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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!
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Likewise Spain with the AVE. Cars are speed limited to 130 max I think, so it looks like the cars are stopped.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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god, driving at 200km/h is so insane
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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.
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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.
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Ya, I also wish those slowpokes would get out of my way…
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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 ^^
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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?
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Not a whole lot, then. But then again, even 160km/h is faster than the average speed you'd travel at on the Autobahn
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I posted this comment already elsewhere in this thread, but lemme quote myself:
The ICE's max speed depends on model and variies from 250km/h to 300km/h. These speeds can be reached on:
- Hannover-Würzburg (280km/h)
- Mannheim-Stuttgart (280km/h)
- Oebisfelde-Berlin (250km/h)
- Siegburg-Frankfurt (300km/h)
- Köln-Düren (250km/h)
- Rastatt-Offenburg & Schliengen-Haltingen (250km/h)
- Nürnberg-Ingolstadt (300km/h)
- Ebensfeld-Leipzig/Halle (300km/h)
- Wendlingen-Ulm (250km/h)
There are more of these tracks currently under construction:
- Stuttgart-Wendlingen (250km/h)
- Bashaide-Rastatt (250km/h)
And many more are currently in the planning stage:
- Hamm-Bielefeld (300km/h)
- Oebisfelde-Berlin (300km/h)
- Ulm-Augsburg (300km/h)
- Gelnhausen-Fulda (250km/h)
- Frankfurt-Mannhein (300km/h)
- Bielefeld-Hannover (300km/h)
- Nürnberg-Würzburg (300km/h)
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Sometimes? How about this decade old French record?
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Do all trains in France always drive that fast? If not it's also sometimes, so...
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