Last Sunday, I made a drive from Wiesbaden to Bad Durkheim. It's roughly 118 km, and 90-percent is autobahn, with 10-percent of that either high-urban areas (meaning a speed limit of 100 kph) or under renovation (meaning a speed limit of 70 to 80 kph).
My general speed?
Well....at various times with low traffic, I was cruising along at 160 kph (100 mph).
At some points, I did drift down to around 120 to 130 kph (around 80 mph).
Then at a couple of points, I just slowed down to 100 kph....mostly because of high density traffic.
All this chatter recently by the Green Party about a mandated speed limit of 130 kph or less on autobahns.....has very little science behind. No statistics or data to make any case.
How many Germans actually travel at 130 kph or more? Unknown. I personally doubt if you can prove that more than 10-percent of Germans are that aggressive on the speed limit
Can you even make a case that more than half of all Germans have gone over 130 kph a single time in their life? No.
So all this hype about the speed limit might be a very marginal topic? Unless you can establish data to prove the case.....that's really the problem with the entire discussion.
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