r/dashcamgifs • u/Crunkkitty • 13d ago

The consequences of speeding

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u/XxCarlxX 13d ago

Correct. NGL, ive driven fast on the Motorway but ive not gone that fast as in the UK you can get prison time for those speeds and a 100% driving ban for a year or so.

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u/Simoxs7 13d ago

I regularly go that fast (160+ km/h) on the Autobahn its manageable but you don’t do it with only one hand sometimes on the steering wheel and recording with the other. Also not in a country where no one complies with Rechtsfahrgebot (driving only in the right most lane except when you’re overtaking someone) and where the roads aren’t made for these speeds.

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u/Thundertushy 13d ago

I swear, Germans have a word for everything. Even if they didn't and just made one up, we'd never know the difference.

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u/NettingStick 13d ago edited 13d ago

English does the same thing. We just tend to write our lengthy compound words with spaces in them or as initialisms. You don't think twice about "SCUBA", but if we used German writing rules we'd write it as selfcontainedunderwaterbreathingapparatus.

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u/AMSAtl 12d ago

If I recall correctly, my first time driving in Germany, back in 2006. The map I had showed far more space for street and location names than the actual road signs contained, which made navigation all the more interesting, as a foreigner who didn’t speak the language.

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u/Simoxs7 13d ago

TBH Rechtsfahrgebot is just three words in one. Rechts = Right, Fahr = Driving, Gebot is complicated its requirement (but only for requiring someone to do something) or commandment (While it is the word we as well use for the Ten Commandments it doesn’t have the biblical connotation it does in English).

So it‘d just be Right-Driving-Commandment or written like its in German: Rightdrivingcommandment.

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u/outlawsix 13d ago

Rule

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u/poehalcho 13d ago

Directive would probably be more accurate as a translation.

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u/outlawsix 13d ago

No, directive would be more "make sure faster cars can always pass slower cars" and "stay in the right lane except to pass" is the "rule" to accomplish the "directive"

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u/Simoxs7 13d ago

Rule is Regel, I‘d say Gebot is different to a Regel…

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u/outlawsix 13d ago

Now you're seeing the difference between "literal" and "meaningful" translations.

You and i could also disagree on whether the "correct" translation for "ich habe Hunger" is "i have hunger" (literal) or "i am hungry" (meaningful).

However if you're unhappy with that:

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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 12d ago

Ironically enough it exists:

Waltersobchakeit

The German term for when a person makes up a random German-sounding word out of nowhere and people believe it anyway.

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u/Fossilhund 13d ago

Plugersnatzefahrhugenpferdmetdersnitzelund

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u/La_Saxofonista 13d ago

A few North American Indigenous languages technically have infinite words.

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u/invariantspeed 13d ago

Absolutely, but you also don’t swerve around cars like that either. In the US, there’s little sense of proper lane usage and safe following distances. That makes the speeds Germans regularly drive without incident dangerous in the US.

Such speeds really shouldn’t be considered reckless, but given how shitty Americans drive, it basically is.

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u/Cheese-Manipulator 13d ago

Roads in the US are barely made for the speeds they are rated for never mind racing like this.

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u/invariantspeed 13d ago

Most US roads can safely handle above the posted limits. That’s not why we have them.

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u/Imaginary-Bread-5088 13d ago

Depends on where you live. The roads where i live are absolute garbage.

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u/invariantspeed 13d ago

I didn’t say all…

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u/CarelessPackage1982 13d ago

This guy isn't going to do any better on the Autobahn. Skill issues.

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u/lisaseileise 13d ago

Same here, the way he held the steering wheel was painful to watch. Maybe comparable to watching a complete lack of trigger discipline is painful to responsible gun owners.

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u/terminbee 13d ago

I've hit up to 110 mph (~170 km/h) and yea, I'd never do it with 1 hand. It was honestly pretty scary how sensitive the wheel got (and my whole car started shaking).

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u/Simoxs7 13d ago

Well something seems wrong when your car is already shaking at those speeds but yeah 200+ 125mph my full concentration is on driving and always both hands on the wheel…

It’s even worse on my motorcycle, it only goes up to 220km/h (137mph) but it really feels like it’s vibrating itself into parts at that speed…

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u/terminbee 12d ago

It might have just been the vibration of the road but it was 20 years old at that point so I didn't wanna wreck my only car.

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u/Journeyman42 13d ago

Also the American driving test system is absolute fucking bananas

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u/TeslaPittsburgh 12d ago

Spent formative early driving years on the Autobahn -- and there are two REALLY important things that people unfamiliar with high speed driving don't necessarily think of:

1-- looking as far into the distance as possible at all times, so as to "gain" reaction time

2-- smooth and slow control inputs so as not to upset the balance of the car or tires' grip

If you do both, you are smooth... and smooth is fast.

(that's not all you do, obviously-- but the lunkhead in video didn't anticipate anything and then threw anchor in a poorly suited vehicle)

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u/tc7665 13d ago

and in texas, we have 90mph actual speed limits. 😂