Autobahn in Germany: Are they getting a speed limit? 

Cars are a far bigger issue than private jets

@@JZTechEngineering jets use a ton more

​@@Festive_Angus There's a ton more cars. You can both have a speed limit and less private jets.

@@JZTechEngineeringhas nothing to do with jets but did u know that 1 container ship produces in 1 week as much CO2 than 1 Million cars in 1 year ?

@@JZTechEngineeringno there not simply put I need to use my car to get to work people using private jets to fly around isn’t essential they could get on a normal plane and do the same thing but don’t the general public will not sit and deal with people trying to punish and restrict their way of life while those with money can fly a jet and you won’t say anything because “my 1.2l Ford Fiesta is a bigger issue than a private jet” get a grip

just give people public toilets

​@@-i1007there are but its terrible

@@-i1007 dude. First go find a way where public toilets dont get destroyed, spray painted and ruined.

If it's urgent, you can break the speed limit in Germany due to Notstand

You are even allowed to speed to a certain degree when theres a speed limit if you have diarrhea 💀

ngl as a german i kinda doubt that 😭

​@@IbishuCovet might not be true but its kinda funny though

​​@@IbishuCovet i don't think that is has to be fiction. Driving to slow is also dangerous and if you're in a Ferrari you probably rather drive slowly than fast to not damage it. 😅

Could be true, because there's also an obligation not to drive dangerously slow.

Yes, he was reading on his phone at McDrive.

Ich denk mal du weißt das selber...

Yeah we also laugh about jokes about our own country

@@queetchee171damn germans don’t have a sense of humour do they

idk sausages or somthing

​@@ronal8824beer

American are car crazy too? Just in a different way.

Actually cars are not designed to kill or destroy but ok…

Machines can cause mass destruction, and death? Makes sense

​@@skw2102wow the point of his statement flew right over your head

They aren't, sure they have legitimate purpose beyond that but they go over 100mph (160km/h) and can weigh as much as 3 and a half tonnes, that's more than enough to be deadly and is more powerful than some small firearms. ​@@skw2102

Not only the transportation but the agriculture as well. Olives and olive oil uses 1/5 of the water and other resources needed for avocado plants. They are tropical and making them in a non-tropical place requires a LOT of water etc.

Yesssss, finally someone posted it out, that is the main reason why our earth is filled with greenhouse gases

CO2 in our atmosphere is currently at 3% up from 2% in the last 10 years plants start to die at less than 2% CO2 .

​@@thomasstratton2445where are you getting these numbers from?

why tf do westerners not eat local food

People, Never change😢

Unless flight plan includes to a Special triangle.........

I was hoping you were right, but private jets only account for about 3 million tons of CO2 per year. BUT If you also include wasteful short distance commercial flights, that would be about 640 million tons CO2 per year, which obviously is a little more.

Boooom! 😂👍

​@@lobbyhoe01don't cry, nobody will ever touch your billionaire overlords 😂

Yeah but lets be honest: people should not come to race theyr cool cars on the Autobahn. Its dangerous, unnessesary and not profitable.

@@ZetsubenSama fair

​@@ZetsubenSamaThe autobahn is pretty safe though

@@foxctocofxk8509 driving a car is not the safest Thing. 2022 there have been more then 2.000 related deaths in germany. That number is low becouse cars as a shole have become bigger and safer. Flying is still safer. Riding a train is still safer. Riding a Bike is still safer if enough Bicicle infrastructure is present.

@@ZetsubenSama I am 100% agree. There is no room for racers on the Autobahn.

Sad but true.

Nah bro, you should stop trying to socially engineer the population to become weak and dependent. Be quiet cars bring freedom.

Just avoid the Autobahn If you prefer to drive slower. The Bundesstraße reach everywhere

@@culnaurion Its not sad, just like America it's one of the things that lets it stand out more.

You shouldn't let them change either. Can we not have one place in the planet where you can drive fast? The climate activists are distracted.

You do realise its actually impossible to get over the speed of light?

​@@38yearoldhitchiker true! It is also impossible to reach the speed of light.. unless you have no mass of course.

​@@38yearoldhitchikerYou do realize it is possible that it's a joke?

@@38yearoldhitchiker*Unless you’re German*

That complaining guy is just my neighbor with his beat up VR6 big turbo golf mk1.

Allot of study’s are 9/10 doctors recommend this toothpaste

They literally do not consider that you drive faster so you’ll have shorter travel time in this studie.

@@justcat1791exactly! Any study from climate to pharmaceutical. They’re all rigged, well not all but you get the gist.

@@justcat1791 Doctors will recommend any toothpaste as long it has fluoride. It's kinda funny because nobody knows how exactly fluoride is supposed to prevent tooth decay. The theory that fluoride protects the teeth by creating a protecting layer around them proved to be false because the layer is way too thin to work. But what we do know is that Fluoride in high doses can have negative effects on literally the entire body.

Flouride is antibacterial ​@@user-qv5lr1sy9o

Allowing for more public transportation will mean taking up space that was previously used by private cars. Guess who doesn't like that?

Private jets? lmfao that's a horrible idea. What should be done is restricting emssion companies release in production

Heavy industrial facilities, slash and burn, and container ships are the biggest polluters.

The rich wouldn‘t like it, so it‘s not happening

​@@protoni6996 You dont have a say in this Airtraffic is regulated in the EU whilst Streets are a National stuff. You can set a national speed limit but not for another country.

They are already going after the corporations which is causing the deindustrialisation of Germany.

Those parties are paid by these corporations from SPD to CDU to AFD. Welcome to capitalist "democracy"

If the "activists" are able to force a speed limit on us imma glue myself to the streets like they do

They are not doing fine, they are reopening coal power plants, because they closed the nuclear ones... but cars are really not an issue

Ah yes Germany needs to be more green (they've opened up more coal plants and use the most carbon emissions in Europe)

@@ghastlyfellow5841 tf you talking about?? Germany has the most Green energy in europe. Solar + wind.

Bro modern cars Produce 90% less pollution than the cars from 1980 thats crazy

They don't use AC everywhere in the world except for america

​@@MiloGazal-cn7ygnope

@@MiloGazal-cn7yg I live in Finland, and here every modern car has AC and people use it

​@@lllluka he didnt ment the Ac in the car

@@saftigesentenfilet2310 Oh, the ones in homes. In Finland you do see ACs in homes, but mostly in upper middle class houses

Stau

Baustelle

Oh we get in huge trouble if caught speeding through those in the states

OMG FRRR

These yters portrait this way wrong its not taken that seriously

@@Kailo43 1. I mean, it's not any random YTer, it's the DW, they're supposed to know what they're talking about a little bit. 2. German police checks airports days before school vacations for families trying to take their kids out of school early.

@@givrally7634 There's a difference between a child needing a day off from school and a parent wanting to save on vacation money at the expense of their child's education.

@@aerospace_euI doubt it would make much difference and this is leaving your child out of school without motive

Exactly!!!

Most cars can't even get up to the top speed on the speedometer. The speedometer is just laid out so the most common highway driving speeds, like 100 km/hr through 120 km/hr, show up at the top of the dial. This ends up putting unrealistic speeds like 250 km/hr at the far end of the speedometer dial, where they exist as speeds the speedometer could measure in theory, but your car may not even have the capability of getting to that speed.

@@carultch yeah I heard about that, and I heard that some cars can reach the maximum speed when the engine is new (when you first buy the car)

@@carultchYeah cheap boring cars. My car goes past the speedometer

@@carultchAny car can go that fast if there’s a steep enough hill! 😂

Average Danish Citizen W

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Why so slow?

Beiseite mit dir, du Schnecke

lets not combine thet but understandeble😂

😂your highway police overtook me aggressively while i was adhearing to the speedlimit.

do u have source on that?

Well 120-130 km/h is supposed to be enforced as the normal speed limit here so I don't really get your point-

This has been the stupidest thing we ever agreed on. Accidents have been way higher now that everyone is just asleep behind the wheel. The amount of times I almost had an accident on the A2 because of a sleeper doing 90 in the fourth lane (while the rest is doing 130) is stupid.

Totally with you! The error in the math is, that yes 70% of the Autobahn doesn’t have a speedlimit but that’s like the regions where are few to new people! The highly populated areas where all the traffic and all the pollution takes place already has speedlimits! That 70% unregulated Autobahn has only something around 8-10% of the national traffic. It wouldn’t change anything.

We already tried letting Germany have a quirk, didn’t end well

@@StellaMyCatbetter this quirk than that quirk.

@@StellaMyCat that was more like the whole europes quirk. Well atleast until Germany did some funky stuff

Amerika

who even thought of those words 😧

Exakt

How is that your word for speed limit? 😂

Warum ist das Wort Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung so lang?

The actual freedom is, if you have the freedom to choose the way of transportation, because the alternatives are just as reliable and safe as driving a car.

@@DuconiFax

„I dont Need a car when i can take 3 Busses and 1 train an then walk for 15 mins”

@@Duconi *at least* as reliable and safe

@@alekmalek435 that's the problem of public transport management. It is possible to create a system where you could use one bus and walk for five minutes that would also cost less to maintain than roads dedicated to purely cars and trucks

Stfu😂 go get on you broke POs.

Public transport and trucks belong no where near the autobahn for several reasons

@@halcyon4485he means its the first step in reducing emissions from cars

@@halcyon4485 there's multiple lanes, you know...

@@sesamstraathooligan9587thing is, truck drivers in germany cant drive, multiple accidents causing death is because truck drivers didnt indicate properly, most notably a black Audi RS6 Avant C7, where a truck driver failed to indicate or check their mirrors causing the death of the 61yo driver

Unfortunately, it's hard to prove, since the last government consistently refused to have stricter corruption laws, but this minister is most likely (again, proving this is nearly impossible, so take this with a big grain of salt) on the payroll of various German car manufacturers

The only corruption that's ok(⁠•⁠‿⁠•⁠) ​@@chrix0568

​@@chrix0568i support big corps this time

He is horrible

@@Isabelle-hv6nycry us a river

Lmfaoo yes😭😭

It will hapen.

@@KoenigElessarno no it won’t they’ll have to take the guns from our cold dead hands

​@@KoenigElessarit will happen once you learn to properly write an english sentence

​@@KoenigElessarHow'd that work for drugs and alcohol?

@@KoenigElessarno, the 2nd amendment exists - and it would be impossible to actually enforce gun restrictions. unfortunately the only people who are affected by ‘gun restrictions’ (unconstitutional btw) are law abiding citizens.

They showed that in the video, about 70% has no speed limit.

Sadly. There was a time where you could go from Frankfurt to hamburg in three hours. In the night when everything was clear.

I live in the states an speed limits suck there 65 in perfect roads that are flat and I'm Cali they want the speed limit to be 60 who's coming up with that probably the person who drives 65 in the passing lane

There is a need gor a speed limit, nobody cares if you want to drive fast. It's putting people's life at risk, Autobahn is home to the worst car accidents to ever exist.

@@veryveryhonestpendufan6062 You are wrong. The death rate per billion kilometers driven is lower on Germany's autobahns (2.7 fatalities) than on the US Interstate highways (4.5 fatalities). Source: Autobahn-Infographic (German-way). Even some other countries in the EU with speedlimit included are not always safer than German Autobahn, refered to death rates.

@@veryveryhonestpendufan6062 and refering to a statistic of 2022, there are 318 deaths on the Autobahn, while in the city (with 50km/h max speed) has 746 deaths. Most tragic rate with 1498 deaths happened outside of the city with 100 km/h max speed, Source: a report by "Runter-Vom-Gas"

@@dhtran681 You're wrong, next time instead of jumping at the chance of just going on Google to copy and paste, actually read the comment first and make sure your pasted material is actually addressing what was said. i said it's home to the worst car accidents to ever exist, I didn't say it had the highest death rate. Accidents doesn't equate to fatality. And also, the us has 4x the population of Germany so comparison in that category wouldn't make sense. that info of yours 10 years outdated. In just those than years, autobahn has had worst and worst . There needs to be speed limits, lifes are at risk.

Underrated comment💀

A trip from Berlin to Poland is very economical. The Wehrmacht did it with just one tank.😂

​@@coover65the Wehrmacht started at the old polish, german border, so the way to warsaw was like in one Tank

Yeah but cars quantity is greater than planes and even less if it's not a domestic ​but private , we need to use cars instead of natural resources , @@C400ra

@@C400rawell they are too stupid to see the real climate problems like china or people flying jets

​@@C400rareally? Why was Greta thunberg using private jets then? Is she not a climate activist?

Less then that in my experience, I drove 300km at 150kph and was never overtaken. I only did it because my company was paying the fuel bill. When it is your own money driving faster then that can be expensive.

Where I live transport is the biggest emitter, after that industry and then agriculture. I think we really should focus on public transport that make our cities and journeys better while reducing emissions

But it depends on where you live of course if your grid uses a lot of fossil fuels for example than energy might be the biggest emitter

it depends, look at american style trafic jams, those definetly produce lot more emissions than few grannies going 160kmh.

They have a much larger population than Germany, and way more land. You should compare the per capita rates of both countries, not just their general total.

​@@morg678doesn't change the fact that they produce 6.7M CO2 (besides from the things we don't know).... industries, Germany has over 200k, China over 400k.... but they have almost 17x the population Germany has

​@@fabricio_1893 You just proved his point

Exactly. The speed limit must be introduced to protect lives.

​@@BunnyboyCarrotwell please look up death rates on autobahn compared to roads restricted to 100kph or to the death rate on us highways

​@@chalkopirateif you restrict the autobahn to 100 you eliminate its purpose i would be willing to settle for 160-180 but

​​​@@chalkopiratethere is something wrong with that statement. First of all, accidents which happen with less speed are obviously going to be less lethal and dangerous, not to mention slower speed would give drivers a longer reaction time. Just because the numbers on 100 km/h roads are bigger than in the Autobahn (which you likely are getting at here), does not mean if we enforce a speed limit on the Autobahn, lethal accidents wouldnt decrease. There are different causes for the differences in statistics, such as varying studies taken under different circumstances, and the corrolation here likely is not the speed limit. It could be: Roads off the Autobahn have less quality since there is less maintenance, tighter curves, nature endangering (animals crossing the road, trees above instead of far on the side drop branches). To blame it all on speed, which logically reduces the fatality of accidents by decreasing, is simply nonsense.

@@randomeevee6048by that logic, we should ban all types of transport because no speed means no accidents 🤷‍♂️

Nah Germans speed all the time and most ppl have a very surface level understanding

not quite no. Most drivers drive pretty agressively. To be fair, my experience comes from cycling and being a Passenger.

@@avocadosdiaboli5925 I would not compare it to the souuthern European countries, they have their own rules and its pretty messy on the roads in Spain, Italy and France. My couuntry the Netherlands is pretty fine, but I always like German drivers better.

@@sebastiangrebe8276 In Germany i've rarely seen people speed in 30 zones, but i have seen it in 50 zones. In the Netherlands, there is certain people who decide to speed in 30 zones in the middle of the city, often smoking and doing balloons, does this happen in Germany too? I do think cycling is better here in the Netherlands, more safe on specific roads, as for the passanger thing, i notice that i just cant be passanger because every turn is too unexpected or something hahaha.

And now bridges.. everywhere. Who would have thought that bridges designed for 50 years with much less travel begin to crumble after just 60-70 years of thrice the designed load oder so.

ok

Es rettet die Umwelt und Menschenleben, alles andere macht keinen Sinn

@@h3nry_772 Umweltschutz und das Retten der Menschenleben sind ganz wichtig, ja. Aber große Konzerne (besonders die Erdöl-Firmen) können mehr Verantwortung tragen - viel zu oft werden Menschen statt der Organisationen unter Druck gesetzt, selbst wenn solchen Organisationen mehr Fähigkeiten selbst ganz zu verändern. Ich stimme zu, dass wir die Pflicht um unsere gemeinsame CO2-Fußabdruck zu reduzieren. Dennoch jene mit größeren Fähigkeiten sollten mehr von diesen Aktivitäten durchführen.

@@compostboomtron9001 ein Tempolimit hat trotzdem nur Vorteile

@@h3nry_772 Anstatt den Deutschen ein Tempolimit vorzuschlagen, einfach weiter bei E-Fuels ansetzen. Kein Schadstoff auf deutschen Straßen, also lass mich doch so schnell fahren, wie ich gern möchte. Und ich glaube sogar, statistisch gesehen ist Deutschland das Land mit den wenigsten verursachten Verkehrsunfällen und das OBWOHL! wir auf unseren Autobahnen kein Tempolimit haben. Und warum? Weil wir uns auf der Autobahn auch mit 120km/h auf der rechten Spur trotzdem konzentrieren müssen, weil wir wissen, dass links neben uns mit 200km/h und evtl. sogar noch mehr einer vorbeibrettern kann. Sicherheit ist wohl also nicht das beste Pro Argument und auch das Argument des Umweltschutzes kann man auch mit E-Fuels mundtot machen. Bitte nicht angegriffen fühlen, alles hier basiert nur auf meiner Meinung. :)

​@@h3nry_772ein allgemeines Alkoholverbot hätte auch nur vorteile, Christbaumloben mit Apfelsaft macht aber auch keiner. Viel Kultur haben wir nicht also lasst dir Bauern Willi brennen und die Autospinner nachts 300 fahren

Dog won't bite a hand that feeds him. Just like they won't fight against someone who pays them for sitting on the street for a whole day.

We should worry about the world as a whole? Since climate change affects the whole world?

Part of the answer: they should and they do, but they’ve likely got more influence in their part of the world. Also if one country is doing way worse than another, that doesn’t mean that the country that’s doing better can’t improve

Well the recent COP28 meeting that says to phase out fossil fuels included china

China actually produces less carbon than germany! Pretty impressive. They also have some of the biggest renewable projects in the world

healthcare and arbeitslosengeld rn:

@@IbishuCovet not really, someone has to work to get unemployment money in germany, thats how it is.

will your grandchildren have freedom to live on a not-toasted planet? i guess that kind of freedom doesn’t interest you

@@oleksandrfedoriv there's absolutely no evidence of a causation between emissions of cars and climate change. Read the damn Koch meta study, where the media has their "97%" from. And even if Koch and Man are right, what they are definitely not, the emissions that we would save because of a limit is so small, that we couldn't even measure the difference. Read the Meta Study, look for the Ice Cores and evaluate your believes.

​@@oleksandrfedoriv 6.7 mill wont change that.

@@liad0x that’s per year. and it’s from this initiative only.

@@oleksandrfedorivit still doesn’t change anything

And also because a slave of neoliberalism + rich (FDP)

Actually, when asked if there should be a speed limit, 40% of germans replied with "yes, definitely" and 20% with "mostly yes". So the majority of germans would actually appreciate the limit

Die deutsche Autobahn war ursprünglich eher dafür gedacht um Fracht und Militärausrüstung/-fahrzeuge schneller von a nach b zu transportieren. So ganz unrecht hast du allerdings trotzdem nicht. So wurden einige wenige Autobahnabschnitte so gebaut dass auf diesen Rekordversuche unternommen werden konnten, beispielsweise die A9 bei Bitterfeld. Die AVUS hingegen wurde direkt als Rennstrecke geplant und später ins Autobahnnetz integriert.

Unfortunately that's not true 😮

Sh up u son of a ... ​@@bobschneider5475

And nowadays, most people are actually in favour of a limit 😅

Not true at all. They have extensive training before they can get a license. But this makes them arrogant and thus overconfident and dangerous. The best and most courteous drivers are in the uk.

​@@IfixitagainSince when?🤡🥴 You are still driving on the wrong side of the street 😂😉

Germany is running into a financial disaster. Maintenance of streets will soon have least priority.

. 003% increase on carbon since 1942. There is nothing to freak out about

​@@tiznipUmm, no. It's gone from 0.028% to 0.042% since industrial revolution. That is 50% increase in concentration, an amount ~17000 times larger than you claim. 🙄 Ignorance truly is a bliss.

@PhazonBlaxor even if that's true it still proves ny point. Nothing not even 0.1 % increase during the worst practices. We now do it much better. So why the panic.?

@@PhazonBlaxor also nor a 59% increase.

Cool story, nobody asked. Also has absolutely nothing to do with the video.

Are you JUST finding out that being disabled limits your freedom? 🤣 I hate to be the breaker of bad news but that’s a human experience transcendent of time or location. You really didn’t piece that together for yourself? Wow 💀

That's what the automotive lobbyists want you to think.

We have to give the car fetishists something. And be it allowing them to buy their tacky car decoration at Temu and Wish.

If only you knew how to spot lies. You're off by a factor of aroun 1000; big cargo ships use tens to hundred of tons of fuel per day, that's hundred to thousands of cars. But they haul several tens of thousands of times the cargo.

Those ships move things 10 times more efficiently than cars though.

Cargo ships are literally the most efficient mode of transporting goods we have today and for the last couple of thousand years.

That stat is even wrong. It assumes people will take public transport more often after the introduction of the limit.

Germany is now protecting freedoms? Seems very different than what they usually do

What "freedoms" literally...

One day, Chungus Maximus!

my friend.... even a base model german car would smoke the ole Stingray.... Sure, you would take them off the line, but top end, german cars are made for that.

​@themarksmn4181 yea for all those times you have a 3 mile racetrack to achieve the top speed right? Acceleration is always better than speed for 99% of drivers, not many roads allow for 180mph speeds but most can accommodate a 0-60 time below 4 seconds.

I drove my VW T6 campervan there at 105, and I was the slowest one.

​@@BenDover-ij7ypyeah BC you're going slow. Every delivery Sprinter runs faster - ask the guys from DHL 130mph with the 6cylinder diesels are no problem

250k miles and counting without one 👍

As much as I love that you said that about VW (and BMWs a lil bit), you know that BMW go up to half a million kilometers with considerably few problems and Mercedes is known as the million km engines, right ?

where are you from? 180 kph? what kind of car?

@@godhandvoid9795180 in km it’s eassy, with most saloons

You are wrong. The Isle of Man in the UK also has no speed limits.

@@godhandvoid9795I lived in morocco at that time. Also it was a bmw X1.

That's right, this is why I lease.

No no no! You have to restrict your living to an insane degree so that the rich can fly jets around and drive in big armored 10 limo long convoys :( think about the Chinese megafactories that would have to shut down if you didn’t stop driving and cooking and using electricity!!!

Then keep walking

To be stuck within walking distance of the same place makes you free? Your definitions are beyond warped pal 💀 yall have zero perspective and it’s hysterical

@@BoschhammerActual our ancestors have crossed all main continents by foot. If you can walk only to toilet and back to chair in front of tv it’s not make the idea of unrestricted walk through all countries and peoples owned land something laughable. Only thing that you have and not required payment is your legs otherwise you have to get permits, licenses or simply pay to owning those which means it’s not freedom.

from reckless speeders!!

@@ludwigsamereier8204 lol, do you live in Germany?

​@@ludwigsamereier8204exactly!

Where did they say that??

@@morg678it’s not referring to the video it is referring to how when many euros complain about America being bad because they allow firearms because of freedom while now when the same thing is being done to them they don’t like it.

@@therealgaben5527Most Germans will agree with you when you tell them it’s more dangerous than a general speed limit would be.

@@therealgaben5527don’t look at the death rates hihi

a gun's whole purpose is to kill. a car’s purpose is to go from one place to another. I don’t understand how that’s even comparable. killing is freedom to you? look at how many school shootings there are. it’s insane.

Everyone: Germany has beautiful art, culture, and nightlife. The cities are easy to navigate and the countryside is scenic. Car guys: GO FAST Germany will be fine without the rest of us turning rentals into scrap piles on their highways

but their decisions affects us too because of climate change

@PropellerMushroomNSMB If the Chinese and the Indians were held to the same standards, I might agree with you.

yeah but someones gotta take a step first@@MoreBibleReadingInTheChurches

@@EftelingCoasterfreak then go complain to china they produce 31% of words carbon emissions.

yeah but someone has to make the step first, i mean just because someone else is doing it it doesnt mean germany cant stop doing it either@@luk4s56