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tweet by amtrak ben: i think we should build high speed rail next to freeways only because it would make drivers feel like complete losers all the time
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tweet by amtrak ben: i think we should build high speed rail next to freeways only because it would make drivers feel like complete losers all the time
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This is the case in Germany, and it’s glorious. The fastest people on the Autobahn drive around 200 km/h, whereas the trains sometimes travel at 320 km/h. Always fun to see the slow cars!
Likewise Spain with the AVE. Cars are speed limited to 130 max I think, so it looks like the cars are stopped.
I don’t know if Deutsche Bahn is the best example of this. ICE’s maximum speed only means you usually end up leaving when you are supposed to be arriving.
Well, Deutsche Bahn is the place where I experience exactly what the meme is suggesting. Should I have mentioned another rail service I don’t know and haven’t experienced?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2023/oct/08/german-train-travel-deutsche-bahn-kafka explains it better than I could in a single comment. Searching for “Verzögerungen im Betriebsablauf” will give you more examples of the mess Deutsche Bahn’s operations are.
I know that the delays are a mess. But I’ll ask again: why should I talk about some different rail service that I have never used instead of the one I have used?
It’s not like the trains don’t drive at high speeds due to the delays. I sat in them and experienced what the meme describes. And now I’m not supposed to mention it as an example because of train delays? What?
god, driving at 200km/h is so insane
I’m sure newer cars are much better at it, but 150 is already scary enough in my 2012 model. It doesn’t handle bumps well at 130, I don’t want to test fate.
It’s not a question of age, but of the car model. Any german upper middle class car from (at least) the 80s onwards was able to comfortably go 180–200 km/h, upper class > 200 km/h, lower middle class 160–200, smaller cars provide an adventurous driving experience at 150 km/h.
There shouldn’t be bumps on the autobahn.
Ya, I also wish those slowpokes would get out of my way…
No, driving a moving truck (that’s small enough to not full under the separate speed limit for trucks) at 200km/h is insane. Seen that before ^^
Stuttgart - Köln is one of the connections that go max speed, and it really is glorious.
But I don’t think there’s actually that many places the ICE can go that fast, is there?
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:ICE_Network.png
Not a whole lot, then. But then again, even 160km/h is faster than the average speed you’d travel at on the Autobahn
I posted this comment already elsewhere in this thread, but lemme quote myself:
Sometimes? How about this decade old French record?
Do all trains in France always drive that fast? If not it’s also sometimes, so…