Top speed varies by state, from 55 to 85. There are times, like merging into high-speed traffic, that briefly breaking the limit is necessary. It doesn’t have to be specifically 100 mph, just whatever works to prevent dangerous fools, like the one in the video, from taking needless risks with other people’s lives.
The way I’ve seen it done is with a thing that checks the car computer’s speed against the governor limit and when it hits or exceeds it cuts off the fuel injector until the speed decreases.
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Maybe not have the governor kick in for 10-15 seconds? It can reset after a minute or so. 10 seconds is an eternity in an emergency manoeuvre.
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Also, Nissan? iiugh, bottom feeder of Japanese cars.
Now, Infiniti-- that’s a car company.
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Then you really don’t know cars. The Nissan GTR is a legend. They don’t call it Godzilla for nothin’.
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The studies I’ve seen in the past state is that Autobahn accidents are fewer (better maintained roads, strict licensing, and well established protocol) but generally far more deadly (because physics).
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GPS doesn’t necessarily work in tunnels.
(I live near a long tunnel with average speed cameras, I normally use GPS to make sure I’m not speeding as it’s more accurate than the car speedometer).
From what I’ve seen, German autobahns (not all of which are unlimited) had a death rate in 2012 of 1.7 per billion vehicle km, which is about half the death rate of the US Interstate system.
Neighbouring Austria, which is culturally and economically quite similar to Germany but has speed limits on all of its autobahn network, has the same death rate on its autobahns as Germany does. And the percentage of deaths on German autobahns that happen on unlimited sections is the same as the percentage of the network that is unlimited.
(In general, limited-access divided highways are the safest roads per km travelled).
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I drive on German autobahns regularly. 200 km/h (about 125 mph) happens regularly but beyond that is difficult and too risky for my tastes. It is really rare to have enough of a free road for faster speeds to be drivable. There is much, much more traffic in Germany than in the USA.
I managed about 240 km/h once (about 150mph), and survived, but would not normally risk it. At that speed, you have cars and lorries who drive half your speed. You really need light traffic or you’ll kill yourself. An autobahn is not a circuit.
Also: large sections of the network are limited to 120 km/h (75mph) or lower.
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To be fair, you have trucks driving half your speed if you’re going 200 or even 180- big trucks in Europe are limited to 90 km/h. Although, of course, German law bans trucks from the Autobahn on Sundays.
By the time you’re driving at 240 or 250 (250 is the speed that most German manufacturers have a “gentleman’s agreement” to limit their cars to), your closing speed with traffic you’re overtaking is faster than you can legally drive pretty much anywhere else in the world.
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Yes. I can also attest that driving at 100-120 km/h and suddenly finding out after a curve that a large, massive object is standing still on your lane is not the kind of surprise I enjoy.
Never forget physics when driving.
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This one chuckles at your raillery, friend.
Some 20 years ago, I lost my license for felony speeding. That does tend to dampen one’s enthusiasm for speeding on public streets 
I could have gone to jail, but the cop decided against it.
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Yeah, how would I know, I don’t go to parties.
I’m told that there are people there.
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This paragraph makes no sense.
Despite the astonishing speed, it’s not the fastest that someone has driven on a road in Japan … that the police know about, at least. In March, a 41-year-old man was accused of driving his Dodge Challenger at 146 mph (235 kph) along a highway in Tokyo.
280 kph is faster than 235 kph.
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This is a really good point. I’ve driven almost that fast between cities on the autobahn and and those speeds, to me, combine the worst aspects of boredom and terror. If you’re in control, it’s really no different than going 100 kph but with the looming dread of knowing that one mistake and you’re toast.
The autobahn is like 2% of German roads, and even then, isn’t entirely unregulated with regards to vehicle speed.
Further, that only addresses half of the issue with excessive auto speed, the energy efficiency part is something that I wouldn’t trust to German forbearance right about now.
Kind of seems like there is an inverse correlation between wealth and common sense.
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