Why Cars Can Go Speeds They Can’t Legally Hit - Cheddar Explains
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- All around the world, speed limits are placed on public roads to promote car safety and save lives. In that same world, car manufacturers have continued to look for ways to build faster and faster cars. Despite the dangers of speeding, many drivers are guilty of pushing the pedal from time to time. With cars being such a prevalent culture in everyday life, especially in the US, it’s worth wondering what it would take for car companies to once and for all settle the argument of safety versus freedom.
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High speeds on dry highways with attentive drivers are not anywhere near as dangerous as medium speeds and distracted drivers.
Add snow for maximum chaos.
You could be looking at your phone and kill a kid doing just 10mph
@@dbclass4075 add snow in a place that doesn’t normally get it and thats a legit crisis 😂
The only times I nearly crashed, were, when I was stuck behind a slow driver and not paying attention, when I'm breaking the speed limit, even by a few miles, I'm usually a lot more engaged in actually driving
@@dbclass4075 Time to use the handbrake for maximum fun.
“Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.”
- Jeremy Clarkson
When I was learning to drive, a friend of mine told me repeatedly, "the brake pedal gets you into more trouble than the gas pedal."
Getting rammed into by a car makes you gain speed and lose life
So the faster you go the more of a chance you’ll die……
Suddenly becoming stationary at 5mph won't kill you, stopping abruptly from 170mph will definatly kill you.
Technically, speed doesn't kill you, it's acceleration (or deceleration)
Speeding is dangerous in the US because of the lack of driver's discipline, which I've mentioned several times in my videos. The Autobahns in Germany have LESS deaths per mile/km even with unrestricted speeds on many parts of the autobahns. We don't need speed limiters, we need better driver discipline
I don't know how I can get this comment higher up, but if I comment on your comment and like your comment, maybe more people will see your comment, because it's a really important thing to point out.
also better built roads with fewer inconsistencies. helps allot. and a culture of attention while driving. porsche was confused when people wanted cup holders.
this.
@SolQuik natural selection
Germany can install better driving discipline due to availability of alternatives to driving: pedestrian spaces, bicycle lanes, and mass transit, with Inter City Express (ICE) trains the most prominent. Try to do that in USA:
• "You are taking away my freedom!"
• "How can I get to work?"
• "Why take away my ability to travel."
In summary, USA is very automobile dependent; in order to practically travel anywhere, a car is needed. The car is the symbol of freedom because when it is removed, Americans are "trapped"; there is simply no other option.
In Germany, if the authorities notice a significant number of accidents on a certain portion of roadway, they call in an engineer to fix the problem. They redesign the curve, they re-grade the road, whatever it takes.
In the US, if the authorities notice a significant number of accidents on a certain portion of roadway, they start issuing lots of traffic tickets on that portion of the road, and it becomes a steady source of revenue for the city.
Forgot to add that (in the US) it never fixes the problem...
@@LLF1234 “What problem? I don’t see a problem 🤑”
Sometimes they'll install a safety barrier of some kind, but they have a certain amount of money where they just call it and say it's not worth saving a life.
@@collin3012 Spending money on infrastructure? What is this, Switzerland?
LoL we in Slovakia redesign and issue tickets at same time. 😂
Before even watching, I'm going to hope the answer is: Gearing and Fuel Efficiency. That's why Overdrive Gears exist.
We don't actually expect people to hit Max Speed on Commutes, but as long as cars are "geared to go fast" they can then just sit in a Higher gear while going slower which gets Better MPG. That's all there is to it. It was a Science/Engineering Reason.
Hewwo senpai, you have nice Weebvette there
oh hey bladed where’s Miata actually how’s the miata
They referenced the ssc tutatuara 😂😂
was not expecting to see one of my favorite car youtubers in this comment section but hi lol
Ah emperor bladed
German here, I went to the Hanover airport yesterday by driving the A2. It was early so I could set the cruise control to 130mph and do 200 miles in 2 hours.
You'd do 260 miles in 2 hours?
That math doesn't add up...
Can‘t keep it up forever but just wanted to show how fast you can drive under ideal circumstances.
@@allthingsmotors1763 pretty sure he just rounded it
Fellow non-American here. I’ve been to America, and from what I can tell, their problem is not speed, but discipline and skill; many of them drive like someone out of Mad Max: Fury Road, and unsurprisingly that gets such fools as just another integer in a statistic of vehicular casualties. That’s their problem; they’re horrid drivers. Whereas on the autobahn, everyone knows the importance of safe driving, and there’s nothing to rebel against, so it functions fine.
What I mean by that is, with some people, their minds are hardwired to think that whatever logical thing someone more knowledgeable than them says on a matter, they mustn’t do that. So they see speed limits, and think “no, I’ll not drive at a safe speed, because that sign said to drive at a safe speed.” Which is very unwise and backwards, but that’s how they think, it seems. When there’s no speed limits to tell one what speed to drive at, one then tends to default to the classic human instinct of “monkey see monkey do”, following the speed of the other drivers present; when everyone speeds, nobody does, essentially.
I'm a huge car guy. I love fast cars. But it's something that needs to be respected. And used responsibly. If car companies decide to limit me, I'll just modify the car. There's easy ways around the speed limiters.
Exactly. Just because I car can hit 150 doesn’t mean everyone is gonna be flooring it everywhere. I hate how they try to control everything “for our safety”
@@Nexalian_Gamerunfortunately, theres just stupid people in the world which are the reason those rules are made
@@Nexalian_Gamerit is safer to go slower believe it or not, maybe you're responsible but not everyone is, and entrusting everyone to be safe in multi ton hunks of metal isn't reliable. The gaurenteed alternative is limiters.
@@aaronthetree3758 except a car is just dangerous enough at legal speeds. And alcohol is a much bigger problem in motor vehicle accidents
The thing is that they’d probably make it a requirement to have a functioning speed limiter to be able to register your vehicle or renew it. I’m sure there’d still be ways around it but yeah.
BTW, governor limited vehicles have a very specific reason for this that's not directly about just limiting vehicle speed. Tires are speed rated. Depending on how they're made and what they're made to do, they can only be spun so quickly without losing stability or failing, altogether. The manufacturer limits the vehicle speed based on the rating of the tires they put on it at the factory. Most of those tires are rated to 118MPH.
I’m glad you made this point bro 🙏🏽
Yep- the audi a4 is limited at 132 in us but 155 in germany because they have worse tires from the factory in the us 👍
Not completely true. My car came from the factory with tires rated for 149mph but it's limited to 115mph.
@@madmatt2024 your car is limited to a speed that the tires can handle... that's what he said
not enough people know about this, because not enough people know how quickly and catastrophic going past a tire's rated speed is. my tires are safe up to 113 mph, so my car is limited to 112, because if i went 114 then all 4 tires would spontaneously uninstall themselves.
Next you should do a video exploring why the US has been reluctant to improve driver training. Most people know little to nothing about traction, car control, braking, and driving techniques taught in performance driving schools throughout the country. My friend in Florida got his drivers license in a parking lot, and people wonder why car insurance rates are so high there. Meanwhile finland is steady producing road racing champions having far better road safety per capita.
I'd point the worst drivers also tend to come from warm weather states as the provisional license rules doesn't teach a learning driver "This is a bad time to drive or to learn about traction and car control". High quality racing drivers disproportionately also seem to come from Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, etc when compared to Florida or Texas due to a combo of proximity to Indianapolis and the weather to develop various techniques.
Because the easiest way to get onto federal disability support is to prove you are unable to drive
I got my license at 17 after practicing for an hour. I took the test in a car I had never seen before.
I've never been in an accident.
Training isn't the issue. There needs to be an IQ test, not a driving test.
car dependency
when people need to drive, you can't deny them licenses
Nevada allows illegal immigrants to drive. They get a special license ("driver authorization card") specifically for them.
When I started driving in the 80's, the interstate speed limit for all 50 states was 55 mph. They also used to have speedometers which stopped at 85 mph, so beyond that you'd have no idea how fast you were going. They also had 4 cyclinder cars with probably 80 hp, and top speeds of around 75 mph. Things have changed a LOT in 35 years.
My 87 Hyundai's speedo stops at 115 MPH - I surpassed it (took a LONG time, tailwind and going down a hill) - this car only had 74 HP (when new, it was over 20 years old at the time)
Shit gearing in 3 speed automatics is more to blame than Iron Duke engines.
Umm yep you're like really old.
Yeah ain’t it crazy that most speed limits are still only 55 mph 40 years later cars have gotten faster, more efficient, and safer. And yet the speed limits haven’t changed
Where the hell are they 55? I've been driving from Toronto to NYC 15 years ago and the limit was IIRC 65, 70 at times. On the wya to Chicago, 10 years ago for my 30th, I was doing 70 Mph at times, 65 most of the way. Arizona, 20+ years ago I recall my old man doing 75.
@@the_kombinator it's still 55 on the 10 in Phoenix, but yeah 65 or 75 most elsewhere
In Texas every speed is legal unless its school zone, construction zone, or there are cops nearby😂
That's the case everywhere. I could also say in Germany bank robberies are legal as long as you don't get caught.
3:03 Because certain places the speed limited is out dated. Most people WILL drive 5 - 10 over knowing that you probably won't get a ticket until you are 15 over. Then driving over the speed limit is more noticeable since everyone is going 5-10 over and you going 15 and sticking out like a sore thumb.
Ever try to drive 25 mph locally? Most people go 30 which seems to be the sweet spot. But they don't want to post it at 30 cause they know people will go 35 -40. So the government plays with numbers too knowing that people will most likely never go the speed limit.
So in general the current speed limit is right where it needs to be. Government knows that people will go over so they can give you a ticket and generate revenue. They ticket the most obvious speeders. The more noticeable you are weaving in and out of traffic or going way faster than everyone else that is also speeding the more likely you will get a ticket.
Speed isn’t an issue in of itself
It’s a whole set of factors that come into play including awareness, position , anticipation etc …
Just go to any supermarket on a busy Friday afternoons d observe how people with shopping trolleys struggle to interact or how two people in the same isle in opposite directions causes total confusion …
See this and you will understand it’s not always the speed but the basic ability to move around in an ever changing environment that many people just can’t cope with
As a Texan, I’ve taken the road with the 85mph limit. It’s a toll road that goes around Austin. Not a whole lot of traffic, and it’s so tempting to go faster. After all 100 is only 15 over, versus the average 30 over!
i mean, as a texan you are probably going 90 anyway on a highway
I love texas and fl open stretches for miles
i remember going to austin airport when i was young and my dad being pulled over for going 80 in a zone which was apparently 55 even though it was flat and you could see for miles
@@arjunyeleshwarapu yes but the local mayor's swimming pool isn't going to build itself.
Yeah, here in New Mexico it's insane how low the speed limits are. We don't even get 85, the highest is 75. Granted a lot of the roads are shit, but the speed limits are for revenue not safety. Virtually nobody follows it not even the cops.
Because there are stretches of roads with barriers where cops cannot hide, and roads in the middle of nowhere where cops don't bother going and you can do whatever the hell you want without reprecussions. Speeding itself isn't dangerous, just look at Germany's Autobahn. It is one of the safest roads. It doesn't matter how fast you go if people suck are driving. You can be standing still, and have some drunk driver hit you and kill you, and you are going zero miles per hour. Speeding kills is merely a scapegoat for politicians to push the blame for their crappy roads and bad driver training. I've done 120mph on an empty midnight road where the limit is 55, where I am sure that there cannot be any cops. It was perfectly safe to do, nobody could have gotten hurt. A bigger factor is the state of the cars. Most people don't know how to maintain them, and so, those cars become dangerous at speed. However, if properly maintained with a well educated driver on a good road, any modern car can easily hold at least 100mph on the highway with less accidents than with whatever system we have now.
I've done around 120 on a freeway with another guy just cruising along at midnight before. It's safe when you know how to drive and the road is well maintained. That being said, I don't drive the average car, I have ceramic brake pads, good suspension, and a V8. I have a decent buffer zone. Everything you said is true. A car's maintenance is pertinent to a driver being able to speed safely.
In my driving history(4 plus decades), I have been instructed several times by 911 dispatchers to exceed the posted speed limit on order to follow, maintain visual contact, or try to get license plate information from a suspected DWI, road-rager, or a vehicle involved in a hit and run accident, etc.
One partucular incident that stands out in my memory- the dispatcher was relaying information between myself and a responding state patrol officer who was still several miles behind.
The car in question was moving considerably faster than I was. The officer requested that I accelerate and try to keep up since it was in the very early morning hours and traffic was light. I informed them that I was driving a tractor-trailer(at the time, the truck speed limit on the Ohio Turnpike was 55).
The officer asked, "How fast does your truck go?"🤣
Long story short, I pushed it to over 100 to catch up, then maintained 85 to 90 about a half-mile back for 5 or 6 miles.
When the officer caught up, I was slowing down & following the vehicle into a service plaza.
I watched as the driver quickly failed a sobriety test, and was then cuffed & stuffed.
The officer took a quick verbal statement from me. Before thanking me and sending me on my way, he said, "That big truck going that fast sure was easy to see from a long ways off."
Lol. No you didn’t. If you got in an accident as a civilian playing cop with permission from a 911 dispatcher that would of been a huge lawsuit. Nice story though kid
why u snitching bro
@@jakegrames9001
Kid?🤔
I'm sure I've got years on you.
Back then, people didn't immediately go running to their mouthpiece if something bad went down while someone was trying to help.
@@sklizzy3125
'Cuz I would hope that a driver who wasn't even from anywhere near my hometown would do the same- 'cuz MY family might be a couple of miles ahead- or ANYBODY'S family for that matter- including yours.
several times tho you either got great luck or very bad luck.
theres also the fact that you can bring street vehicles to racetracks, as well speed limits are a fluid thing, a couple of canadas highways just had the maximum speed limit upped to 110 km/h, obviously there are ceilings to this. the other thing to consider is i would bet that speeding in cities where pedestrians and cyclists are a factor is significantly more of an issue
1:55 Driven that highway a few times. Still feels totally surreal passing a state trooper while going 90 mph and not getting pulled over.
that's nearly every highway in texas. our police really don't care to pull people over for speeding in my experience. i have past a police officers going over 100 and they more or less don't really give a damn.
@@dillzilla4454 Depends on the area I guess. There are definitely plenty of towns that are speed traps. Estelline is one of the most famous speed traps in the country.
@jimmy also depends on whether you are white or not. data suggests that whites are less likely to be pulled over
@@jonathangrey1707 I am a dog (see profile picture)
@@jonathangrey1707 dawg how does a cop know what color you are when you fly past him at 100 mph
The 2 best places to test your car's top speed are long racetracks & the Autobahn, which is a road found only in Germany.
a lot of accidents are caused by people driving far under the speed limit too lmao
Very true; studies have shown that someone traveling below the speed limit is actually more dangerous to the motoring public than someone traveling above it (granted, you could take either example to the extreme [i.e., 5 MPH and 150 MPH, for example]).
a lot of accidents are caused by idiots traveling at all speeds
So, a vague term like _"speed related accidents"_ would be perfect for someone presenting a biased opinion while doing no research and having no experience with it at all.
That's so weird, I think they said exactly that in this video. 🤔
I hate slow drivers as well, but you are supposed to maintain your vehicle to stop at any point. Slow drivers wouldn't cause crashes if people would give more space between vehicles.
That is one of the tings that gets me when I'm driving, and i can say im getting in a state where it ill be better to pull ond the side road to cool off, like slow driving driving with a phone constantly braking in front of me. Dude drive the car +-10mph/km at the right conditions why just when u fukin drive dont do other things and if u scared to drive and drive 30under the limit let someone else drive so we don't tilt and everyone is safe
Limiting car speeds is one of the stupidest things ever. If you ever have to take someone to a hospital you'll be glad if your car isn't limited. Waiting for an ambulance isn't always an option.
Being fast on the highway isn't a danger at all
They drivers that go fast in a 2 lanes road or a city are dangerous
And let's be honest, it's all about the driver's discipline and education
Well, since you can't trust people to do the right thing, no one can have nice things.
@@johnstorm9314 agreed
"Illegal on any road" *laughs in autobahn*
My newer vehicle gives a prominent red exclamation point by my speed readout if I go too far beyond the speed limit (which the car sometimes gets wrong- there are a few spots near me that my car thinks are 25mph zones, which are actually 65mph zones). It also has automatic cruise control, and will automatically change speed when moving across speed zones, or slow down to match a slower vehicle in front of me.
Thats the dumbest thing I've ever heard that a car can do. Are you able to override it?
Not gonna lie, I'd end up selling whatever car reduces its own speed in traffic. Driver assists are nice, but there's a point where it's too much. Driving a car is something many do every day; it is much more enjoyable to get in and DRIVE the car rather than let the car drive itself.
There are plenty of reasons why people don't like speed limiters, even if they aren't inclined to use the speed available.
There's the theoretical (basically the "just in case" and personal freedom arguments).
There's the practical (if you govern every vehicle to the same maximum speed, and it's reasonable - say 10-20 mph over the speed limit - it can cause traffic delays and "road rage" by inhibiting passing) (when passing on a two-lane road, I want to be around the vehicle I'm passing ASAP).
And there's the "sheer enjoyment"/my car is not an appliance/aspirational aspect. Even though I might never consider exceeding the speed limit by more than 15 km/h, I still like the fact that I could go faster. I love the engineering involved, and the idea that driving is a skill that can be improved. And there's the time-honoured tradition of car nuts gathering around an open hood discussing the technical aspects of a vehicle that make it amazing, often while others argue the opposite.
And that's the fundamental problem with this video - it was made by someone who neither understands nor appreciates cars or car culture. He just doesn't get it, same as I don't get rhythmic gymnastics (an old joke with my wife, who does). It's not an indictment of the athletes or sport that I, or anyone else doesn't. It's just a product of different tastes and ways that brains work.
But I think this could be a useful and educational video if it was made by someone who likes cars, and didn't simply swallow all the usual clichés and truisms.
Society seems to be getting more and more obsessed with safety. There is an acceptable degree of risk in life but people are losing sight of that somehow.
25 deaths EVERY GOD DAMNED DAY in the United States from auto collisions where speed was determined as the direct cause for the fatality. That's utter fucking insanity
@@Mark-kt5mh that's higher than other countries that have higher speed limits. The US has notoriously easy driving tests and roughly *ten times* the drink driving fatality rate as the UK (population differences accounted for). There are other factors making that figure so high.
@@Mark-kt5mh 2 people die every second though, so eh
People always get this wrong.. The Autobahn is not A stretch of road. Autobahn is the german word for highway. Unless otherwise signposted, there is no speed limit. BUT this also applies to other roads in Germany! The rule is that the road must have a physical barrier between the lanes going in opposite directions. (and the sign 331.1 Kraftfahrstrasse) - still not an Autobahn, but no speed limit.
Only some sections of the Autobahn are without speedlimit and the Richtgeschwindingkeit (recommended speed) is 130 kmph something like 90 miles or so.
'some' sections being 70%
@@Steamrick yeah, but you definitely cant go as fast as you can in these areas, especially in the west there is a lot of traffic
@@maximilian952 Depends on time of day, day of week and exactly where you're driving. Even in the west there's times and places where you can go very fast. Just don't expect them to be while driving past cologne.
@@maximilian952 in the start of the pandemic during the largest lockdown, autobahn was mostly empty. A lot of people tested their car top speeds during that time there. Look it up on UA-cam
@@maximilian952 You can. Holy shit it's a pro speed limit lie that you can't. You often can.
Why does Germany, the only country in the world with (technically) no generalized speed limit on the Autobahn, the interstate highway system have fewer deaths on its highway system, both absolute and per 100 000 km traveled than many other countries with much more restricted speed limits?
The numbers of deaths on the Autobahn has been going down over the last three decades constantly, with exactly ONE year exception in the last ten years with a small minor uptick.
The death toll on ALL German roads per 100 000 km is much lower than in the USA, or the UK, or many other countries with far more restricitive speed limits.
The largest number of deaths in Germany is on back-country roads / Landstraße, closely followed by inner-city traffic, accounting for the fairly large number of accidents with bicyclists being involved in car accidents. Which is something that Germany has been investing a LOT into in the last decade as well to make cycling much safer. Sure, we are no Netherlands or Denmark yet, but we are getting there slowly.
Because Germans KNOW that driving on the road, especially the highway requires constant attention, not driving distracted due to texting, phone usage, drinking, eating, doing your makeup, or being sleepy due to boredom or distracted by road rage.
Slow-pokes on higher speed lanes blocking traffic for miles, forcing others to take dangerous passes to the right, making them weave in and out of rolling traffic,
distracted driving for any reason,
no awareness of approaching cars from behind,
no actual driving tests or driving training with both tough, arduous practical and theoretical written tests,
completely ridiculous arbitrary intersection rules (whoever arrives first is allowed to go first is sooo arbitrary because this can lead to split-second decissions that have nothing to do with reason but with emotions),
huge trucks and SUV's blocking lines of sight to other traffic participants, or heck, even to the end of their OWN vehicle difficult, making situational awareness very difficult if not impossible,
these same huge trucks and SUV's carting around huge weights that make them inherently physically unable to stop as quickly as smaller lighter cars,
the lack of mandatory technical checkups for any vehicles,
the width of lanes suggesting free roads while in reality traffic is already close to congested, causing drivers to drive too high speeds,
the construction of huge inner-city stroads (check out the channels 'Strong Towns' and 'Not Just Bikes' for a discussion of the 'stroad') which merge the worst characteristics of highways and inner-city streets,
the list of totally arbitrary, illogical rules and physical reality that are not even applied consistently goes on and on.
But all of that combines to make the USA and many other countries that have modelled their infrastructure on the US standard such a nightmare to drive in.
Because in Germany driving is a luxury, you do not need a car to get around in Germany. The average car ownership is 0.5:1 in other words the average person in Germany doesn't even own a car. Comparatively there are 1.88 vehicles per U.S. household, basically everyone in the US owns a car because everyone in the US needs to own a car.
@@Outwardpd @D U its 580 per 1000 people in Germany and 780 per 1000 us citizens. It's not like whole Germany is a giant city where everyone has access public transport. And still every household in Germany has around 1.2 cars. Around 70% of Germans go to work by car. 84% of transportation of people was done by car.
Young people which live in cities tend to travel by bus or tram or train but if you have your own house or live just not in Berlin or frankfurt you NEED a car in Germany. It's not a luxury
I liked your comment until you mentioned that anti-car bastard.
It's not true what you wrote. German roads are a bit on average on the list of countries of safest roads in the EU
#1 Sweden
#2 UK
#3 Denmark
#4 Netherlands
This list is as usually
The problem isn't speed, is the awful drivers in the US, which you have because the city design forces everyone to drive. That's why there's no Autobahn in the US despite the Autobahn itself being the inspiration of the freeways of America, the US just doesn't deserve it, at least not with the drivers that you have.
It's also way too easy to get a license.
There are times when going faster is either necessary or safer
The amount of times I've used my bike's speed to outrun someone who was running me down makes it worth it.
Imagine trying to pass at a high speed when suddenly the car freaks out and slows itself down, forcing you to push on the gas more. Not a safe scenario. I’ve almost been killed walking on my local road twice by cars which pull back in the lane after the driver tried to give me room by slightly crossing the center lane.
If you have to reject more than a small % of your passing attempts you might want to check your driving. Plus, passing, let alone driving, on a two lane road at the speeds these governors would kick in would be tragically stupid.
What
@@kevinconrad6156 I'm referring to a multilane freeway. Anytime the car takes control away from an in-control driver, it's dangerous. Kicking your speed up to pass a truck for instance. And yes, I wouldn't condone driving 100+ even to pass, but its a slippery slope before they start regulating 90, 85. I don't mind when my car beeps at me that I've exceeded, but to actually slow me down is frightening.
In Europe it's illegal to exceed the speed limit even while overtaking. On highways large trucks have lower speed limits than regular trucks and have had mandatory 90km/h governors for years. With this system, my bigger concern would be that it misidentifies the actual speed limit, because it missed a sign or read it wrong.
@@Vengir Exactly, its these systems still rely on infrastructure we don't have everywhere.
Speed limiters can be really good. As someone who really enjoys racing and car culture I do hope a "sport mode" is added to cars with speed limiters for track days and private property shenanigans.
The limiter should not exist
The issue is that then ppl will just drive in sport mode 24/7
@@Egerit100 regular guys won’t because of increased gas mileage. Enthusiasts still get their fun
just take the speed limiter out, the aftermarket will prevail
@@AvidJoker. aftermarket parts from china yo!!!
I can't believe an actual suggestion to slow down drivers is to make lanes smaller so there's more obstructions on the road, making it harder to see things further away... That sounds to me like a recipe to induce MORE accidents, not less... Many of the people causing accidents aren't paying enough attention to the road as it is, so let's just go ahead and make that even harder to do...
It works though. Perceived danger is very different from real danger. People go the speed they perceive to be safe, not the speed that's actually safe
I'm a motorcycle person. Motorcycles have basically been able to go go 200 mph since the late '80. They actually have started to figure out that the less powerful bikes are more popular these days.
Anything after about 160mph is just scary... Lol
I think the idea that somebody artificially limits the device you bought is the problem here. Would you like if somebody would limit what software you could run on your computer?
Exactly. We should instead train the drivers instead of giving them their license if they just ask for one.
A practical matter: Laws change. Speed limits used to be 55 mph across the nation. Now they are higher in some places. If limits _are_ raised, people are not going to want to be tied to an old limit.
My first car was a 4 cylinder Chevy Optra, previous owner had removed the governor, it could do 220km/h, did it a few times
"1500-2000 rpm, about 60 mph" my car is going at 2650 rpm at 60 😂💀👀
Below 1500rpm is ideal for fuel efficiency. You cant get good torque out of that though. For acceleration or hills, you would want at least 2000rpm, with the maximum torque around 3500rpm. For manual cars, you often drive ar as high a gear you can get away with without lugging, and you shift down a gear or even 2 if you anticipate the need to accelerate, like passing, merging, or hills.
Speed limit was implemented as a fuel saving measure in the 70s, it was never about safety in the 1st place
That is USA-specific. European speed limits were more of a revenue stream before the safety aspect.
Seatbelts prevent you from becoming a projectile in a car accident. Airbags do the same thing. Those aren’t just safety features for the driver and passengers, it’s a safety feature for bystanders. I personally would like to start seeing vehicles as more of personal safety transports. Pressurized cabins with CBRN filters, ballistic glass windows to precent thieves from easily breaking into my car, a return to keyed ignition to prevent hackers from controlling my vehicle(yes, that is a real threat that can easily happen), etc.
It’s kinda wild how many people are mad about speed caps, blaming accidents on other factors. As someone whose uncle was killed in an accident, speeding is absolutely a factor. I feel people need to realize just how much control you have over other peoples’ lives when you’re behind the wheel. Be safe. Go the speed limit. Don’t drive when tired or inebriated. Don’t use your phone while driving. Pay attention to your surroundings.
Most accidents involve at least one car going 15% above or below the speed limit, make sure you are following the rules of the road.
Good thing for us in Dubai the speed limit is 120 km/h and if we go to Abu Dhabi which is 1 hour away from Dubai, the speed limit is 160 km/h and the good thing is that you’ll get a fine if you go too slow.
The national speed limit should be 75MPH right lane/Slow lane & 85MPH in the left lane/Fast lane! If you travel frequently on the highway you’ll notice that anybody going under 75MPH will get tailed by cars or get passed by cars until you get back in the right lane! Nobody likes speed limit drivers on the highway & we all know it! I’ve literally been pulled over for going the speed limit lol even cops think it’s suspicious & figure your intoxicated or trying to hide something by following the law lol just change it already 🤦🏾♂️
Even if you made limiters people would remove them
Duh, limiting the human experience is a form of tyranny.
I pay for the road ways. If I become road kill I have already paid for the services.
Some people undoubtedly would.
The vast majority of people would not, either due to not wanting to violate the manufacturer's warranty or due to not wanting to risk accidentally somehow adversely affecting the vehicle.
Also a speed limiter does not necessary have to be set at 55mph or something. It could just be set at like 110mph or something for any non-modified car.
@@dr.floridaman4805
Will your car insurnce pay for the loss of income and the emotional trauma counseling for a gireving widow and her kids if you accidentally crash into and kill a husband? What about the other man's equal right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"?
Also why not just drive over the speed limit at drag races, on race tracks during track days and/or on private roads? Why do you feel the need to excessively speed on public roads?
The way I see it, as consumers decide they want something (like airbags) it becomes a selling feature and automakers put it in. It didn't matter what the government safety standards were when my dad purchased his last car, he looked at how it compared in the segment and saw it had a pretty good rating. He would not have bought a car with a bad safety rating even if the government standards were lower and I think that is the same for a lot of people.
Always drive safely. Don't be tempted to speed on public roads. Now worth taking a chance.
>A stretch of road.
Yeah. That might be just a taaad bit of a disingenuous descriptor for the German highway system.
Traditional cars have their highest gear (or transmission ratio for a cvt) coupled with the speed limit (75 mph or 120 kph) so your engine revs at exactly the highest efficiency spot when running on that speed. I.e 2200 rpm at 120 kph. Also the engine needs to be designed to be able to throw a lot more than the cruise maintenance horsepower or it will take forever to reach that speed like a low cc bike.
Thus if you decide to redline your engine it would run much faster than the speed limit. If the resistance force doesn't change and you rev 5500 rpm you would reach 300 kph at that rev. The resistance will change (at that speed wind resistance skyrockets) and you still can reach 200 kph with a bit of effort.
I really wish you would at least have km/h somewhere. Either on screen or said after the m/h. I am European and sorry, but miles don't tell me anything and I get that cheddar is primarily targeting the US market, but it would be nice to at least have it on the screen for those of us who don't use imperial measurements.
Correct, I've only recently gotten used to miles and kilometers conversion. Still need to get used Fahrenheit and Celsius conversion. It's just America that uses these.
Speedlimits???
Germany: Hold my Beer!
That's hilarious that the video says the government is hesitant to get involved followed by they give out 41 million tickets in the US yearly. Lol I think the money speaks for itself on the hesitancy
Actually there use to be states that had no posted speed limit during the day on certain roads but unfortunately Montana was the last holdout of this by gone policy of reasonable and prudent speed limits, no limit if not seen as a danger, until the state's Supreme Court struck it down as it put the decision of what violated the law in the too subjective hands of anyone who had a badge or gavel (and we all know how bad actors be hustling) making legislators put a fixed limit on roads there for the second, and so far last time, in 1999.
All that when they could've just implemented a better, federally-regulated driving test and recurring testing requirements that makes sure people know how to drive
I don't want anything that's going to hold back the car during a pass. "You have reached 75 mph, now I'm going to make you chill out on the wrong side of the road for longer by reducing the power."
It’s not the cars that are dangerous, it’s the people.
That statistic is B.S. about speeders killing people is 1000xs off. Its 0.00125 that's 0.012% not 25%! It's less than 1 in 1000 world wide.
So why can't we just have an autobahn away from cities? Seems a bit silly to mention it and never question why we don't apply their practices here, Germany has lower accident rates, a really engaging highway system, and on parts of it they can go as fast as their car will carry them, why wouldn't we ask why speed kills in the US but not in Germany?
Another potential reason is that it makes the car last longer cause you're never stressing the car with what it can't handle
Unless you're purposefully not shifting to higher gears and hitting pedal to the metal to reach speeds there will be less wear and tear on the parts of the car
I remember in the 90’s Electronically limited top speeds were pretty common… usually around 110 / 120. They were a way of limiting the manufacturer’s liability for car instability at excessive speeds. Is that not a thing anymore?
I knew a guy that had to speed up to 100 mph in a 40 mph to get away from someone shooting at them.
A friend of mine consistently goes 15 to 20 mph over the speed limit. At least you’re in Texas if you’re caught going less than 20 miles an hour over the speed limit you can just go to defensive driving and get the ticket taken off your record, or hire a lawyer.
Cars should never be limited. The only governors that should be applied are on vehicles that’s suspension and tires are not setup for those speeds and literally cannot handle it. We don’t need EV self driving cars that follow the speed limit to a T. 30 MPH limit backroads are meant to be driven as fast as your car can safely handle, the highway should be traveled between 70-80 MPH for commute and 80-90 MPH for long distance travels. Which most of us follow that way of driving anyway. Limits should only ever be religiously followed when traffic is congested, the weather is bad (rain, snow, hail, ice etc.), during road work, school zones, near festivals/parties or downtown locations where pedestrians are crossing the road continuously. Otherwise the speed limit should be a suggestion.
I would be the very first person to sign a petition for speed limits to be changed to speed ranges. Neighborhoods would be 20-25 MPH, business would be 35-45, main roads would be 45-55, backroads should be 40-50 with the same “sharp turn slow down” warnings, 2 lane highways should be 55-70, interstates/freeways/highways should be 60-90. And you should only ever get a ticket on the highway if your speed exceeds 100mph. But as we all know, Americans aren’t smart enough or driver capable at all to be able the legalize the ‘Speed Range’.
It bugs me that the subtitles don't match the actual dialogue.
Illegal !
Autobahn : *am i a joke to you* ?
If you look at the fine print, torque and horsepower values advertised for vehicles are usually at the 5-6 RPM engine range.
I no longer drive due to eyesight issues, however. my last car was a 2009 Corvette. With great joy, I once took it up to 141 miles an hour on the local Interstate. After I wet myself, I slowed down. My guess is that the card probably could have gone 180. No apologies here.
I drive a semi truck for a living, all these modifications to the roads to make them "safer" means that my 9 ft wide 75 ft long 13 1/2 ft tall 80,000 lb truck doesn't have the room necessary to make a turn.
Those narrow roads gave my friend the ok to side swipe 12 cars with his simi truck.
Montana has the highest speed limit at 90 mph. Montana had no speed limits until the mid 90’s
I'm a US citizen who doesn't own a car and sees no reason to own one. My legs work perfectly fine, and get me places that cars just cannot go.
There are actually multiple highways in multiple states here in the U.S. which have limits of 85mph.
What if there were a variable speed governor which varied depending on where you are? It could permit fast driving in certain areas and restrict it in others with high risk.
It is perfectly legal in some countries for your car to go 120. Germany’s autobahns are a prime example.
The way I found out my old suv didn't have a governor was by speeding to get away from a tornado I hit 137 mph. My suv did not like that speed and had trouble staying in the lane. Never gone that fast since
in germany some cars are limited at 250kph/155mph now
Simple terms: cars are designed to go faster than the speed limit that way when you drive the speed limit the engine isn’t overworking to cruise at that speed. MPG. If you designed a car to go the speed limit only it will be overworking to maintain its max speed.
3:20 this is the answer. 41m tickets of revenue for not capping the speed limits on cars
It's not the car manufactures responsibility to install a speed limiter just because people are so dumb that they will not listen to the speed limit.
How about make the drivers better not the cars slower.
And this is why I never fall for the government's "if it would just save one life" argument with gun control. They could literally force car manufacturers to govern their cars at 85mph and save millions of lives overnight.
I love the custom speed limiter that you can set yourself. I think its just an extra button on the cruise control.
Wow...2001 Volvo XC70 TURBO AWD
130mph +...
(Had to let out bad suspension)
two passengers in Atlanta on 85south vs 2020 Nissan Maxima I think only seen the back once.
To beat a high insurance rate buy a 4 cylinder and do an engine swap to a big block V8. You still only pay the insurance rate of the engine listed in the VIN number.
germans: whats a "speed limit"?
Limiting cars in Europe us stupid because the chances they are driving on the Autobahn is very high and being able to drive no more than 100mph or something would suck.
Europe is huge ,the autobahn is only in germany , the chances of a European car driving on the Autobahn is actually very low.
@vasopel Nah, many Europeans come here for vacation, and Germany is a transit country for people who want to go to Denmark, Sweden, etc.
@@Platinscar most tourists don't came to germany with their cars,and those that do...most are towing a caravan...so how are they gonna drive fast on the autobahn? :-D
As someone who drives on the Autobahn almost every day, I've seen all sorts of license plates on regular cars.
@@Platinscar really?
Cars shouldn't be limited or caged up. Regardless of whether cars are force-speed-limited by integrated tech, people will find some way to crash or have an accident. However, more tech that can assist the driver to prevent accidents and not take away all the driving away from them would be best. That's just my opinion. What happens in the market could be something else and may be undesirable to car guys
My car has a speed limiter. I was driving at 69mph on the M1 as I passed a junction the limiter read 30mph which was the limit of the road going over the M1 but my car slowed and I was rearended and had to prove it was the limiter and not me brake checking the car behind It took me over a year to get compensation from car manufacturers.
Most every vehicle, in the US, is speed limited. Like in the video, it's typically 110-120 mph. One good reason are tires amd another is instability at high speed because trucks. For some reason, people like to cheap out on the only thing that connects the vehicle to the road. Many of which don't have an understanding of the kind of difference good rubber can make.
Host mentioned he lost his license. So now he hates cars. 😂
Was the early 90s when i imagined speed lumit signs sending signals to car cpus to force the engines to run at posted speed
A perfect example of this is the grand national it has a 85 miles per hour limit but the car can go faster
The day speed limiters become standard in the US is the day tuners will start making even more bang.
One thing that I just gotta think and ask is how are there not as many accidents as you would expect in a city like Salt Lake City? Anyone who has ever driven I-15 through the Salt Lake valley knows that everyone does at least 80 MPH (128 KM) at a speed limit of 65 MPH (104 KM), yet accidents will happen on that road but that's a 15 MPG difference, but there's just not as many accidents that happen when people go that speed. In fact I've noticed more accidents happen when there's traffic jams that'll end up only going like 40 MPH (64 KM) so if anything that road crazily enough is safer even though I personally think it's one of the most dangerous roads in America.
Nobody should be punished with death for the crime of wanting to get from point A to point B.
We need to rework our whole transportation system to reach that goal.
I'm already irritated that my cruise won't engage at 100 and I have to manually do it.🤣
If 45% of people regularly drive 15 mph over the speed limit, then based off the way speed limits are determined in the US, the speed limit should probably be raised.
So what I understood from all of this talking around the subject and mentioning something about it in between - cars are made this fast because of people who want to go fast and car companies don't want to lose them as customers, even though they are the smaller part of customers, right? Correct me if I'm wrong. But in case I understood that right - once again humanity's intelligence levels have peaked! 😒 Let the killers be killers, why stop them? They have the right to choose to be killers, right? It's a free society, right? 😒 Street racers and road ragers determining the car market, great! And the rest of us have to just suck it and die every now and then, I guess. Collaterals... What's a few lives taken by their cars when they print millions making them, right?
As a petrolhead, I'm actually not super against speed limiters. I modify every car I've ever had to push its limits, and I spend a lot of time testing every upgrade and tinkering to hit that sweet spot every time, then I use that extra power responsibly, not on a crowded highway or city street. But some people are just shit drivers.
it depends on where you are. In Germany, many parts of the Autobahn (~highway) are without speed limit, so you can go as fast as you want if possible
no limits, I would choose to buy an older more functional car, than one that tries to tell me how to drive.
(speaking as a dude who gets told they drive like an old lady, who hasn't had a ticket in 10+ years)
Sure, buy an older car with less security features, less maintained and less up to legal date, just because you can't stand security features you supposedly never use.
If you never use it, shut the fuck up, get the new car, and if you really do drive like an old lady, you won't even notice c:
Good, buying used is better for the environment anyways.