I don’t have a license or car. A friend of mine posted a story on IG driving at 300 km/h on the highway. I know it’s fast, but just how fast in terms of driving?

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    3 days ago

    That’s an American law, so vehicles weren’t faster than police vehicles, there was ways to remove the governor though.

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      3 days ago

      That’s an American law

      It doesn’t make sense an American standard would use km/h.

      https://www.theuth.co/why-are-many-cars-limited-to-250-km-h-maximum-speed/11102/

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      This limit at 250 km/h dates back decades and has origin in Germany.

      You:

      so vehicles weren’t faster than police vehicles

      Also you:

      I don’t think manufacturers are willing hobbling their vehicles.

      Article:

      They reached a gentlemen’s agreement to electronically limit the maximum speed of its models to 250 km/h.

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        Lmfao, too cheap to provide the right tires, so let’s make a cartel agreement to hobble our vehicles. Yeesh, that’s some wild rationalization to not just supply the proper equipment for the vehicle you designed….

        Thats worse than the American reasoning.

        So I just want to point out, that’s it’s not unusual for people to convert while discussing. 250 is very close to the metric equivalent (it’s rounded to it for this reason) of 160 miles. Which conversely is also double the speed limit of most states, which is what governers are usually mandated at.

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      That’s not true. Cars are normally capped at 250 km/h in Germany. But it’s completely legal to pay extra to get it removed.

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        So you need to pay to unlock the full potential of the vehicle? I don’t think that’s as good of a thing as you think it is.

        From the the link and what you’ve said here. They are limiting their vehicles for “safety” and then charging you to unlock it, and still need to pay for the tires they could have provided and skipped the whole paying us to make up for it?

        Good idea Germany! Wow everyone should adopt this…,