[akmarinov]

Overall limiting cars to a maximum of 160 km/h seems like a good idea. Apart from some stretches of the Autobahn - there's not much reason cars should go that fast.

[TomK32]

Less reason for them to accelerate like they do. 0-100 km/h in 5 seconds will kill people in a city if you do it by accident, which already happens.

[perlgeek]

I live in a small street, and at the crossing to the next big street, it's very hard to see the traffic from one of the sides.

The only thing I can really do is creep forward until I get a glimpse into the traffic, and if it's clear, accelerate the hell out of it.

So, at least for the first, let's say 30 to 50km/h, I'm very glad of the high torque and acceleration of my hybrid card.

I'd be fine with a hard speed limit though. I'd be fine with limiting the Autobahn to 130km/h.

[PartiallyTyped]

Cars these days can accelerate to 100 in < 2 seconds. Imho acceleration should also be limited. There’s absolutely no reason for that in cities.

[TomK32]

some exotic cars do, but I was thinking of cars popular with young men who cause senseless accidents by treating cities roads as race tracks. A BMW 3-series is popular with them and is about 5 seconds 0-100.

[PartiallyTyped]

Tbh, I was thinking of SUVs and middle-aged men as they have access to high performing tanks — my father being one of them.

I had an old bmw 320d; it did about 9s; and I think that was too much.

[TomK32]

You are almost right with your thinking expect those SUV owners are often also dad and thus the sons have access to far too powerful cars.

[PartiallyTyped]

I’d argue that we should be limiting acceleration as well.

I see no reason why a 2 tonne car should accelerate to 100km in less than 5 seconds, but here we are.

[Detrytus]

Limiting acceleration could be dangerous: you need it when overtaking slower vehicles (not necessary cars, it can be a tractor in rural areas).

[TomK32]

5 seconds is still too quick in my eyes, the current VW Golf can do this, the Mark 1 took 9 seconds. Why would you need this as a default? If it's an option that you have to toggle and it comes with a visible sign and the data tracker kicking in, that'd be okay.

[constantcrying]

>Overall limiting cars to a maximum of 160 km/h seems like a good idea.

Ridiculous. People use cars for things besides going from A to B. In Germany significant parts of the streets are without speed limit and you can easily go 200km/h+.

[akmarinov]

Of the streets? No

Of the Autobahn? Yes. All of it? No