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It's probably time to shed light on the speed limit debate from another angle. At the level of reason, everything is said: the accident frequency would fall at a speed limit, the pollutant emissions also, the time savings is marginal in most cases and on most routes with unlimited speed. It bears no relation to the risks and side effects.
Surprisingly, the time gain but as justification by the advocates is hardly led into the field. Instead, the unrestricted highway is stylized as a symbol of freedom, Gasfuß-yesterday as Ulf Poschardt transfigure them to the last space of development of the personality. Whatever resonates in these praises on the low-level flight through German lands: the desire to make a profile as a phenomenal driver at speeds beyond 200 km / h.
This is almost cute, because: fast straight driving can really anyone.
"Fun is not a straight line" is the motto of motorsport. In addition to its generality, it is aimed primarily at a very popular in the US way to compete in potent motorized vehicles: the Drag Racing. Two vehicles accelerate in parallel over a distance of 400 meters, the so-called quarter mile. The acceleration of the sometimes thousands of horsepower dragster sometimes bursts the imagination. The demands on the drivers are manageable compared to other motor sports. Because it just goes straight, many motorsports enthusiasts from Europe smile at the drag racing.
Everyone can really drive straight ahead
All the more surprising is that people who consider a high final speed on the highway as a measure of their driving skills, are not smiled at much more often. Stepping into the oil sump and driving the car into the limiter is something every driver license newcomer can do. Differences to experienced pilots you notice at most when suddenly a compact car with a tempo of 120 pulls on the left lane at speed 300. In this scenario, even experienced drivers are usually powerless (which in turn speaks for a speed limit).
Yes, admitted: the first time to fly at speed 280 on the highway, is a feast for the senses. But who is not a tumber goal, it does not last long joy, the experience wears off. When dealing with cars, happiness is somewhere else: on the circuit. Here you can really make out who a good driver is.
Every car has a different character and needs to be treated differently if you want to get around the corners quickly. Only those who delicately handle the pedals and the steering wheel come through the turn without understeer or oversteer. Only who is able to get involved in the car, especially the chassis and its way of working, will really master it.
The highway - the playground for simple minds
The feast for the senses then waits in every corner: merge with the car, his pitching and tilting movements as if it feels his own body, approaching the grip of the tires until you can literally feel them like the nerve endings in the fingertips, in short : Balancing the car at the highest possible cornering speed so filigree that it does not fly off - that demands and delights the expert.
Who wants to know whether he masters this, needs no highway without speed limit. Who wants to check whether he is good for the automotive fine spirit, can do much better on the local kart track. Or he can win a tourist ticket for the Nordschleife and take a look through the Green Hell, which he really has on the box.
The simple spirits continue to shoot over the highway.