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> Basically, uh, yeah. "Silverstone" is a tiny little village. (Apparently
> some of the locals complain about their whole village being basically shut
> down for a few days a year by the race!) The race track is in the middle
> of nowhere, and there's no remotely large roads anywhere damn near it.
> PERFECT for a large-scale international event. :-D
Hehe, perfect to build a new motorway from it to an existing one then :-D
> Is it true that none of the roads in Germany have a speed limit? Or is
> that just an urban myth?
I'd say that around here once you get away from the city and any big
junctions, 75% of the *motorwarys* have no speed limits at all. All other
roads have limits the same as UK, ie about 60mph out of built up areas and
30mph in towns and villages.
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scott wrote:
>> Is it true that none of the roads in Germany have a speed limit? Or is
>> that just an urban myth?
>
> I'd say that around here once you get away from the city and any big
> junctions, 75% of the *motorwarys* have no speed limits at all.
Ah - so *that's* why German cars are always so fast. ;-)
> All
> other roads have limits the same as UK, ie about 60mph out of built up
> areas and 30mph in towns and villages.
Interesting. In Switzerland at least, the limits are all in km rather
than miles...
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>>> Is it true that none of the roads in Germany have a speed limit? Or is
>>> that just an urban myth?
>>
>> I'd say that around here once you get away from the city and any big
>> junctions, 75% of the *motorwarys* have no speed limits at all.
>
> Ah - so *that's* why German cars are always so fast. ;-)
Actually all the major German manufacturers agreed voluntarily to limit
their cars to 150mph. Although you very rarely see anyone going that fast,
around 100mph is pretty common, I guess 120 or 130 you see occasionally on a
journey, but 150+ is not common at all. I heard a story of someone *seeing*
a Ferrari at "almost 200mph"...
The hardest part that I'm still not used to, is that when you see a police
car, and you're doing 110mph, you don't have to slow down! *That* takes a
lot of getting used to.
>> All other roads have limits the same as UK, ie about 60mph out of built
>> up areas and 30mph in towns and villages.
>
> Interesting. In Switzerland at least, the limits are all in km rather than
> miles...
Well I converted them to mph for your benefit, they're actually 100 km/hr
and 50 km/hr. All countries around here use km, I've never seen miles used
anywhere apart from UK and USA. In fact my car doesn't even have mph on it,
which makes it fun to drive in the UK ;-)
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:22:14 +0000, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
>Stephen wrote:
>
>> I'm not inviting anyone to my home or even giving away my address. And as you
>> said London is a large place. Anyway you can get a good idea of what people are
>> like by reading their postings over a period of time.
>
>Well, true.
>
>I think if me and Warp ever met IRL, one of us might not survive. And I
>have a pretty good idea which one...
>
I think that you do him an injustice :)
>> I would even have met BdeW :)
>
>OK, you just crossed the scary line... o_O
Do I look like your shadow? :-)
Regards
Stephen
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Am Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:46:29 +0000 schrieb Invisible:
>> All
>> other roads have limits the same as UK, ie about 60mph out of built up
>> areas and 30mph in towns and villages.
>
> Interesting. In Switzerland at least, the limits are all in km rather
> than miles...
Of course we use the metric system in Germany, so FWIW it's 50km/h inside
towns, villages..., 100km/h outside towns except motorways, and 130km/h
as a guidance on the motorways, unless stated otherwise. The latter
means, if you go faster than 130km/h on the motorway (Should I say
autobahn? Everybody understands :P) and you crash, you'll get full credit
for the crash.
Where I live, the eastern part of Germany, the far greater part of AB's
are limited to 130km/h. Except the big ones connecting East and Eest
Europe (A2, A4).
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:01:29 +0100, "scott" <sco### [at] laptopcom> wrote:
> I heard a story of someone *seeing*
>a Ferrari at "almost 200mph"...
Red shifted?
Regards
Stephen
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>> I think if me and Warp ever met IRL, one of us might not survive. And I
>> have a pretty good idea which one...
>
> I think that you do him an injustice :)
Have you *seen* the guy?? Half of his head is made of metal... ._.
>>> I would even have met BdeW :)
>> OK, you just crossed the scary line... o_O
>
> Do I look like your shadow? :-)
[...]
It's not the fact that he's following you,
It's that he's not trying to hide it, that's what's bothering you... o_O
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scott wrote:
> Actually all the major German manufacturers agreed voluntarily to limit
> their cars to 150mph. Although you very rarely see anyone going that
> fast, around 100mph is pretty common, I guess 120 or 130 you see
> occasionally on a journey, but 150+ is not common at all. I heard a
> story of someone *seeing* a Ferrari at "almost 200mph"...
I was in Germany for a meeting 3 or 4 years ago, and one of the Germans
(Dutch actually, but runs a lab in Germany) told us about a visitor he
once had from the USA. Apparently the guy was planning on renting a car
after his plane landed, but changed his mind when he noticed, during
landing, that the cars on the motorway parallel to the runway were
actually overtaking his plane...
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And lo on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:31:30 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did
spake, saying:
>>> Question: Why does everybody dislike MK so much? I think it's a really
>>> great place to live...
>> Because it's new and because it's been designed, which makes it
>> totally non-English :-P
>
> Riiiight... Well, I'd rather live in a place that had some *thought* put
> into it than some random thing that just *happened* by accident. :-P
Well I wouldn't know anything about living in some randomly designed town.
--
Phil Cook
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I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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And lo on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:41:53 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did
spake, saying:
> Every year, Milton Keynes holds a demonstration of how efficient the
> road system is.
<snip>
> Slowly they all congregate in the central shopping center car park. But
> when the show finishes, THEY ALL TRY TO LEAVE AT ONCE!
So as a celebration of the efficiency of the road system they demonstrate
how to break it?
--
Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
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