1. If you've never really driven much at 160 kph (99 mph).....you might want to restrict yourself for a while.
2. Needing a toilet break along the autobahn? Stick with the autobahn gas stations....avoiding the park-type with the stand-alone toilet facility. The days of the 1980s when the park-type rest stops had sanitary toilets are lone-gone.
3. If there is one single 'hint' on German weather of bad conditions by 3 PM....exercise judgement and restrict yourself to home by 2 PM.
4. Staus come in three patterns: moving slow at 8 kph, stop-and-go traffic for 10 kilometers (taking 30 minutes), and dead-horse speed (meaning you get stopped for a minimum of 30 minutes). My advice in the 2nd and 3rd case....get off the autobahn and find a alternate route, or retardant to chill out.
5. In severe winter weather....carry an appropriate jacket in the car....expecting the worst possible scenario.
6. For any trip longer than five hours....plan on a massive hour-long rest stop.
7. Saturday in June, July and August....between 9 AM and 3 PM....is the worst possible time to be on the autobahn because of heavy traffic.
8. If you extensively use GPS for everything....be mindful that some autobahns (handful) in Germany will just plain 'end' in the midst of some massive urban zone, and leave you lost trying to exit the city on the other end.
9. The best places along the autobahn structure to eat lunch or dinner....are 'resthof' operations. These can be found via google and are typically 2 km off the autobahn. For the price and quality, it can't be beat. The other places....the gas-station operation restaurants on the autobahn....mostly a rip-off and poor quality food.
10. In construction zones.....always stay in the far-right lane....to avoid stress.
11. Blitz cameras do get placed on certain autobahns...particularly in Bavaria.
12. In extreme heat, German autobahn pavement can 'pop-off'.....meaning you might control your speed on hot July afternoons (at 40 C).
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