Say it ain’t so, Hans! Speed limits on the autobahn?
Experts estimate that in the next few years, the EU will impose a standard speed limit on all European highways, including the autobahn.
German politicians could beat them to it.
Growing concerns about safety and the environment combined with high gas prices has led to calls in recent weeks from across the political spectrum for a speed limit. “We have to ask ourselves what price we pay to live out this feeling of freedom,” says Josef Goeppel, a parliamentarian for the conservative Christian Social Union.
If Germany wants to up its tourism market for a year, they can announce speed limits a-coming a year in advance, so that visitors can flock there to clock the high speeds one last time …
(via Hit&Run (heh))