satan_n_stuff wrote:Piter Lauchy wrote:cmsellers wrote:Piter Lauchy wrote:I'm a fantastic driver. That's all.
So what's the fastest you've driven on the autobahns?
160-170 km/h (~99-106 mph), I think.
You either have a really slow car or you've never once tried to see what it can do.
I don't have a car, but it's mostly the latter. To me, the point of no speed limit isn't to drive as fast as physically possible, but to be able to drive at a non-boring speed all the time.
Wikipedia says that 85 mph is the highest speed limit in the US, but that's only in a tiny part of Texas. 70-75 mph is way more common and it would annoy the crap out of me to never be allowed to go faster than that.
The official recommended speed here is 130 km/h (~81 mph). I usually drive at 140-150 km/h (~87-93 mph) and only go faster when there's an annoying driver at roughly my speed and I want to get away from them.
Once I get a motorcycle license that might change, though.