Ana scared the bejeezus out of me.

[conuly]

Apparently there isn't any school today? I was not expecting that.

On the subject of school, only one more month-ish until we know where Eva goes next year!

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Comments

[ratcreature]

Yeah, no, here 130 km/h is considered slow, and actually unless traffic is congested you can expect that most normal "slower" cars that are not trucks to go 150-160km/h at least, and you are regularly overtaken then. If you go 150 on the left lane, maybe trying to overtake someone slower on the right, you risk that someone else driving 240+ comes up behind you honking expecting you to get out of the way (of course technically that dangerous bullying is illegal, but it happens all the time). So you have to react at 150 to get back into slower traffic before the faster traffic kills you.

When these articles say that there is no speed at which you won't be overtaken, it is absolutely true, at least for any regular car experience. I've been unfortunate enough to be a passenger in cars going over 200km/h (so about 125mph), 240 for brief periods even, in highway traffic and we were still overtaken often.

German car manufacturers build sport cars for normal road use that go up 330-345km/h (so over 200mph) in their specs in theory, and people absolutely buy these expecting to drive them that fast on regular roads, with highway traffic surrounding them. So basically you have to expect to have a crazy Porsche coming up to you at that speed at any time the traffic is flowing somewhat normally and not congested.

[workday_dreamer]

That's... very, very fast. Doesn't sound particularly pleasant if you're someone with slightly slow reflexes.