Police driving habits

[willie]

What's your preferred scenario?

1 – Driving 70-mph safely even though it’s illegal
2 – Stopping those driving 70 to enforce the law even though it puts life at risk.

Item #1 doesn't consider the ever present tailgater and how about the jackass that always cuts in and out trying to get to the front of the line? These people are ALWAYS there and much more dangerous at 70 mph.

Item #2 is a gross exaggeration. I see this police operation at least once a week, especially on heavily traveled RT 895 out of Baltimore. The nearest thing to a problem is tailgaters.

Face the facts, most drivers do not have the attention span or the ability to react in time to drive 70mph.

 

[Kain99]

Distance between cars is a good point here. It’s not uncommon for a group of cars on the German Autobaun to be driving 100+ mph yet have only 10 feet of separation between each of them yet no accidents occur.

How is that possible? It’s possible because German drivers not only know that other folks on the Autobaun know how to drive safely at 100+, but they also know that cops won’t be jumping out in the middle of the road “pulling them over” for driving 100+

Some people are disappointed the first time they drive on the Autobahn. They come with visions of a twenty-lane superhighway where cars are barely a blur as they whiz by. In reality, the Autobahn looks like a typical freeway, and despite rumors to the contrary, not everyone is hurtling along at the speed of sound. The stories of speed anarchy are only half correct-- many sections of Autobahn do in fact have speed limits.

 

[itsbob]

Guess what? you are wrong.
there is a listed max speed for the autobahn, 130 KPH. or in Americaspeak about 81 mph. there are sections of the autobahn that have speed limits as low as 37 mph.

[font=Arial, sans-serif]Speed limits

[/font][font=Arial, sans-serif] [/font] [font=Arial, sans-serif][font=Arial, sans-serif]Despite the widespread belief of complete freedom from speed limits (and a lobbying effort that has the same influence and deep pockets as the American gun lobby), some speed regulations can be found on the Autobahns. Many sections do indeed have posted limits ranging from 80 to 120 km/h (50-75 mph), particularly those with dangerous curves, in urban areas, near major interchanges, or with unusually constant heavy traffic. In construction zones, the limit may be as low as 60 km/h (37 mph). Also, some sections now feature nighttime and wet-weather speed restrictions, and trucks are always regulated (see table below). Still, about half the Autobahn system has no speed limit, but there is always an advisory limit of 130 km/h (81 mph). This recommendation is generally seen for what it is-- an attempt by the government to cover itself without having to upset millions of Porsche and BMW owners (AKA voters.) However, if you exceed the advisory limit and are involved in an accident, you could be responsible for some of the damage costs even if you are not at fault[/font][/font]

Been there and done that. and the tickey you get is a failure to maintain control... The SUGGESTED speed limit is 120Kph on almost all of the autobahns, and you will not get stopped or ticketed if you are caught doing three times the limit.

FEW accidents on the autobahn, and most are caused by American drivers in the fog. Germans don't slow down for most anything and especially NOT fog. Americans, as soon as the littlest bit of fog hits, they hit the brakes, then they get a German doing 180K up the azz.. They even teach Americans that are stationed there NOT to slow down in the fog, but they do, and the ending is always the same.

Most of the remaining accidents on the autobahn aren't really ON the autobahn but on the exit ramps.. after you've been driving at 120+ MPH for an hour or so.. you slow WAAAAAY down for the exit ramp speed of 60K or 35 MPH.. or at least you THINK you're going that slow, but in reality you hit the exit ramp at 60 - 70 MPH.. relatively a snails pace after 100 - 140 MPH, but too fast for the exit ramps.. and off the road you go..

 

[CrashTest]

Are you in Germany right now?

Here are my origial questions. Answer either if you want. Don't do like some
of the others and create your own answer to a question I'm not asking.

What's your preferred scenario?

1 – Driving 70-mph safely even though it’s illegal
2 – Stopping those driving 70 to enforce the law even though it puts life at risk.

 

[itsbob]

Some people are disappointed the first time they drive on the Autobahn. They come with visions of a twenty-lane superhighway where cars are barely a blur as they whiz by. In reality, the Autobahn looks like a typical freeway, and despite rumors to the contrary, not everyone is hurtling along at the speed of sound. The stories of speed anarchy are only half correct-- many sections of Autobahn do in fact have speed limits.

The autobahn (depending on which one we are talking about) was EVERYTHING I expected and wanted it to be.. I had a little Omni GLH when I was over there, with no catlytic converter.. used to spit flames out of the back. Went to Frankfurt to pick up my ex's grandma.. got on the A-bahn.. got up to speed and didn't think anything of it, until I looked over and her knuckes were turning white on the dashboard.. I got up to speed.. and was flowing with the traffic through Frankfurt at 110MPH..

 

[Kain99]

It's a true myth that the autobahn is accident free.... Check out the statistics, it's not good! In fact the autobahn is so infamous for fatalities youtube features the highway on it's website. Lot's of grisly stuf for ya to feast your eyes on. http://www.youtube.com/results?search=Unfall

 

[mainman]

It's a true myth that the autobahn is accident free.... Check out the statistics, it's not good! In fact the autobahn is so infamous for fatalities youtube features the highway on it's website. Lot's of grisly stuf for ya to feast your eyes on. http://www.youtube.com/results?search=Unfall

He doesn't want to be bothered with facts, will you just answer his question?

 

[itsbob]

Distance between cars is a good point here. It’s not uncommon for a group of cars on the German Autobaun to be driving 100+ mph yet have only 10 feet of separation between each of them yet no accidents occur.

How is that possible? It’s possible because German drivers not only know that other folks on the Autobaun know how to drive safely at 100+, but they also know that cops won’t be jumping out in the middle of the road “pulling them over” for driving 100+

I never witnessed that..

 

[Kain99]

Here are my origial questions. Answer either if you want. Don't do like some
of the others and create your own answer to a question I'm not asking.

What's your preferred scenario?

1 – Driving 70-mph safely even though it’s illegal
2 – Stopping those driving 70 to enforce the law even though it puts life at risk.

Traffic stops don't put lives at risk... I'm really not sure where your head is.

 

[mainman]

What the hell are you smoking?

You didn't notice what they were growing on the other side of the garage?

 

[Lilypad]

ran this thread off in the ditch-what the pluck does all this have to do w/a cop in Leonardtown? Hey Lugnuttttttttttttttttttttttt

 

[CrashTest]

This whole thing began to sway from my original post.

My original post is that even if folks are doing XXXmph, you don’t throw a cop out in the middle of Rt-4 in front of a pack of 40 cars doing XXXmph. It doesn’t matter if they’re speeding or not. Hunan lives can and will be lost by trying to slow down a huge pack of cars like that.

 

[willie]

Distance between cars is a good point here. It’s not uncommon for a group of cars on the German Autobaun to be driving 100+ mph yet have only 10 feet of separation between each of them yet no accidents occur.

How is that possible? It’s possible because German drivers not only know that other folks on the Autobaun know how to drive safely at 100+, but they also know that cops won’t be jumping out in the middle of the road “pulling them over” for driving 100+

10' separation at 100+ mph? That's bullshit and you know it. Tall tales like that make the rest of your posts worthless.

 

[Otter]

10' separation at 100+ mph? That's bullshit and you know it. Tall tales like that make the rest of your posts worthless.

Going back a few years, I was taught a car length for every 10mph.

 

[Lilypad]

Otter-

not really-

 

[Kain99]

This whole thing began to sway from my original post.

My original post is that even if folks are doing XXXmph, you don’t throw a cop out in the middle of Rt-4 in front of a pack of 40 cars doing XXXmph. It doesn’t matter if they’re speeding or not. Hunan lives can and will be lost by trying to slow down a huge pack of cars like that.

I think it's hilarious that you blame the cops for traffic fatalities. What a Maroon!

 

[CrashTest]

I have a huge problem with the Hunans, don't you?

I'm not sure what a "Hunans" is

 

[willie]

It's a true myth that the autobahn is accident free.... Check out the statistics, it's not good! In fact the autobahn is so infamous for fatalities youtube features the highway on it's website. Lot's of grisly stuf for ya to feast your eyes on. http://www.youtube.com/results?search=Unfall

It's been a while since I have been on the autobahn and when I hear these story's about how safe it is, it must have changed a ton. Those people can show you how to have a real accident.

 

[Kain99]

And you are a Crashtestdummy yes?

 

[Otter]

I think it's hilarious that you blame the cops for traffic fatalities. What a Maroon!

Frankly, missy kain, he does have a point. I've seen radar set up on the hills of rte 4 during rush hour..and safety would be much better served if they ran a running roadblock as opposed to radar set up at the bottom of hills and people cresting the previous hill running into a sea of brake lights. The population of Calvert has increased tremendously, instead of cars doing 70 with light traffic, its now 70 with heavy traffic..It is what it is, people are always going to be in a hurry.