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Old 08-24-2011, 06:24 AM  
kristin
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Originally Posted by Nathan View Post
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.
I watched a documentary about the autobahn and German drivers... Very interesting. Unlike Americans, they don't talk on their cell phone while fiddling with the radio in between sips of Starbucks. They take driving seriously and avoid distractions to follow the laws.
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