17:29 "I didn't even notice that." We did, damn Mittelspurschleicher - both cars.

If you drive 120 Km/h in a 80 Km/h zone, you got more than a Ticket, you got probaly a driving prohibatin for some months and points in your register.

Americans probably have little concept of just how dense traffic on the Autobahn tends to be. He is driving through the ass-end of nowhere on a Sunday in November. That's essentially as free as it gets. But Germany is an international trade hub and a LOT of that is transported on trucks. Whatever you need to go between Western and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and the South, it's going through Germany. And that means trucks on the Autobahn. Tons of them. Everywhere. As mentioned, Sunday means no trucks. That's like half the traffic gone already.

As a German I'd like to point out that during the Truck part wtf are they driving in the middle or left lane when the right lane is empty?

When you get caught by Radar/Camera , the Letter goes to the owner along with a picture of the driver (the passenger is censored for privacy reasons). If you didn't drive yourself you have to provide proof that you didn't do it (maybe easy based on the photo) but you have to provide the name of the driver. If you fail to provide the name, you may be forced to keep a logbook for your car for the future, which may be a huge hustle and comes with fines if it is not kept correctly.

On tunnels: An accident with fire is a severe issue. The Montblanc tunnel fire in 1999 killed 39 people. Even though this accident was not caused by high speed (a transport truck caught fire) it clearly showed that you especially don't wont any accidents in tunnels. Also, research has shown that curved tunnels are safer than straight tunnels.

Sunday driving ban: Commercial work is prohibited on Sundays unless it is in the service of public safety, medical care, tourism, gastronomy and agriculture. Only trucks with perishable goods or with special permits are allowed to drive on Sundays

Ryan, I have to disagree with you. The systematic disregard of any rules by a large number of drivers in the USA is definitely not a sign of relaxed driving, it is a sign of stupidity. Rules that the majority of drivers adhere to ensure that they are safe alongside and with each other on the roads. The ridiculous driving schools and tests in the USA are also not suitable for ever achieving this level of safety. -- And one more thing: Ryan, when you get a letter from the authorities telling you when and where you were speeding and how much too fast, there is usually also a (front) photo of the vehicle License plate and the driver can be identified. “My grandma drove the car” doesn’t work!

Since May 1956, i.e. for well over half a century, trucks have been banned from driving on Sundays and public holidays in Germany. The reasons for this and other driving bans include noise and environmental protection as well as the observance of Sunday rest, but also to relieve congestion on the roads, especially during the vacation season.

German here. 1) Driving works well here because we stick to the rules. Lane discipline is spot on. No-one brake checks other cars. People indicate in timely manner. Just stick to the rules. It's not hard. 2) Trucks don't drive on a Sunday because work is prohibited on Sundays and public holidays. 3) If a speed camera catches you then you get a fine with a photo in the mail. They know who the driver is. 4) We have a lot of traffic on our roads because Germany is transport hub. We're in the middle of western Europe. A lot of people pass through to get around. 5) The roadworks can be annoying but I prefer it to the bad roads in other countries. 6) School holiday refers to a general school holiday, not Sundays in particular. Many parents take leave from work during school holidays so the whole family can go on a vacation. Hence more traffic during school holidays. 7) Parking spaces are not smaller, they are normal sized. For normal sized cars :) FWIW I drive Autobahn everyday. Generally I drive around 120km/h. Occasionally I'll push it to as high as 200km/h. Not often though. No need to drive fast just because you can.

"We americans, we don't know all the rules." .... while overtaking on the right side.

7:11 --> "Only get in the left lane to pass" while casually having overtaken multiple vehicles from the right since the start of the video. Love it.

A car fire in a tunnel can be really really dangerous. About the tickets: the owner gets the ticket. If there was a different driver you have to denounce that person and there is some work involved We are densely populated and also in the middle of Europe. All of europe passes through here.

Germany´s land fits around 27x in the land of usa while having close to 1/3 the population, heres you traffic answer :D

The usual speed limits you will encounter on the Autobahn are 120, 100, 80 or 60 km/h. 120 or 100 are mostly applied at large merging areas or when there is much traffic or bad visibility. 80 or 60 are mostly only used in construction areas or on / off ramps. It's very common to have electronic signs above the Autobahn that can display and change speed limits or other signs according to the current conditions. BTW 60 km/h is in effect the MINIMUM speed for the Autobahn, and only vehicles that can go faster than that are allowed to even get on the Autobahn. Even if there is no "hard" speed limit posted there is always the advisory speed limit of 130 km/h...

There's always a questionnaire included to your speeding ticket. If it wasn't you, you report the driver. But if you try to outsmart the system and say you don't know the driver, your case end up at court and they force you to a driver's log for quiete some time

"Roads in good shape"... looks at literally any bridge in Germany at the moment...

20 years ago, there was a terrible fire in the Sankt Gotthard Tunnel in Switzerland because of an accident. 11 people died. I don't know if the speeds in tunnels have been lowered since then, in the past the speeds in tunnels were higher in Germany. But in other countries, such as Italy and Switzerland, they were much lower anyway. It wasn't long ago (Februar 2024) that a Polish truck driver in the Rennsteigtunnel noticed that his vehicle was on fire. To prevent something like this, he drove his burning Truck 6km more through and and then out of the tunnel. A real hero.

About the "there‘s no traffic in the US" part I feel like it makes sense because in germany, when you drive on the autobahn you almost every 5-10 minutes have an exit where it leads to some big and small towns or sometimes even just into the middle of nowhere where a big company is sitting and a lot of trucks are drive to it. I remember being on a trip in canada and when i looked out the window on a highway while being on a long drive you don‘t have too much to see except fields and forests and a few single houses maybe or something like that. Might just have been me cuz that was the only time i was on a trip in NA but at least that would explain it somehow.

Only 57% of the Autobahn have no Speedlimit. The rest is with Speedlimit.

In Germany, speed cameras in tunnels sometimes do not have a red light flash but work with black light. The official reason is so that other road users are not frightened. But in reality, other speeders should not be warned by a red flashing light. And with regard to traffic density, it has to be said that this is sometimes so high. That there are also distance control systems with cameras that pose a challenge even for German drivers. Because it can be really expensive and if it happens too often your driving licence will be gone at some point. At first only for a limited time. And if you don't learn from it. Your driving licence is revoked until you have passed the MPU (medical psychological examination) and this can cost several years and several thousand euros.

Tickets go to the owner of the car. The owner has to make sure that the driver follows the rules. And the photos are damn brillant, too.

Pro: Sunday driving ban for trucks BUT: Lots of 'Sunday drivers' ,(Sonntagsfahrer - people who only drive on sundays) on the Autobahn creeping along. It's not always fun to drive fast on Sundays... Greetings from northern germany ♥️

It's not just Germany where trucks are banned on the weekend. Ryan has so little knowledge of the EU that he tends to believe that when something is banned in Germany, it is uniquely German.

I live in Germany and have driven in the US and, of course, in Germany. If you are circumspect and recognise the rules of the road I really never thought there was so much difference that it was worth making a video about it.

As a German I've to wonder, why did this guy permanently pass other cars on the right lane. Or was he driving in England?

2:25 if you're going from the north end to the south end or other way round, you can save some hours. From east to west you can save about an hour or two. BUT you have tons of traffic jams throughout the entire country that can cost you the time you just saved. The recommended speed for unlimited strechtes is 130km/h (80mp/h) ... Construction sites on the Autobahn are between 60-80 (35-50mp/h) depending on the amount of space left on the road. Most Stretches are limited to 120km/h (75mp/h). 5:18 we and some neighbour countrys had some serious accidents inside of tunnels. Also, if you crash inside tunnel 1. you crash harder and decelerate faster as if you were in an open area. 2. chances are higher you hit someone else because there's less space. 3. after the crash you'll probably block the entire tunnel keeping others from being able to flee 4. smoke will fill the Tunnel, killing people and making it harder for search and rescue teams 5. if you're in a tunnel that's over a mile long (most of the tunnels are around that lenght or more) you really don't want to crash or someone else crash into you. 7:40 guess it's all about the speed. If you mess up on American Highways you hit each other with differences of about 10-20 miles and will end up in the Hospital with some broken bones. On the Autobahn, if you go 100 and mess up, chances are high someone behind you comes up with 300 and you both are literal dust. Also we are quiet aggresiive towards people who recklessly endager others. No one cares if you kill yourself (besides the guy who have scratch you off the street). If you endanger others you get treated like shit. 9:20 yes it's the density, you have like 300 million people on the second largest country in the world compared to 80 Million people on an area roughly the size of Montana + Idaho + Wyoming 10:00 it's the speed again, you simpley need good roads to drive 300km/h +, also it decreases wear on the cars. 12:40 Trucks aren't allowed because of the noise they produce (that's why they're also limited to 80km/h). Here are a lot laws around noises, partwise because of the density of the population, partwise because permanent Noise can lead to severe Mental issues. 13:45 it's rare but there some stretches without shoulders on the autobahn, usually these areas are limited to 120km/h. Also if you leave the Autobahn, it's incredibly rare to have shoulders.

If you go 120 in a 80 limit you'll not only have to pay, you'll also get rid of your drivers licence for some weeks (I think 40 over makes two or three months). The cameras take you from the front, so they see your face. If you seem to be lucky and your face is somehow hidden (many drivers have a CD dangeling at the mirror for exact that reason) you might have one shot free - but then you have to write a so called 'Fahrtenbuch' what means a protokoll who is driving the car, time, start- and end point, te start and end kilometres and so on. If you get get caught by avoiding it - the fine is even higher. If you get fined to often you might loose your licence completely for a year or two, sometimes longer, and you'll have to redo the complete process in driving school, what costs about 2000-6000€, depending on what you need. (Car, motorbike, truck - thats all seperated and you'd have to redo it all). Not only that- you also might have to do the so called MPU (Medizinisch Psychologische Untersuchung). To stand that you'd better visit some classes, and - thats additional about 1500 to 4000€ in preperation. Btw. it's very very rare, but if you do get some certain judges it might be enough to collect many parking tickets to get sent to the MPU. Some more about fines: If you are a so called 'Berufskraftfahrer' what means a professional driver who earns money by driving, your fine doubles. Also if you did the 'crime' by purpose your fine doubles. So never ever tell the policeman you've been so fast because you are in a hurry! And if you get pulled over and the policeman asks 'You know why we stopped you?' - No you don't! ;-) Btw. the 'Sonntagsfahrverbot' does not contain trucks with sensitive food that has to be cooled eg. AND there is the possibility tu buy an expensive special licence to drive anyways. You might call it a highway robbery and you wouldnt fail ;-)

Tunnels usually don't have an extra safety lane on the shoulder. That's why speed limits are lower. Also sunday is rest day. No working on sunday.

Same in Italy: limitation for trucks during weekends

On the subject of tunnels. If something happens in the tunnel, traffic is usually slowed down or even stopped long before the tunnel by camera-monitored electronic traffic management. Particularly as far as fire protection in the event of accidents is concerned, there have unfortunately been tragic events in Europe that have led to these regulations.

In Switzerland trucks aren't allowed to drive on public holidays, sundays and at night from 10pm to 5am.

In Germany tunnel are constructed for a speed limit of 100 km/h as per law, this is due to safety reasons. Especially when driving into or out of a tunnel visibility of the road ahead may be bad and as precaution the speed is reduced (which is also why it is advised to take of your sunglasses so that your eyes adjust better to the different light) . Older tunnels which aren't up to modern standards or are having some technical issues will have a speed limit of 80 km/h or less. Also accidents or technical problems with cars and trucks are a bigger safety concern while in a tunnel, due to mentioned visibility, sometimes lack of cellphone service (which results in people on the road searching for an emergency station) and the restricted possibilities to evacuate people in cases of fire.

Yes, some stretches of the Autobahn don't have a shoulder (or "Standstreifen"), but instead occasional "emergency bays". But he was specifically referring to lanes in construction zones on the Autobahn. Often the left lane is so narrow, semis and even wider cars are not actually allowed to drive on them (maximum 2 meters including side mirrors). You can be fined and in case of an accident usually get fault for any damages caused.

Just the fact he is recording this while driving and keeps looking at the phone instead of the road, he should lose his license. He is a passenger, good to know. The way the camera is set up it seems like he is driving and overtaking everyone on the middle/right lange 😂

07:35 - it is the old Prussian principle: "Gehorche damit man Dir gehorcht!" Obey to orders so other people obey to yours - in a militarised society the military disciplin also streches out to the civilans

6:10 You can about 1 times say it was someone else and not say who it was. But after that you have to have a logbook with every drive ahead.

While trucks arent allowed on sunday, i drive every sunday and still encounter lots of trucks, usually from neighbour countrys, so its not as good as its sounds since not everyone is following the rule

16:35 have you ever passed a long "box" style truck while you were at least 20km/h faster than the truck? You can usually feel the side-pulling forces of the air draft that's created between the vehicles, and that effect would get amplified in a narrow tunnel. That's one of several reasons why Autobahn tunnels are almost always limited to 80km/h. Oh, and fun fact: pretty much all tunnels are intentionally NOT built 100% straight. They at least have slight curves at the entrance and exit to avoid literal 'tunnel vision' (or getting blinded by sunlight outside the tunnel)

I have seen him overtake other cars on the righthandside, as far as I know that is prohibited in Germany too

the fact that most trucks are not allowed to drive on Sundays and on statutory holidays sadly also means that many truck drivers have to spend these holidays (including e.g. Christmas/...) on resting spots on the Autobahn instead of being with their families

For the Question at 3:50 you're about right. 120 Is quite usual but on some strechtes there are now digital signs above the road. There it changes depending on traffic, weather and other circumstances. In bad weather like thick fog I've encountered 60, hard raind often drops it to 80 and high traffic mostly around 100.

Not just Germany but Italy and France as well. Not sure about other UE countries but I think it is the same for all. In addition lorries cannot stay on the middle lane if not for passing a slower vehicle then must use only the right lane. In Switzerland right lane only..

In the US, photos are always taken from behind because they only have plates on the rear end of the car, right? Ryan may not have known that we have plates on both ends and photos are always taken from the front. Which BTW poses some problems with catching two-wheelers.

Trucks are allowed to drive on Sundays if the cargo is refrigerated or similar, or any private truck drive is allowed as well

100k Subs - Congratz

The officially "recommended speed" on the Autobahn is 130 kph, which is also the base speed limit if there is any. At dangerous sections (known for accidents) it can go down to 80 kph, and some sections have variable speed limits depending on weather and traffic density which can go down to 60 kph and up to no speed limit at all. Tunnels can be dangerous, especially if constructed some years ago as safety rules for tunnel construction were not so strict as they are now, and if some accident happens there, emergency rescue can be difficult. 6:40 The automatic speeding camera will take a photo showing license plate and driver from the front. The owner of the car gets the ticket and can either accept it or try to prove that the photo does not show them. In that case they could however be hold responsible for lending their car only to people they know as responsible drivers and also to identify the driver (but in some situations they could get away with not recognizing the driver). 8:20 For most Germans it is part of being socially responsible to follow (certain) rules - they follow those rules because they consider it the right (and smart) thing to do, not out of fear of being caught. Also following traffic rules makes for more safe and more relaxed travelling. 12:00 Only certain trucks are allowed to drive at the Autobahn at Sundays and public holidays, and those only at certain hours (for example urgent deliveries of certain goods). It is part of the Sunday as constitutional day of rest. 13:45 There can be short stretches of Autobahn missing a full shoulder lane, especially older parts or sections under construction. But there are also Autobahn-like federal expressways which do not follow the same standards as the "real" Autobahn and can have no shoulder lane at all, for example in tighter spots around cities.

At Sunday, always trucks with products that can be rotten, can drive at Sunday. With a special licence!

07:48 For my opinion the difference between German and Amercians: The USA has not a "real" democraty, so the people do not think "this rules comes from the government I voted for" and "the rules are made for protect us". They think that this rules are made for punishing and make money. In Germany we pay tax for all streets and the Autobahn. If there is a speed limit, it will be a reason for it. Protect people for noise at night time ore there is a point upcoming with a lot of accidents in the past and so on. That might be the reason why we have a lot of changeable traffic signs.

Most parts of the German Autobahn are without general speedlimits. However, these unlimited stretches often have digital traffic signs that can be set from a central control center. Hence speed limits other limlitations and guidance information are adjustable and can be tailored to cope with certain situations like high traffic volume, crashes, construction sites, bad weather conditions on the Autobahn

For the tunnel thing, your eyes need some seconds to "adapt" to the dark. Higher risk of accidents.

Hey, Ryan, is there a way that you could turn up your volume for the videos so that they match your volume more? They are usually so quiet/soft compared to you lately. Thanks. I watched him passing lots of cars of the right? Or was it a mirror image and he was a passenger? But then why did he look like he was watching the road like a driver? USA has the same Sunday Driver expression.

Trucks not being allowed on Sundays and holidays in general has two reasons. One is the same reason shops are closed on sundays, which mostly religious folks really appreciate these days. Other things go back to emissions reduction (noise is an emission as well) and there sure may be some other reasons. Those are by the way bans on trucks overall, not restricted to the Autobahn. There are only exceptions within a certain range from a port or a station were trucks can be loaded on a train, for perishable goods, for just the tractor with no load or exhibition vehicles and if there are possibly some written exceptions for certain deliveries. Oh, fire trucks, federal agencies (emergency services in general) and the military are excempt as well.

6:40 generally, the driver IS responsible for speed violations, but the owner will get the citation. either he pays himself (and accepts the penalty points), or he has to name the actual driver and have the fine reassigned.

The speed rule in Germany is not that you are allowed to drive as fast as you can, but as fasts as you can drive safely. The driver need to consider way more than just the maximum speed of your car. The nice thing on Autobahn is ... there is no oncomming traffic, no traffic lights, no crossings, no slow traffic (min. 60 km/h), no bicycles or pedestrians. Speedlimits usually start with 120 and incremently go down to the target speed limit (120, 100, 80, 60, 40 [yes that can happen]). Without speed limit you still have to expect an obstacle out of sight that forces you for a full stop (accident, traffic jam etc.). Stopping can be really difficult when travelling with 200 km/h. Now calculate the braking distance in your head (you have 1 second time to do that).

5:18, I guess its because the guardrails at the side of the Autobahn are elastic and if a car crashes into them at a high speed the driver of the car gets less harmed, than he would get if he´d crash into the concrete wall of a tunnel at the same speed. Another reason could be that the sight in the tunnels are worse than on the road so you see cars wich have glitches worse and may crash into them because you cant react anymore

Trucks carrying loads that need to be cooled (fresh produce, frozen goods, dairy or meat products etc.) are allowed to drive on sundays. When the drivers have to stop somewhere to take their break, they have to leave the cooling engine on the truck running all the time so their load doesn't spoil. It is already wasteful on a regular 10-12 hour break and would waste a lot of fuel if the driver clocks out saturday 5 PM and is allowed to continue on Monday 00 AM. So if you encounter a truck with a hardcase trailer on a sunday, it's most likely a load of food that needs to be somewhere by monday morning. 😂

it also has to do with the cost of getting the drivers license as well as how long it takes to get it.

I guess the amount of traffic really depends on where you are. As Europe as a whole is a bit more compact, there is a lot of city-to-city traffic. And because cities aren't as far apart as in some places in America, you barely ever get far away enough from all cities to notice a big decline in traffic. When it comes to trucks not driving on sunday, that's partially due to labour laws and partially due to noise laws. Most jobs aren't allowed to work on sundays (obviously there are exceptions), and this includes truck drivers (again, with exceptions). When it comes to the school holidays on sunday, I think he refers to sundays within holiday periods. This can often result in high traffic due to families coming back from vacation, as the kids need to go back to school the following day. A great example for this are trans-alpine routes during the easter holidays: For example, the Gotthard road tunnel in Switzerland gets completely clogged every year. It's a combination of the weather (during that time the weather north of the alps is often still somewhat cold and foggy, but warm and sunny south of the alps), the fact that roads through the alps aren't as numerous as in the flatlands, so they are natural chokepoints, and the fact that due to school holidays many families want to go through at the same time (usually different regions have slightly different dates for school holidays, but you can't exactly do that for easter or christmas)

In Germany, tickets go to the car owner. Only if there is a personal penalty like points or temporary driving bans, they ask the car owner who was driving.

i am confused... there something wrong - either he is in a left-lane english vehicle and the video was mirrored, or he is not on an autobahn and passed an ambulance on the right (wrong!) side as you may only pass on the left.

The Sunday driving ban (and public holiday driving ban) for trucks was introduced in the 1950s, on the one hand to reduce noise during Sunday rest but also to relieve traffic on the motorway, especially during the holiday season. There are exceptions to the Sunday driving ban for trucks that transport fresh products, e.g. milk, fruit. A truck can also drive on Sundays without a trailer if the tractor unit weighs less than 7.5 tons.

About the "sticking to the rules" part There DEFINITELY are drivers here as well who are NOT sticking to the rules or simply are just pushing their luck but it‘s like … if i would have to take a guess i would say about 70% are your normal day to day people who just drive, minding their own business and not being in anybodies way cuz they just wanna go from A to B, 20% are young drivers who are a bit too anxious and either stick to the rules very strictly or just don‘t know any better and then you have the 10% who are your 40 year old business guy in a black bmw or mercedes or whatever who‘s constantly going 220, only sticking to the left and immediately getting angry at you if you do anything to interrupt him I mean at least every time i went onto the autobahn it seems like i see these amounts of people on there. Not too many who are breaking the rules but there still are some.

On normal autobahn without construction the speed limits possible are 140, 130, 120, 100 (less common) and then in case the road is wet usually 120, 100 or 80 (for a short distance where there is risk of aquaplaning). In construction zones it's usually 80

There are some rules, but not a number of overwhelming rules. Obiding the rules means to respect the freedom of a social community, so that everyone may live in peace. The freedom is always the freedom of someone thinking differently (Berthold Brecht).

On cultural difference: I spent quite some time in the states and I've always worked with children. In the US there are rules that are strictly followed, mostly concerning food or illnesses which would not be followed as strictly in Germany. In Germany little kids are taught road safety rules as they are more likely to walk (I've had kids walk to school in the US as well but they usually just had to cross a couple of roads or walk alongside one because roads tend to be mostly straight and in blocks so there are only few rules they need to learn. Plus if you visit friends even if you stay within walking distance to your school it's going to be the same couple of rules really, while in Germany if you go to the opposite side of school there's going to be new streets and new rules. (Sidewalk yes/no? -in the US there's rarely sidewalks and it's the same rule with or without. Cars parked on the side? Football field near the street? Anything obtructing the view to the street? Can cars see you walking or do you need to be careful? Traffic lights/stop signs... On the other hand Germany is getting there but it is a horrible place for the disabled. Accessibility is a huge problem. I was really happy to see all the ways the US cater to all kinds of disability and they go above and beyond to cater to your needs. But that positive attitude towards the disabled also means more entitled Karens.

@03:26 : It's 80 or even 60 in some places. I took the A73 (used to be the Frankenschnellweg before it was an Autobahn) last weekend on my way to Munich and found myself suddenly in Nürnberg, before I found my way back to the Autobahn. The city limit in Nürnberg for the A73 is 80. In Berlin it's either 80 or even 60 in some places. Of course there is no default speed limit, so on the Autobahn it's always indicated by speed limit signs.

Ryan, if you would have to spend like 2000€ to get your license then you would think different about losing your license during to tickets :D In America the effort to get your license compared to in Germany is pretty just like nothing... And to get back your license here in Germany is connected to a lot of bureaucracy!

Congrets to the 100.000 Abos 🙂 Nice!

Truck traffic in Wisconsin on Sundays was also forbidden back in the day, except those transporting perishable goods. But now it is common. When the Shopko store chain opened they were protested by the Knights of Columbus for being open on Sundays. Now many stores are open.

On stretches, where there are no shoulders, usually the speed limit is also reduced to 120 km/h for safety reasons. It is also usually announced with the sign: "Wegem fehlenden Seitenstreifen" (because of missing shoulder)

With regard to the speeding tickets: there is a central federal database by "Kraftfahrbundesamt" (it's similar to the DMV) in Flensburg where all the license plates and people with a drivers' license are registered, and where your "penalty points" for traffic offences are stored. If you get too many points, your license will be revoked. (There are actually offences which when committed and getting caught your license will be immediately taken away by the cops. Iirc that can even happen for certain speeding offences.)

Most speed limits on the Autobahn range between 80-120 kilometres per hour. Also before construction sites or traffic jams, the speed is being reduced in steps, like from unlimited to 120, than 100, than 80, sometimes down to 60. Which reduces the danger of slowing down suddenly quite a lot.

In germany is the holder of the (Car registration) the first what becomes the mail. And the gouverment cam looking at the Photo of driver License if you was the driver or not. Also with the ticket you can become driving restriction, not to drive 3 month.

The speed limit in tunnels is for safety purposes... imagine hitting the wall in a tunnel with high speed. You barely would get out of there alive. Also a fire in a tunnel which could happen would be a huge problem for all other involved.

An Autobahn regularly has to have a shoulder, for sure. But there are some small stretches here and there that have are exceptions. Regular country roads do not have shoulders most of the time.

Rule of Thumb: If there's no extra lane for stranded Vehicles (no "Seitenstreifen") The Autobahn will not be unlimited Speed. Because a stranded vehicle would block one driving lane and that might be fatal. Tunels usually have no Seitenstreifen since extra lanes are expensive. There might be extra security reasons too of course.

14:03 German parking lots are often not even big enough for German cars. You often have to squeeze carefully through your slightly open car door to avoid damaging the neighboring vehicle. American size cars would take 1,5 times of space of german parking lots and may then stand another meter over the length. :-) We already have a few car enthusiasts who have bought American vehicles and they stand out in German supermarket parking lots, sometimes because of the distinctive deep bubbling V8 sound. 😆

On the Autobahn if i remember right it is only 120kmh than 160kmh than 180kmh than infinity. And at construction sites you have some times around 30-80kmh.

7:55 the reason for the differences in following rules go back to the founding era of the United States. Just remind yourself who came to the US or the Thirteen Colonies back then. It wasn’t those who were successful for the most part, it was people who either did not fit in, did not want to fit in, didn’t have a great future in sight back in Europe, had criminal records, people looking for religious freedom and also people who wanted to make a lot of money. All these different groups of people usually had one thing in common: they either followed their own set of rules or wanted freedom in some or another way. Following rules in a vastly unpopulated new country doesn’t really make that much sense in comparison to a densely populated small country. For decades and probably even centuries a lot of people in the US could simply do whatever they wanted to, there were no downsides in not following rules for the most part.

Bro, if police would catch you whith smartphone while your driving, ure fucked xD i mean 135€

13:36 What he says is right. The German autobahn doesn't have a shoulder everywhere. The requirement for fast driving is that you have an overview of the situation and can stop safely in front of an obstacle. You may only drive as fast as you can keep to.

Nice how he overtakes the Ambulance on the right lane. It is Prohibited in Germany to overtake on the right lane (2:49 min).

Here in Sweden we call them söndagskörare means sundaydrivers

"Sonntagsfahrer" is from the time when most families only had one car. So usually the husband drove the car to work and the wife, who stayed with the kids, walked, went by bike or used public transportation. On Sunday, when he husband wasn't working, she could sometimes take the car. Since she didn't have much practice driving she was often driving a bit insecure and extra cautious and slow.

In construction sites on the Autobahn the left lane and sometimes also the middle lane are more narrow. So instead of having maybe 2,5 m you have only 2,1 m. So driving a car measuring more than 2,1 m from mirror to mirror on the narrow lane is forbidden. Nevertheless lot of SUV cars try to overtake a truck by squeezing between truck und middle lane divider, sometimes causing bad accidents. As there is a speed limit of 80 kmh or even 60 kmh in construction sites nobody should feel the need to overtake. But there is always this someone... And then there is no shoulder or emergency lane on the side, so causing an accident or your car broke down is a pretty bad situation.

In germany there is a huge group op people that get Paid to get the traffic Tickets or driving phorbides for you if you dont want to get a point and ticket, so they say that they driven. There are normal websites dor this like amazon

Yes, there are Autobahn without a shoulder and there is usually a speed limit of 120 Km/h

Speed camera which takes your picture can clearly reveal your face. But it doesn't matter at the end. With a ticket you have a form in which they're asking if you were driving or someone else. If someone else you have to put his data in form.

6:37 This was changet, nowadays the ticket goes to the owner of the car (in case there are no face cams), no discussion.. unless of course the car wasnt mark as stolen at that time or something.

Ticket goes to the car owner first place but with a photo of the driver, So you, as owner, can pay the ticket and accept the further punishment (if you where the driver there is no real possibility to avoid it bc of the pic). If you where not the driver and do not want to be punished, you need to name the driver, him being punished instead (bc of the picture he/ she will be identified).

Ryan, you'd be surprised how weird you're looking while driving into a speeding trap (Blitzer). Some weeks later you'll receive a nice and pretty sharp portrait of you at the wheel. Those systems are pretty well aligned to record exactly the face of the person driving the car. The owner will be summond only if the person driving wouldn't be recognisable, eg. by wearing a mask - that would have to be a mask covering more than just the mouth. About rules: maybe it's just the significantly higher population density. Just today I've read: the state of Texas is twice as big as Germany and has a population of around 30 million people. Germany has around 80 million. You actually gain freedom by following rules because if you and all others didn't follow rules you'd just bump from one crash into the next one, from one traffic jam into the next one. But it's not only population density. Our modern way of life is much faster than say 50 or more years ago. Interestingly our laws and rules didn't change very much. However we're protected better by seat belts, electronic driving assistants, more safety minded car design, better means of supervision, ... but also by people being aware of moving in much denser traffic than before and being more careful due to that experience.

My uncle once took the car of my granny and got into a speeding camera. A few weeks later my granny received a letter with the speeding ticket. My uncle of course paid it for her, but at least in this case the ticket went to the car owner, not the driver. I don't drive myself and no longer live in Germany for quite some time now, so I don't know if that would be the norm, but I assume it is...

Here in the Netherlands we use the shoulder as a third traffic lane at some hours during the day with high traffic flow, so you better not break down there ! Every kilometer they made a small parking spot if your car has some issues.

First: perfectly guessed. 120km/h are the correct speed limit, typically 😁 secondly: there is obviously the safety reason in a tunnel which is why you need to drive slowly. Also if you drive faster, the ceiling lights are going by faster, too which could possibly lead to a Epileptic seizure, provoking an extremely dangerous situation. That being said, tunnels in cities are mostly restricted on 80 or 60 km/h, while the tunnels I saw up until now on the Autobahn are 100 km/h which seems to be the maximum. The fast ceiling lights could potentially lead to a Epileptic seizure if you drive faster (said someone at one point to me, don't know the context on why it got to that point though), the risk of loosing control over your car gets higher, most tunnels in Germany are bending, even if it is just slightly and so on 😁

7:40 This is pretty much a historical development. The USA were founded in violent revolution and this has marked their anti-authority character ever since. Compared to that, Germany has for thousands of years had kings and emperors, and democracy is a very recent thing here (first time ever was likely the Weimar Republic, i.e. 1918-1933), and the system was not trusted very much due to the circumstances of the time. "Society runs smoothly if everyone follows the rules - provided they are fair" is thus a very German mindset because it so far generally worked.

Recently all the videos I play here seem to be kind of zoomed in, while they still play in a 720 pixel viewport, which means I lose about 120 pixels at the bottom. How can I fix that? TIA

We have much more traffic, cause it is more dense and we are also transit country. Since we are in the middle most goods in Europe cross Germany (east/west and north/south)

Hello Ryan, in Austria we have Section Control on some Parts of the Autobahn. It measure the Time driving a measured Distance with your Car. If the time is to short you are going to fast and get a Ticket.

When you get a ticket in Germany, you have the option to reply, that you didn't drive and give the identity of the driver, so the driver can be fined. I've heard, you can also say you didn't drive and don't know who did. But in a case like this the authorities could order you to keep a drivers log, where you have to track every drive and the driver. But as I said, I never checked the laws on this and never have seen such a case in reality. It's just something I have heard, so it can be wrong. But to my understanding the German laws expect you to know who is driving your car, since it's your car.