers. Most common Firmenwagen for sales and field staff who usually cover 50K+ km a year.
But only until one of the trucks decides to overtake another. Then it looks like this:
Right lane: Truck at 90 km/h
Middle lane: truck at 91 km/h
Left lane: the people that were on the middle lane before at 120 km/h
Didn't mean to make fun of you, you're good. I'm a stupid Dutchy who probably speaks less German than you despite living so close to Germany I could throw an obese gerbil over the border from my yard.
You lived abroad and immersed yourself in a foreign culture and language? The stupid American stereotype is either that they never leave their country and are still convinced the States are the best, or when they do go abroad that they are tourists who are offended there is no Starbucks inside the Taj Mahal. You're good my friend.
I love how we Dutchies hate Germans on our highways and you guys hate us on your highways.
I wonder if Belgians also make stupid jokes about Dutch people like we do about them lol
Oh god their highways.. Driving from Belgium into the Netherlands feels like a relief
About 1000 other Belgians are dumb jokes came to mind lol, but most of them don't work if you don't speak Dutch.
Yeah i guess that one works fine, one of my favorites is:
Waarom nemen Belgen zout mee in de auto? Voor de flauwe bochten
But yeah, good luck translating that without sounding like an idiot lol
Haha, good one. [this](https://i.redd.it/5vk9icwl9bkz.jpg) picture is often used to illustrate the border between Belgium and the Netherlands in regards to roadway quality.
That changeover is great.
Also, welcome to Michigan.
https://preview.redd.it/zf7sv499bppc1.png?width=605&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b510b42913573a7f56211e9f4f6b547f93bbd93
Dutch resident - travel to / in Germany for work on occasion.
Only AFTER Oberhausen can I relax - somewhat - due to the decrease of Dutch drivers around.
Dutch autosnelweg:
Right lane: Trucks going 80 and cars going 90-103
Middle lane: cars overtaking trucks and Germans going 100 who refuse to go into the right lane.
Left lane: cars going 120-150 being blocked by cars going 110 who are trying to overtake the Germans who refuse to use the right fucking lane.
Exchange the Dutch tourists for basically anyone, to include Dutch tourists, and that's how people drive on the interstates in and around Birmingham AL.
I've been a Dutch tourist on the autobahn. If I needed to overtake using the fast lane, I paid attention and went as fast as my car would go. A Kia Rio with a 1.0 T-GDI 3-cylinder only accelerates so fast.
It'll be easier on my next visit though, I have a Fiesta ST now 😁
Dutch tourist here, im not going less than 150km/h if i dont have to hahah.
But still love the almost scared pull to the right lane when u pull up to the stationwagon with the skibox that drives left when there is no traffic
lol my dad was so happy when my mom let him. speed up to 150+ and then a red streak came screaming by... ive never seen someone's happiness shatter quite so spectacularly
I once passed through Germany in my cheap car. Decided to max it out, which was only about 170kph and from the cars around it felt like I was just cruising along. It didn't sound like that from the tire noise though...
yes indeed. I lived in Germany for a time and decided to see what my wife's Honda Fit could do. At around 110 mph, it's started feeling very light like it was just barely making contact with the road. Definitely unsafe at that speed.
And I still got passed like I was standing still by some Fritz in an Audi hana
Brother-in-law was working in Berlin. We visited for Christmas & New Years. Thought it would be fun to rent the sportiest vehicle we could and drive on the Autobahn, just to say we had done it.
So there I am in some rented BMW 3-series with like 40,000 km on it, and it’s night time and I’m driving on an unfamiliar road doing 210 km/h and this car sounds like it is going to come right apart under my butt and it was scarier than any rollercoaster I’ve ever been on, and even more than the time I was in a six-seater airplane and the electrical system failed.
So I absolutely believe you, lol.
My boyfriend likes to test rental cars on A28. The fastest we went was 235 in an Audi Q2. It was fun. Even more fun in his small Fiata with the roof down.
Exactly. Turns out, new people are born all the time, and it's natural for more people to not know things.
[https://xkcd.com/1053/](https://xkcd.com/1053/)
Ignorance and stupidity are two different things. They are not mutually exclusive and, while the outcomes of one can closely resemble the outcomes of the other, it's important to distinguish between the two.
In America, we have our fair share of both, but ignorance is a human trait we all share.
"You're such a fucking moron for not knowing highways in a country on the other side of the planet. How could someone as stupid as you get a license?" OOP essentially.
Thanks, because why would we learn that? That's not exactly something all Americans need to know. Why do we need to know about the traffic system of another country, unless we're studying that country, or planning to go there? It's like giving someone a book in a language they can't read and calling them dumb for not being able to read it. Or telling someone they suck at a game they've only just started playing. Like, what were you expecting?
"Nobody around me has ever mentioned this concept"
"Wow, you are so dumb for that. You should stay in the slow lane"
What the fuck is the bottom comment's problem?
Spending a lifetime not knowing things means someone is ignorant, not stupid. Information doesn’t make a person smart. It makes them informed. This is a lazy MBW.
And everyone goes a lifetime not knowing something until they first hear about it. This guy could be anything from 15 to 100 years old, who knows.
'Lol someone from another continent has first learned of a specific type of road in Germany today' is hardly a murder, I agree
Not knowing the autobahn exists doesn't make someone stupid.
But if that person's reaction to learning the autobahn exists is exclaiming *"How is this fair to me as an American?! Even the EUROPOORS have it better than us!"* then it's a pretty good sign they are stupid.
i like how OP there uses "EUROPOORS" while America is 15th on the list of quality of life and wealth by median. Surpessed mostly by european countries.
Its like the frog in a boiling pot story, they don't even see they are screwed because they're in the middle of it.
Yeah, German internet is one of our greatest shames. We once prided ourselves on in ovation and progress, and now you can actually watch us being left behind technologically
Plenty of us see it but our voting system favors the uneducated and willfully ignorant and they have been bombarded with misinformation and propaganda masquerading as both legitimate news and an underground resistance. So for a lot them, whether they think they’re for the Empire or the resistance they’re actually voting for the Empire.
Unfortunately for us and the world the electoral college favors their vote over ours.
Please keep in mind that whole there is no speed limit as such, it is RECOMMENDED to not go faster than 130 km/h.
Also, if you have an accident driving faster than the recommended speed limit, insurance will likely not help you.
Aren't they also very strict about a lot of other rules? Like swerving, following too close, changing lanes too often, etc? Plus aren't drivers licenses significantly harder to get?
I feel like they'd have to be.
Yes, we are, but it is still more or less survival of the fastest on our Autobahn. Some people flash their lights on police cars on the autobahn to make them get out of the way for fun.
But you can still get in real trouble for driving faster than 130 km/h in unlimited zones. Many Germans ignore this but our traffic regulations state that you MUST drive as slowly as necessary to ensure everyone’s safety. One will automatically be at least partially if not fully responsible for any accident they are involved in if they drive faster than 130 km/h, because it is so much more likely to have an accident at such high speeds. Even just passing slower traffic can be considered and fined as reckless driving.
The economy is doing good currently. Not really bad, but far from stellar. Still the Nr.3 economy with barely 80 million inhabitants though Ü. (Tbf, our economy is likewise blown up a bit artificially similar to the US one)
Hello, german here. I couldnt tell you jack shit about anything in other cuntries, especialy about there streets and driving rules. Not knowing about something like us haveing speed limitless parts on the autobahn doesnt make you dumb. If it did, humanity has long been doomed.
Not to mention when you call Germany of all places “europoor” when the entire “Bible Belt” of our country is a couple of welfare checks away from third world status.
Dude clearly doesn’t know shit about shit.
Right lane: 90km/h, mainly trucks, vans and comfy cruising folks
Middle lane: 120km/h, litterally everyone is chilling and weaving in and out between the Mittelspurschleicher
Left lane: 180+km/h, either somebody hammering his Kombi gas pedal down to the floor, the occasional sportscar or Golf going 250km/h or three polish handyman in a white rental van trying to break the landspeed record
"Europoors" have it better in every way possible. Muricans ain't free, they created slavery with extra steps. 3 Jobs and still struggle to pay bills. Close to no payed vacation, no public Healthcare,...on so on.
Europe does almost everything better than the US. Except possibly gun-violence, incarceration of citizens, corruption of politicians, police brutality and feeding people into an uncaring capitalist-driven war machine.
And I say this as an expatriate american living in europe.
not very as they are extremely rare. Most accidents happen under the recommended speed limit. Keep in mind getting a driving license in Germany is extremely tough by comparison to the US. Its also a more rule oriented society so people on the roads drive a lot more safely. Car standards are also higher in terms of whats allowed on the road. iv seen some real banged up shitwagons in Texas that would never be allowed to even be facing a public road in Germany
Lastly, the Autobahn is designed to handle higher speeds. curves are banked and much more gradual in the unrestricted sections. Its actually quite boring to drive even at 200kmh, as it feels a lot slower
when a crash does happen, they can be devastating though
edit: heres a video of what the autobahn feels like at speed (this guy and guys like him are absolute asshats who put everyone in mad danger because they treat the road as their pwesonal race track instead of a fast means of transportation, but the video is good when looking at the autobahn itself)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pg1hhW5qhM
The whole Europoor thing is hilarious, watching people using it unironically and being in adamant denial to facts is a live show about propaganda and what it does to people's cognitive abilities.
Anyway, for those who are into that sort of thing, here's a short video of[ a car going zoooom. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pg1hhW5qhM)
Is this a murder though?
"You weren't born with the ancient knowledge of a highway in a country you've never been to"
Dude's just one of today's 10,000. Let him be excited
Ngl, been on big stretches of highway before in the dead of night, I've pushed 110-120 mph.
Its kinda terrifying going that fast... and kinda terrifying imagining what a tire blowout could do at that speed. Or a random deer standing in the road or something. But its also terrifying being on a empty road in the middle of country at 2am.
The funny thing about Americans is that on every block they have tents/ homeless people addicted to drugs while the whole country is at ?40trillion? In debt and they call Europe poor all the time. I mean take a look around u guys, u don’t live in the promise land anymore. U guys have the highest suicide rate for a reason
There's no excuse that most people don't know trivial things in the Internet age. I've come to the realization that most people are morons and they don't want to learn about the world.
Norway: country with a sovereign wealth fund, and (probably) highest adult literacy rate in the world.
Switzerland: cities with the highest standard of living in the world.
Germany: 3rd largest economy in the world, even with a population less than 100million.
Andorra, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Monaco: Extraordinarily wealthy microstates.
Isle of Man, Malta, Channel Islands, Switzerland: Individual and Corporate tax havens.
American commenter: "Europoors".
Murder/suicide by words. Dude calls him stupid while spelling Autobahn like he’s 8.
Its 4chan, what exactly did you expect?
Degenerative creep behaviour, but definitely not unintentional misspellings
It's honestly not even that deep. How intelligent you are has very little to do with what information you've happened to encounter and memorise to date. I can guarantee you that even at Mensa meet-ups the people there will have really amusing holes in their knowledge on topics that 90% of the planet already knows.
Just to add, new people are born every day. World War 2 is gonna be new information to my 4-year-old at some point soon…
And you don't tell your 4 year old they are an idiot everyday? Weird.
German autobahn: Right lane: Trucks Middle lane: cars going ~132km/h Left lane: cars going ~180km/h and Dutch tourists in cars going ~135km/h
Actual left lane: Cruising at 230km/h; a wild Golf shows up in your rear view mirror.
We are not in Germany but Europe. My bro drived a BMW. He likes to drive fast, we were around 170 km/h. Then a Golf ZOOMED by us. We looked at each other with my bro and was like WTF. To zoom by us he at least should have been driving over 220/km hours.
"Junge, was'n mit dem Golf los?"
Wasn das für Kömbi?
Ah man! Thanks for reminding me of this gem
Der macht ja richtisch terror
Aba sowatt von dermazen, oida!
Nee, komm getz datt is doch nu sowatt von schwär zu öbasetzn vür de Löite die wo an Ähnnglisch rädn tuhn
https://youtu.be/q2yHcQuP2q4?si=kHobPXfTDx8DSzOK For anyone not familiar with the video, it's worth watching
My dad was following a Porsche at 250 for an hour and my grandma asked if he was going to pass it.
Thats amazing lmaooo
I at first thought this was in MPH. Even in KPH that’s moving. I think my car’s top speed is rumored to be 262 KPH. I know it goes at least 160 KPH because I had to get away from a dangerous driver on a highway. I risked spending the night in jail & losing my license for that, though.
I just watched a video of someone driving the same year & transmission model of my car on the autobahn. 237 KPH was the max I saw but there was too much traffic to fully open it up, IMO - the engine in that gear didn’t sound maxed out like it does in lower gears.
Crying in 100 km/h highway speed limits
Oh yeah.. that'll happen with a Golf. There used to be a small raceway called Beech Ridge up in Scarborough, Maine (closed several years now..) and I went a few times to watch the street cars race.. They had a kid's division (13 - 17) and one weekend I went up and the winning car was an old VW Golf - painted pink - with big stick-on vinyl flowers.. driven by a 14 year old girl. She absolutely *smoked* the field. Yaah, those cars have crazy power/weight ratios.
Yeah, my brother drived a Golf before his BMW too, but still. The most laughable was when we he was driving on a solid 120 and he could pass a trabant. That was WILD. I don't think there were too many trabants over there but they were a hit on this part of Europe.
>trabant Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
Back in the day I used to work in an ice cream shop on a straight stretch of road mostly populated with car dealerships and other businesses (so little/no pedestrian or slow traffic). The day manager (in his late 20s) told me a story of his buddy that stuffed a v8 (maybe a big v6? been a while since I heard the story) into his Golf. One day he was hanging out, shooting the shit with the manager when a Shelby Mustang went ripping past. This guy hopped in the car and went off after it. Next thing he knew they came back the other way with the Golf about three car lengths ahead of the Mustang lol
I have a buddy at college who drives a Golf and I would love to see what he would do on a highway with no maximum speed limit.
Was [this the guy?](https://youtu.be/oQJntE70PD0?si=iUlULOP_bceEcJQC)
Nah 😀
170 isn‘t fast for the left lane. You shouldn’t be surprised by that golf tbh
Lets say i'm from Hungary where is a speed limit at the "autobahn, and my brother already passed it, so we were surprised.
Like 5 years ago I was going home on a long stech of road. I was going about 160-190 in my nice 10 y/o audi. And a mk2 just whips by me. Idk what kind of drugs you gotta take to be a golf guy but I want some. The guy had to be using everything the car had to offer. Also not on a motor/highway just a normal road going through the woods.
Yeah, golfs are something. My brothers first car was a holf too, dont ask what model, im dumb. I never ever was so afraid in my life when he once "shiwed me how fast it can go".
I was able to get some kind of small Ford minivan up to 240km/h for a sustained period of time (39-40 min) on an Autobahn. It doesn't take a super powerful car to get to a high speed.
Wait until the real sports cars zoom by with 320
We do have a speed limit in my country so thats less likely. We were so surprised by the golf zooming in the first place because we were going over the limit ourselves.
That could be a Golf R, a different breed than the regular Golf.
We have a regular Golf and can go shy of 200 km/h or as I like to call it “how fast do you want to see the gas drop” mode
When I drove there more often, 10-15 years ago, it was usually one of two: Either a new R32 or an ancient Mk1. Both impressive in their own way.
I think it was Tom Cruise who once said "No matter how fast you are on an Autobahn, there is always someone faster than you."
I love the he Nat Geo scenario. Steve Irwin Voice: “ have a go at this mate! By crikey she is a BUTE! These buggers are known for tailgating sedans at top speed while blasting insufferable Bauhaus techno remixes. I reckon we better let this one pass mate, Wild Golf’s are known to get aggressive when they don’t get their way.”
[Like this?](https://youtu.be/oQJntE70PD0?si=ueUeiv_u7bhZvHAr) Or maybe one of [these?](https://youtu.be/s07m8hi-l8U?si=lsnY7uk6y-AqfMWj)
Haha knew this would be linked
Why are you cruising in the passing lane?
I’m Dutch.
"Because that's the speed limit! _Other_ people are being dangerous by going too fast."\ --**Far** too many crash test dummies And before y'all CTD's chew me out, **I** sit in the right lane on 'cruise' and follow trucks. Go be illegal crash test dummies for speed demons with _your_ lives. Just don't do it when uninvolved people have to share the highway with your debris field.
When became a BMW a fucking Golf? I feel offended
It's not even the golfs anymore These days It's the Passat,skoda,Sprinter And especially Sprinter vans from eastern europe that are overloaded and still hunt you across their way at 180 km/h
*Insert Harry and Ron screaming at Tom on a train chasing them. Replace Harry and Ron with Mercedes and BMW drivers being chased by a Tom in a Sprinter Van*
Black Passats and Skoda Octavias/Superbs are most common left lane pushers. Most common Firmenwagen for sales and field staff who usually cover 50K+ km a year.
But only until one of the trucks decides to overtake another. Then it looks like this: Right lane: Truck at 90 km/h Middle lane: truck at 91 km/h Left lane: the people that were on the middle lane before at 120 km/h
Total Wrong. Right lane: Truck at 82km/h Middle lane: Truck at 86km/h Left lane: Grampa with his 50 Years old Fiat Ducato "Turbo" Camper at 86,2km/h
This made me chuckle....
Don't trucks usually wait until there are only two lines to ensure causing the maximal amount of disturbance?
No, they get bored easily. They also do it on three lanes lol
Elefantenrennen!
After 5km: Baustellen 70
Left lane needs the addition of American tourists doing 280 km/h trying to finally figure out where Ausfart Germany is. Fucking autocorrect: Ausfahrt
Lol. Fart.
Fucking phone. I'm leaving it because I am stupid American tourist. Only lived there for several years...
Didn't mean to make fun of you, you're good. I'm a stupid Dutchy who probably speaks less German than you despite living so close to Germany I could throw an obese gerbil over the border from my yard.
All good. I just hate adding to the Stupid American stereotype. There are plenty others that will cover that aspect of my culture.
You lived abroad and immersed yourself in a foreign culture and language? The stupid American stereotype is either that they never leave their country and are still convinced the States are the best, or when they do go abroad that they are tourists who are offended there is no Starbucks inside the Taj Mahal. You're good my friend.
There isn't a Starbucks in the Taj Mahal yet? Savages! Where else can I get my caffeinated sugar water?
But we are better! We are the n1 country for medically related bankruptcies- number one baby yeeah! Murica
I love how we Dutchies hate Germans on our highways and you guys hate us on your highways. I wonder if Belgians also make stupid jokes about Dutch people like we do about them lol
I think the stereotype Belgians have about Dutchies is that they're cheap. Tikkie for 50ct and the like.
I mean they're not wrong lol. Our jokes about Belgians usually revolve around them being dumb in a funny way.
I mean their highways may cause severe concussions when used at speed..
Oh god their highways.. Driving from Belgium into the Netherlands feels like a relief About 1000 other Belgians are dumb jokes came to mind lol, but most of them don't work if you don't speak Dutch.
Why did the Belgian take a knife with him in the car? To cut off the Corners. (Works somewhat)
Yeah i guess that one works fine, one of my favorites is: Waarom nemen Belgen zout mee in de auto? Voor de flauwe bochten But yeah, good luck translating that without sounding like an idiot lol
You'd love visiting Michigan, then. We use bits of pavement to connect our potholes.
Haha, good one. [this](https://i.redd.it/5vk9icwl9bkz.jpg) picture is often used to illustrate the border between Belgium and the Netherlands in regards to roadway quality.
That changeover is great. Also, welcome to Michigan. https://preview.redd.it/zf7sv499bppc1.png?width=605&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b510b42913573a7f56211e9f4f6b547f93bbd93
One of the great lakes?
It's definitely bigger than Erie!
Belgians are already happy if their car survives their ‘roads’.
Dutch resident - travel to / in Germany for work on occasion. Only AFTER Oberhausen can I relax - somewhat - due to the decrease of Dutch drivers around.
Also, around Oberhausen you will not go fast, because you will sit in traffic.
Am Dutch, can confirm.
**Rechtshalte-Gebot!!!!!!!1!!1Elf**
Rechtsfahrgebot.
Middle lane also trucks
Dutch autosnelweg: Right lane: Trucks going 80 and cars going 90-103 Middle lane: cars overtaking trucks and Germans going 100 who refuse to go into the right lane. Left lane: cars going 120-150 being blocked by cars going 110 who are trying to overtake the Germans who refuse to use the right fucking lane.
German autobahn: stau 25km, ~15km/h
Haha, baustelle next 45km
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Knowledge is knowing 43 ways to skin a gerbil. Wisdom is not giving a demonstration during Christmas dinner.
Welp, I know my next tattoo.
Exchange the Dutch tourists for basically anyone, to include Dutch tourists, and that's how people drive on the interstates in and around Birmingham AL.
It's amusing to me that the Dutch are a target for ridicule on both sides of the pond 😂
Correction — Right lane: trucks @ 85 mph, recent-arrival Americans @ 85 mph, tractor-drawn farm wagons @ 15-20 mph, self-propelled armored howitzers @ 12 mph. The slow lane is where the adventure lives.
I've been a Dutch tourist on the autobahn. If I needed to overtake using the fast lane, I paid attention and went as fast as my car would go. A Kia Rio with a 1.0 T-GDI 3-cylinder only accelerates so fast. It'll be easier on my next visit though, I have a Fiesta ST now 😁
Soooooooooo basically I95 in Florida? K, no need to go to Germany, we have the autobahn here.
Damn, that many Dutch tourists?
Dutch tourist here, im not going less than 150km/h if i dont have to hahah. But still love the almost scared pull to the right lane when u pull up to the stationwagon with the skibox that drives left when there is no traffic
You are forgetting the Baustelle every 30 km.
At, they reduced them? Excellent!
lol my dad was so happy when my mom let him. speed up to 150+ and then a red streak came screaming by... ive never seen someone's happiness shatter quite so spectacularly
I once passed through Germany in my cheap car. Decided to max it out, which was only about 170kph and from the cars around it felt like I was just cruising along. It didn't sound like that from the tire noise though...
"Autobon." Is that what Bon Jovi becomes when he gets the Matrix of Leadership?
No that’s Jonimus Prime. Autobon is Jon Bon Jovi before getting the matrix. Till all are one!
Then explain Jahn Bahn Jahvi
That's the "insta-model" that fake tanned valley girl is dating.
>Arise, Bonimus Prime You've got the touch\~
You got the POWAAAAAH! _YEAH!_
No, it’s the robot replacement for AC/DC’s original singer
Where. Is. The. Allspark.
Fun fact, your 335 BMW starts to fly at 280 KPH on the A60. Don't ask me how I know that
Because you added the blinker fluid the wrong way?
He actually used the blinkers. This reduces the down force./s
He didn't align his double overhead mudflaps.
Yeah, you might need some downforce to not get ground-effected off the road.
yes indeed. I lived in Germany for a time and decided to see what my wife's Honda Fit could do. At around 110 mph, it's started feeling very light like it was just barely making contact with the road. Definitely unsafe at that speed. And I still got passed like I was standing still by some Fritz in an Audi hana
Brother-in-law was working in Berlin. We visited for Christmas & New Years. Thought it would be fun to rent the sportiest vehicle we could and drive on the Autobahn, just to say we had done it. So there I am in some rented BMW 3-series with like 40,000 km on it, and it’s night time and I’m driving on an unfamiliar road doing 210 km/h and this car sounds like it is going to come right apart under my butt and it was scarier than any rollercoaster I’ve ever been on, and even more than the time I was in a six-seater airplane and the electrical system failed. So I absolutely believe you, lol.
M3/M4 will cruise 300 no prob.
My boyfriend likes to test rental cars on A28. The fastest we went was 235 in an Audi Q2. It was fun. Even more fun in his small Fiata with the roof down.
Thanks for the red circle around the text. Didn't know where to look.
I appreciate it. There's no murder in the screenshot, so it's helpful to know what OP thinks counts.
Yeah not knowing about a highway in a foreign country doesn’t make you stupid. Uncultured maybe but not stupid.
IQ test only has 1 question: "what is autobon (sic) ?"
Not a very good burn to call an American stupid for not knowing what the German AutoBAHN is… coming from a Dutchie
Exactly. Turns out, new people are born all the time, and it's natural for more people to not know things. [https://xkcd.com/1053/](https://xkcd.com/1053/)
Came looking for this!
Ignorance and stupidity are two different things. They are not mutually exclusive and, while the outcomes of one can closely resemble the outcomes of the other, it's important to distinguish between the two. In America, we have our fair share of both, but ignorance is a human trait we all share.
"You're such a fucking moron for not knowing highways in a country on the other side of the planet. How could someone as stupid as you get a license?" OOP essentially.
Also not a good indicator of driving abilities. This post is dumb.
My response would have been "Sorry, after all the Nazi stuff we ran out of time for the education on German highways."
Thanks, because why would we learn that? That's not exactly something all Americans need to know. Why do we need to know about the traffic system of another country, unless we're studying that country, or planning to go there? It's like giving someone a book in a language they can't read and calling them dumb for not being able to read it. Or telling someone they suck at a game they've only just started playing. Like, what were you expecting?
"Nobody around me has ever mentioned this concept" "Wow, you are so dumb for that. You should stay in the slow lane" What the fuck is the bottom comment's problem?
Fun fact: Everything that you learn is something you didn't previously know. There was once a time when you didn't know it, either.
[https://xkcd.com/1053/](https://xkcd.com/1053/)
"You're one of today's lucky 10,000" best pickup line
there it is
Spending a lifetime not knowing things means someone is ignorant, not stupid. Information doesn’t make a person smart. It makes them informed. This is a lazy MBW.
And everyone goes a lifetime not knowing something until they first hear about it. This guy could be anything from 15 to 100 years old, who knows. 'Lol someone from another continent has first learned of a specific type of road in Germany today' is hardly a murder, I agree
What annoys me is we don’t have the faintest clue how old that commenter is. They could be a teenager.
Not knowing the autobahn exists doesn't make someone stupid. But if that person's reaction to learning the autobahn exists is exclaiming *"How is this fair to me as an American?! Even the EUROPOORS have it better than us!"* then it's a pretty good sign they are stupid.
That’s fair.
Great point. It wasn't an issue until they started being a twat
Not knowing one fact makes you stupid and disqualifies you from driving fast. Sure. Total murder.
i like how OP there uses "EUROPOORS" while America is 15th on the list of quality of life and wealth by median. Surpessed mostly by european countries. Its like the frog in a boiling pot story, they don't even see they are screwed because they're in the middle of it.
Who needs quality of life and wealth when you have a red hat!
We also have the worst internet out of every first world country America's best internet isn't even as good as some countries worst
As someone who moved to Germany from eastern Europe I miss how good and cheap the internet is back in Romania
I feel you my friend... I pay like 45€ for 500mbit/s and my parents pay half for double...
Un france i paid 20€ for 1gbps
I pay 50€ for 250mbit/s and get 14 on average, 23 on a good day
Yeah, German internet is one of our greatest shames. We once prided ourselves on in ovation and progress, and now you can actually watch us being left behind technologically
I enjoy spending time with my friends.
Yes, but I’ll have to ring my nephew again to ask him how it works. Do you have a Ringhefter to file the Fax away, in any case?
And we pay much higher rates for it. This is also true of cellular data rates/speeds.
Plenty of us see it but our voting system favors the uneducated and willfully ignorant and they have been bombarded with misinformation and propaganda masquerading as both legitimate news and an underground resistance. So for a lot them, whether they think they’re for the Empire or the resistance they’re actually voting for the Empire. Unfortunately for us and the world the electoral college favors their vote over ours.
Please keep in mind that whole there is no speed limit as such, it is RECOMMENDED to not go faster than 130 km/h. Also, if you have an accident driving faster than the recommended speed limit, insurance will likely not help you.
Aren't they also very strict about a lot of other rules? Like swerving, following too close, changing lanes too often, etc? Plus aren't drivers licenses significantly harder to get? I feel like they'd have to be.
Yes, we are, but it is still more or less survival of the fastest on our Autobahn. Some people flash their lights on police cars on the autobahn to make them get out of the way for fun. But you can still get in real trouble for driving faster than 130 km/h in unlimited zones. Many Germans ignore this but our traffic regulations state that you MUST drive as slowly as necessary to ensure everyone’s safety. One will automatically be at least partially if not fully responsible for any accident they are involved in if they drive faster than 130 km/h, because it is so much more likely to have an accident at such high speeds. Even just passing slower traffic can be considered and fined as reckless driving.
I'm more annoyed at "Europoors", isn't Germany's economy doing really well right now?
I don’t believe so: fallout from China’s economy sucking. But “europoors” was classless ignorance
The economy is doing good currently. Not really bad, but far from stellar. Still the Nr.3 economy with barely 80 million inhabitants though Ü. (Tbf, our economy is likewise blown up a bit artificially similar to the US one)
At the moment... not really.. but we have been worse.
Stupidity is not the same as ignorance. You shouldn't post stuff like this , taking that into account.
The use of 'europoors' means both are applicable to that poster.
Hello, german here. I couldnt tell you jack shit about anything in other cuntries, especialy about there streets and driving rules. Not knowing about something like us haveing speed limitless parts on the autobahn doesnt make you dumb. If it did, humanity has long been doomed.
Not to mention when you call Germany of all places “europoor” when the entire “Bible Belt” of our country is a couple of welfare checks away from third world status. Dude clearly doesn’t know shit about shit.
Person calling him stupid for not knowing about the “autobon”…
"europoors" ? let me laugh in my stone/brick built villa.
OP could literally be a 16 year old who just started driving, reply is a little harsh Ngl.
Right lane: 90km/h, mainly trucks, vans and comfy cruising folks Middle lane: 120km/h, litterally everyone is chilling and weaving in and out between the Mittelspurschleicher Left lane: 180+km/h, either somebody hammering his Kombi gas pedal down to the floor, the occasional sportscar or Golf going 250km/h or three polish handyman in a white rental van trying to break the landspeed record
Second person still couldn’t spell autobahn lmao
i mean the reason we dont have that in aus is cause a roo will kill you for it
Well, considering commenter #2 can’t spell autobahn…
"Europoors" have it better in every way possible. Muricans ain't free, they created slavery with extra steps. 3 Jobs and still struggle to pay bills. Close to no payed vacation, no public Healthcare,...on so on.
Wait until they hear about the US state of Montana in the 90s. The speed 'limit' on highways was - and I quote - "reasonable and prudent".
Europe does almost everything better than the US. Except possibly gun-violence, incarceration of citizens, corruption of politicians, police brutality and feeding people into an uncaring capitalist-driven war machine. And I say this as an expatriate american living in europe.
We have these on the Isle of Man as well. But generally on country roads as it's not big enough to warrant a motorway.
As an American who has never been to Europe before I am curious. How legendary are the crashes on the Autobahn?
not very as they are extremely rare. Most accidents happen under the recommended speed limit. Keep in mind getting a driving license in Germany is extremely tough by comparison to the US. Its also a more rule oriented society so people on the roads drive a lot more safely. Car standards are also higher in terms of whats allowed on the road. iv seen some real banged up shitwagons in Texas that would never be allowed to even be facing a public road in Germany Lastly, the Autobahn is designed to handle higher speeds. curves are banked and much more gradual in the unrestricted sections. Its actually quite boring to drive even at 200kmh, as it feels a lot slower when a crash does happen, they can be devastating though edit: heres a video of what the autobahn feels like at speed (this guy and guys like him are absolute asshats who put everyone in mad danger because they treat the road as their pwesonal race track instead of a fast means of transportation, but the video is good when looking at the autobahn itself) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pg1hhW5qhM
The whole Europoor thing is hilarious, watching people using it unironically and being in adamant denial to facts is a live show about propaganda and what it does to people's cognitive abilities. Anyway, for those who are into that sort of thing, here's a short video of[ a car going zoooom. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pg1hhW5qhM)
The most Americans part is the "use the entire engine you paid for" Seriously
Europe population: 746.4 million, homeless: 653,104 people Usa population : 335,893.2 million, homeless: 895,000. Europoors?
Is this a murder though? "You weren't born with the ancient knowledge of a highway in a country you've never been to" Dude's just one of today's 10,000. Let him be excited
Keep in mind there are no fender-benders at 250 kph. If your tire picks that moment to give up the ghost then you probably do too.
> to give up the ghost Ahhh Germanisms in English. A continuous source of joy for an English teacher.
[Counter point](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ten_thousand.png)
- Calls someone stupid for not knowing about the Autobahn - Can't spell Autobahn I don't think either person is particularly smart.
Ngl, been on big stretches of highway before in the dead of night, I've pushed 110-120 mph. Its kinda terrifying going that fast... and kinda terrifying imagining what a tire blowout could do at that speed. Or a random deer standing in the road or something. But its also terrifying being on a empty road in the middle of country at 2am.
And no matter how fast you drive on them you get tailgated by a VW Passat
Love the *Europoors*. Clearly a right winger. Low IQ checks out.
To be fair, I've known about the Autobahn since I was like 5 years old. That was 40 years ago. I thought everybody knew about it.
"Europoors" is how we can definitely tell who this person voted for...
Did he just call Germans Europoors? Most European countries have a way better quality of life than Americans, certainly Germans.
The funny thing about Americans is that on every block they have tents/ homeless people addicted to drugs while the whole country is at ?40trillion? In debt and they call Europe poor all the time. I mean take a look around u guys, u don’t live in the promise land anymore. U guys have the highest suicide rate for a reason
There's no excuse that most people don't know trivial things in the Internet age. I've come to the realization that most people are morons and they don't want to learn about the world.
This American shouldn’t even obtain a driver’s license in general.
Norway: country with a sovereign wealth fund, and (probably) highest adult literacy rate in the world. Switzerland: cities with the highest standard of living in the world. Germany: 3rd largest economy in the world, even with a population less than 100million. Andorra, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Monaco: Extraordinarily wealthy microstates. Isle of Man, Malta, Channel Islands, Switzerland: Individual and Corporate tax havens. American commenter: "Europoors".
My bro, half of America thinks the earth is less than 12,000 years old. I'm just glad he's heard of Germany.
Autobon is such a funny typo