Safespeed said: The Autobahns were the first motorways and have tighter bends, shorter sliproads, more 2/4 lane and so on. Clearly there's no relationship at all between speed limit and fatality rate. By design they are considerably more dangerous than UK motorways. The Autobahns were the first motorways and have tighter bends, shorter sliproads, more 2/4 lane and so on. Or is it that they feel you have the right to decide for yourself and not be told what to do and that’s the risk you take on if you travel on the motorway ? Is there any data on DE : average motorway speeds, accidents, deaths, per 1,000 KM kind of thing ? Any “Like for Like” comparison with the UK ? I have a feeling DE does not kill any more because of their speed.
Perhaps it’s that in DE they don’t care if you die or take someone with you. In the UK if one enforces a 70mph limit then most crashes will be just injuries and not deaths (BiB please comment). DE claims only 6% of all accidents happen on their autobahn.Ĭyrus1971 said: I wonder if the reason there is a difference between the UK and DE motorway speed limits is nothing at all to do with driving. In their motorway section has more on this. mondeoman said: Is there any data on DE : average motorway speeds, accidents, deaths, per 1,000 KM kind of thing ? Any Like for Like comparison with the UK ? I have a feeling DE does not kill any more because of their speed. Certainly large sections of Bavaria and some parts of Stuttgart would be a lot worse off if fast cars were banned. In DE, they also recognise that owning and running a fast car is an expensive business that puts a lot of money back in the economy. In DE, owning a car is a joy and respect is due those who cruise at 150 mph or more day in day out. DE treats adults like adults - they expect some common sense. Mummy knows best, don't think for yourself, etc Also, in UK, owning a car and using it enthusiastically is one step away from being a child murderer. IMHO, UK tends to treat it's adults like children and then wonders why they act like children. Cyrus1971 said: Or is it that they feel you have the right to decide for yourself and not be told what to do and thats the risk you take on if you travel on the motorway ? It was found that average speed control reduced the number of speed offenders to less than 1% at an enforced section of motorway. Positive results with section control were also obtained in the Netherlands. Taking into account both effects on road safety and road traffic emissions, Stefan computed a cost-benefit ratio of average speed control of 1:5.3. Stefan estimated that after two years of operation average speed control reduced injury crashes by 33.3% and fatal and serious injuries by 48.8%. In its first year of operation, a reduction in average speed by more than 10 km/h was recorded. In Austria, Stefan evaluated the use of average speed control on an 80 km/h motorway stretch running through a tunnel. On sections where speed limits were frequently exceeded in the past, average speed control can bring back the number of offences to a few percent, or even less than one percent.Īverage speed control is still fairly new, not yet widely applied and not yet evaluated on a substantial scale.
Average speed on autobahn drivers#
On a stretch of road where average speed control is employed, most drivers obey the speed limit. The average speed can be calculated based on the time interval between these two points.Īverage speed control works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, which means the chance of being caught is close to 100 percent. The vehicle is identified when entering the enforcement section, and again when leaving it. Average speed control systems measure the average speed over a road section (usually 2 - 5 km).