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Originally Posted by mental4astro
Though I'm sure my car would be able to handle 160km/h, I doubt too many cars would, as a population of cars, not models.
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You'd be surprised how many cars can reach that speed actually. When I moved here in Oz I was a bit foot heavy on the gas pedal because I was used to it. My first ticket was a speeding fine. Well I was still in overseas mode... The speed limit is 130kph on freeways back there. If you drive at that speed with everybody else in the flow it's fine and quite comfortable even in a small car. Over 150kph you need a solid sedan but it's still ok. Over long distance trips it would help with driver fatigue as well I reckon. And Oz is big .... very big. Driving from A to B in the country at 110kph is a real pita.
Most of the deadly accidents I know of back home happen on country roads in tree trunks because people speed on these two. But on the freeways it's unheard of. Unless there's a massive pile up in fog but that is extremely rare.