As far as I understand the main difference is the drivers training before you are allowed to get your license. The U.S. system isn't worth the paper it is printed on, compared to the German system.

Very true. My 17 year old just got his German license in January. That was a long, time intensive process. My husband continues to “train” him in all sorts on conditions, including a safety training course he just completed yesterday.

@@Quotenwagnerianer very true. The german drivers licence is not only very expensive but also very intense. 15 years ago the theory part had about 1000 question, to pass the test you had to know random choosen 40 questions. Practical part includes city driving, driving at night and driving on the autobahn. you need to have at least (mandatory) 24 hours of practical driving to qualify for the practical exam. I learned everything about the car. how a clutch works, which fluid goes where and so on. A first aid course and gettiing your eyes checked is mandatory. in total it costs me about 2000 Euros..

It took me 6 months to get my driver's license. mine cost 2100 euros.

Well, when they were on the way back suddenly in a winter landscape I thought to myself ... the tires play just also a role. Of course, an experienced driver knows that and drives accordingly more carefully. I guess that's the reason why Tanner was suddenly able to overtake so many cars.

That is so kind to hear they did that! Wow! We agree they’re amazing people. 😊 we are actually headed to your country here in July so stay tuned!

Don't speak for all of us Dean 👍🇬🇧

Plenty they could learn from us too, I drive there a lot .

@@davidedbrooke9324 For sure, we have the same share of morons like everywhere else and at times, I feel that they have group gatherings on the Autobahn. ;)

There are friendly and unfriendly ppl in every country. I can assure you that there are quite a lot not really kind ppl here in Germany as well. Greetings from Munich!

I can't stop laughing 😆😆😆poor guy😉

You should've warned him at least😭

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@@whyparkjiminnotridejimin Warned him? He should've known that Autobahn = Pedal to the metal. (If it's free speed zone of course)

@@darkiee69 born and raised in Germany. I very much wouldn't appreciate sitting in a car with a driver who decides to go 240 without checking with me first. there has to be a certain level of trust involved

thanks man! :)

I like to visit autobahnen in Deutschland to drive faster. In Poland with 140km/h limit most of people driving 160-180km/h on the left lane, if you drive over 50km/h over limit you can lose license for 3 months.

It just takes you or another driver to f*ck up for a split-second with you going 200 km/h to create a horrible and deadly accident…

All it takes is a free road and a radar app to drive more than 200

Couldn't agree more.

​@@lcdh5601die wenigsten dt.Autofahrer machen;wenn sie schnell fahren;auch nichts anderes,als konzentriert zu sein.

Yes, but I think it has to be simple so that everyone can have a car and there are places (like in Germany too) where you can only get too by car and not public transportation. Maybe the US should try to offer an upgrade to the drivers license with more safety training and a higher or no speedlimit for holders of this license.

@@dave_sic1365 That would not be wise, since it makes traffic entirely unpredictable. In Germany, you KNOW that on the autobahn when there is no speed limit, you have to take into account that a fast car may pop up in the rear view mirror at any point. You are also legally mandated to drive in the rightmost lane you safely can to keep lanes to your left as clear as possible for fast movers. Conversely, if you have a 75 mph highway in the US, understanding that for some people, that 70 mph doesn't apply is problematic, as it makes for inconsistent standards - all the more if standards don't apply per type of vehicle. And since driving on the right isn't mandatory, either, that's a recipe for a fast mover suddenly being confronted with a much slower car in the left lane after a curve.

@@dave_sic1365 Just a system designed for dumb people and smart people. I'm always terrified of others when driving in LA when visiting. People seem stuck up, know no rules, too arrogant. It's just pure chaotic and scary. A bit like India. Meanwhile in Europe it's organized, calm and collected. It's really like two different worlds.

I've lived here for 30 years and the driving culture has really deteriorated during that time. Speed limits have gone up; Speed enforcement and reckless driving enforcement has gone way down; even as vehicle power has gone up; and people are just generally nastier than they were. It was a clearly safer driving culture than the UK in the 1980s. It's clearly much less safe now. And it shows up in accident rates and insurance premiums, once very low indeed, now clearly higher than Western Europe. The improvement in vehicle safety registers itself in Europe as lower damage and much lower death rates; in the US, as a flatlining death rate and much higher damage rates.

in us traffic law is also rightmost. but it's not enforced. most americans are shitty drivers@@ohauss

Yep heart is going into "Melting mod"

It is adorable!

100% sugarcube :3

Oh my gosh 😳😂 So funny!

fake! if you do not recognize a difference between 140km/h vs 225km/h you should not drive.

@@ainsoph5339 Not necessarily... I'm used to driving cars that start vibrating heavily at around 130-140 km/h. Then one day I was allowed to drive a Jaguar.... after some time I realised I was always on the left lane because I was constantly taking over other cars. A look at the speed - 220 km/h. You really don't feel it...

It depends on the car. In some cars you feel in danger with 120 km. But in others this feeling comes only at a higher speed. We drive a small Mercedes. I am used to go 150. If I go faster, the steering weel starts becoming juddery (a little bit shaky). It seems to tremble. So I do not go further. - Might also be, it depends on the tires. However, I once drove a rented car, where the car kept being calm and controllable at higher speeds. It really depends on the car, if you even realise the speed.

@@MartinAmbrosiusHackl Yeah, I grew up in Germany as my father was retired from the Airforce and worked for NATO. He had a Saab 9000 Turbo and I mostly remember it looking amazing, being really fast, and also constantly being broken (like shutting off and engaging steering lock in the middle of a backroad S-turn at 50 kph). He eventually got sick of it and bought a 1998 Volvo V70T5 wagon, (T5 being Turbo 5 cylinder), and I remember that car had rather stiff suspension, but as you went faster it felt smoother. At 110 mph it was smooth as butter. The fastest he ever went was 135 mph (216 kph) before he was just like "Nope, too fast." h was comfortable going between 110 mph and 120 mph, the car was perfectly fine with all of it. My Mom had a 2001 Honda Civic EX on the other hand, which after 80 mph struggled to accelerate and would top out at 110 mph. It was a bit rough at that speed too and sounded like it was going to explode but was perfectly reliable doing it. She had a knack for making under powered cars go over 180kph (like the 80 hp golf she had prior). At that speed though you could let off the throttle, wait a second, and stomp it again without feeling the car jerk at all. It just didn't have the power. When we moved to the US in 2007, I was blown away by how terrible everyone drove, but also, my Father kept accidently going really fast without meaning to. Only got one ticket and he got lucky. he was clocked doing 24mph at over the speed limit (I think he was going 84mph), shortly after he realized he was going 110 and hit the brakes. It was night time and Christmas eve and he was coming home from his brother's house which was a few hours away. (we live around Atlanta, GA). I only know of 4 or 5 accidents for the 13 years I lived in Germany, and 2 were fatal. Only two were on the Autobahn or a freeway. Just being Atlanta for a year I'd see a dozen accidents personally a month and the fatality counter they show on interstates here is always a little over 1000 by the end of the year. it's shocking. It's important to know your limits and not exceed them once you figure them out. That is essentially the key to driving safely when you can go as fast as you want. The Lack of Respect for Speed in the US is terrifying as well as the lack of awareness.

The floaty suspension is typical for American cars. They want a comfortable couch on wheels for "cruising".

@@MartinAmbrosiusHackl If a Mercedes Benz starts to feel unsettled at 150 km/h, then there is something wrong with its technology. In the steering or the chassis, tires, track, wheel bearings etc.!

Ja, das denke ich auch und ich glaube die meisten Deutschen denken auch so, aber wenn es erlaubt ist, wird eben mal ausgefahren was das Auto hergibt.

@@Hyazinthenarrangement Ich hab versucht meinen E46 auf der A8 auszufahren, bin bei knapp 255 km/h vom Gas gegangen. 180 - 200 km/h ist für mich persönlich eine angenehme Reisegeschwindigkeit (Wenn der Verkehr es her gibt), aber das war dann doch zu viel. Und der hatte noch Luft nach oben. I tryed to push my old E46 BMW to its max., stopped at 255 km/h. 180 - 200 km/h is my favorite travel speed (as long as u can go in case of traffic) but that was to much. And the car was able to go faster.

120 km/h in Spain

100 in Netherlands

We have 3 cars and all cruise comfortably at 200kmh. But traffic and speed limit rarely allow this sustained speed. My fastest car tops out at 268kmh so 200 is like a lazy drive. Love not having to watch the speedo and enjoy the ride 😊

Agreed. 200 in a nice BMW feels more comfortable than 100 in an old hatchback.

I drive 190 in my little polo and its fine to me. I mean of course a bmw would be better but still. I was actually surprised it goes this fast 😂 then i also did 220 in a last gen touran

i had this happen when i was going 230kph, its quite strange when you think youre going fast and this flash passes you by lol

And look as much in your rear mirrors as looking forward.

Yes we agree! Great tip! We are headed to your country this summer so stay tuned for videos from there! 😊

@@OurStorytoTell Yeah ! 😃 Welcome to Belgium.

Mostly I prefare the middle lane, driving between 140 km/h and 180 km/h it's most relaxing.

Lol these comments 😂

Go Augschburg! Lol

There is some truth in your comment, but also: it depends. I have a lot of experience driving long stretches on the German Autobahn. Driving fast is one thing, driving safe another one. The difficulty lies in combining these two and it includes a lot of experience. When I still had cars capable of going fast enough and did have the experience, I could see if a truck was going faster than the one before it and reduce my speed and be alert if that driver pulls out; I also could assess if I could trust a driver by looking at his/her tail lights. If I needed to brake, I was not attentive enough. That excludes situations that were not predictable, e.g. somebody hit the brakes before me for reasons I was not able to foresee. Generally, I never drove faster than 180 kph. *) At faster speeds you really don't gain time. You need to drive a distance of 105 kilometers at 210 to be five minutes faster -- compared to 180. And, your next fuel stop will be sooner. So maybe you arrive later if you drive faster. -- Later I changed to driving 120 on all distances that I could manage without refueling, going faster only if the travel destination was farther away than a full tank could cover and I needed ot refuel anyway. Meanwhile my car is more efficient at the shorter distances I travel, but it would consume more gas at 150 than my previous car did at 180. *) Yes, there were a couple of instances when I went faster, but they were few. Like, I wanted to experience how it feels when the car meets the limiter at 250. Another one when I sped up to 210 to not slow down a faster car too much until I found a gap on the right lane that I safely could go into and then we both agreed on 210 for the next 200 kilometers each one taking turns in leading and following until our ways parted. This was an execptionally relaxing drive given that speed. There were about a handful more, all had their reasoning and no reason was to arrive sooner nor was it time pressure.

300-400 km/h? I'm calling BS on that.

@@FFM0594 Not speed, distance! 😉

@@FFM0594 read, understand, think, write.

@@Felix-fy7ki Mother, your, ****, go.

125mph 😂 we just getting warmed up

Great tips!! Thanks!

Might be wishful thinking but it's actually not true. I'm driving a Mercedes for 9 years now and the difference between going 120 in Switzerland and an avg. of 180 in Germany is maybe 1,5 litres on 100km. By far the most gas you use when driving in a town at 50 or sometimes 30 by the way, which is why in every car brochure there's normaly two figures for fuel consumption, one for inner city driving and one for intercity driving (the first one is usually much higher). Reasoning behind it is you don't use fuel by driving fast, you use fuel by accelerating. So in a town where you have to stop often e.g. at traffic lights or crosswalks and have to start accelerating again, your fuel consumption is mugh higher than if you drive on the Autobahn where you rarely have to accelerate a lot to keep your current cruising speed.

@@CondorDrake Well then all the experts and also my experience is wrong and your Mercedes is right. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Must have some special engine and chassis that defies physics. But I guess that's why they're expensive. Congrats. 👏 What can I say other than that your a pretty lucky guy if you can manage to ride long distances on the german autobahn without having to break and "actually" always really averaging around 180 km/h. You'll still be a brick against the wind with that speed. That's just science. And overall most people don't drive Mercedes - or even if, alot of them drive slow. So the majority doesn't even drive faster than 160 kmh. They either drive in the middle or the right lane. And every legit source I know of, supports this. Max. 140 kmh. Faster than that is just inefficient. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Aww so fun you have a 3 year old! It goes by so fast.

@@OurStorytoTell oh yes... 😍

Thank you! 😊

From 130 to 225 K - think that is fun: let me say, you need super duper car that doesn't shake or even reach that speed without struggle - secondly your concentration level and situational awareness has to be super good, another point your steering wheel and handling stiffens up. And you can't keep up for long in general.. its no fun man ... it is just ego boosting knowing you can't afford to make a tiny mistake. Good luck with driving though.

@@eyewaves... drove that speed with an Audi A6.. That car did not shake at all at that speed, but I agree that you need a good concentration level. I would never do those speeds when it’s not possible though. There was not a lot of traffic at that time.. Besides when I reached that speed I almost directly went down to about 160. In my opinion it was fun and not ego boosting.. but what would you know.. you weren’t there..

We agree about that. How fun you did such a big road trip though! That sounds amazing! 😊

@@OurStorytoTell it WAS amazing! One of my best trips so far, along with the other USA trip in 2017 and Japan in 2018.

Yea, no. Gas mileage only goes up with speed until like 50 or 60 km/h. After that it begins to fall, because air drag increases exponentially.

"Driving faster gets you to your destination sooner. Compared to 120, at 150 every 40 kilometers you gain five minutes, at 180 you gain five minutes every 30 kilometers. But you might need to fill up and lose some of the preciously gained time." Puts things into perspective very well, Sir. Very few trips are urgent enough to warrant driving that fast, and at 180 kph you save about two and a quarter hours on a five hundred kilometer trip. When you consider the amount of extra fuel you use and the toll it takes on the driver and the car, it isn't worth it. Just stick to a speed that is suitable for the conditions, put the cruise control on, and let the car drive itself (not literally, of course!) You'll love it, the car will love it - and your wallet will too.

It’s amazing here. I assume you’ve been to Germany?

@@OurStorytoTell I have never been unfortunately, but I am half German, learning German. It has been my dream for a while to move there.

I don't know why those lines slashed through most of the text but it wasn't my doing or idea. Sorry that this happened.

if you put text between two -, the comment section strikes this part out.

It was actually 88 mph.

We think they are! 😊

Thanks! We agree!

Hi Tia! No, we haven't been skiing here yet, but we did go (more like attempted to go) sledding in the Italian part of the Alps. I can't really give you a good recommendation of where to go since we haven't really been. All we know is that there are many options! If you're open to it, we have heard that Austria has some nice ski resorts worth looking into :)