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daffydoug Eternal Order Look mom! I've got 14077 Posts |
The difficult must become easy, the easy beautiful and the beautiful magical.
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
Hm. Interesting site. Kind of reminds me of those films I had to watch back in my high school days. Of them were made in Ohio. Which always made me wonder about someone's sick sense of adding some money to the state budget: "Hey, I have an idea! We'll film a bunch of dead and burned up bodies in highway accidents and SELL them to driver's ed programs all over America!"
The most interesting thing is the statistics: can it really be true that the autobahn is SAFER than American highways? Very hard for me to believe. VERY hard. |
cfrye Special user Portland, Oregon, USA 940 Posts |
Cars for the German market are engineered to higher crash safety standards than those for sale in America. Also, the Autobahn has more gentle, sweeping turns and better crash barriers than most U.S. interstate highways.
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stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
Well, I just looked it up, and the statistics are correct. Somewhere around 5,000 people get killed in traffic accidents in Germany each year. According to the website Daffy just posted, the average seems to be around 42,000. American is just a little less than four times the size of Germany, but has eight times the number of traffic deaths. In other words, America's roads are twice as dangerous as Germany's.
This interests me because I am TERRIFIED by the autobahn. I've posted these links before, but most of you probably weren't interested (and still won't be, but nevertheless here they are): http://stoneunhinged.wordpress.com/2007/......utobahn/ http://stoneunhinged.wordpress.com/2007/......npart-2/ I once had the displeasure of riding in a car with some crazy guy who argued that American highways are less safe than the autobahn PRECISELY because of the speed limit. He argued that the monotony of driving at the same speed sucked away a driver's concentration. Then the sumbitch gave a demonstration of driving at high speed to make his point, and I looked over at the speedometer and it was 240KPH, which my calculator tells me is 150MPH. This, my friends, is a true story. I saw the speedometer and asked him to please slow down, that I understood his point but my nerves just couldn't take it. Anyway, for those who don't bother to read the links above, the point is not only that the autobahn has no speed limit, but that there is constant lane changing and tailgating. Constant. |
daffydoug Eternal Order Look mom! I've got 14077 Posts |
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On 2009-01-30 06:20, stoneunhinged wrote: Either that, or America's drivers are twice as BAD as Germany's. (or twice as drunk)
The difficult must become easy, the easy beautiful and the beautiful magical.
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Rupert Bair Inner circle ? 2179 Posts |
I was passenger in a porche going over 120mph on the autobahn a few years ago, good times.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Any fan's of David Cronenberg's movie Crash?
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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