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by BFLpL0QNek 2645 days ago
"most people do not know how to handle a car above 80mph"

It's 2019, most modern cars will do 80mph comfortably and safely, good breaks, good handling, modern electronic driver aids that are appearing and advancing, on a clear motorway 80mph is completely safe.

If driving a luxury saloon 100+mph can feel like you are doing 70mph, note i'm not saying 100mph is a responsible thing but it's completely legal on stretches of the German Autobahn where i was happily cruising along at 120-140mph on my motorcycle to have a Mercedes come up behind me with a little old woman peering over the steering wheel then flying by making me look slow.

If the numbers are correct at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobahn the Autobahn has the least fatality rate on German roads.