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Originally Posted by Nathan
Sorry to break it to you, but deaths on german highways is not less than on us ones because of no speed limit (btw, over 50% of German autobahn has limits of under 120kph). But rather because Germans actually follow driving laws. If you would try no speed limit in all of the us accidents would rise, not fall! Idiots would pass on the right driving 100mph. That itself would cause a huge rise in accidents.
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Hey Fabian... It's not about promoting disorder. Rather the opposite. Right now there is complete disorder on the road. It's complete anarchy. Police are only concerned with speed, not safety. Translation, they want money.
They don't care about vehicle capabilities.
They don't care about lane courtesy.
What I'm saying is there needs to be strict, swift, and aggressive enforcement of laws which promote safety. Speed enforcement isn't one of them, as proven by death per million statistics in Germany. Physics don't work differently on that side of the pond.
We need to educate drivers on the performance capabilities of their vehicles so they can understand courtesy, and respect courtesy, and practice courtesy. The reason German drivers are so well mannered is because of the education they receive prior to obtaining a license. They go through a thorough driving education program that drivers in the US never receive. Right now all you need to do is thumb through a driver's handbook, and answer a bunch of multiple choice questions.
When police use speed enforcement laws for their own financial gain, they effectively eliminate the respect people have for it.
The reason we have such chaos in the States is because we've got unionized police labor that really just does not give a rat's ass about safety. They care about making money, and that's where it ends.