Title says it all.

Last time drove a car on the autobahn was summer of 96' so it had been a decade. This time I spent only about 24hours (total 2000km+) on the road but have not encountered any major problem, especially traffic accidents.

Wonder... The German Autobahn has become safer? Or am I missing something?

Come to think of it... In fact, there is neither broken guardrails nor black tyre marks. The road surface doesn't show its age and the μ appears pretty high. Believe it or not, at least I've had no problem with doing 230km/h+ on a wet surface(special thanks to Michelin).

As for local driver's behavior, everyone seems to have fun with accelerating to at 210km/h+@ rather than crusing at 220~260Km/h+. (For the record: I'm used to seeing in the past is the latter). So, exceeding 220Km/h have been rare. The only time I got smoked is, a silver AUDI RS-4 driven by a man(mid 50's) comes up from my behind and no sooner he floors the gas pedal than figured out that I am playing with the governor. Although he is gone without saying 'See Ya, it's good to know that 'they' still exist. Maybe I'm feeing a bit nostalgic.

An interesting thing is that Dollar shuttle bus hit 180Km/h on the motorway. We were not in a hurry though, seems that this is one of their courtesy services.



:Edit to add (Here's 2 unsolved mysteries. Any information would be appreciated)

-As I'm heading East on A4, all of a sudden everyone started to slow down at around Rothschönberg. IIRC, it was a slightly inclined area. At first, thought it is just a traffic jam. I however had no guts to ignore it so synchronized my speed with the other's to see what happens. I saw a police officer wearing a yellow jacket wandering the roadside but not sure he's been doing a job or looking for an Euro coin. Anyway.. What was that, actually?

-As I'm about to approach an intersection, all of a sudden a taxi in front of me hit the brake and pulled over to drop off the passenger. A train is running the next lane so I'm forced to stop my car in the intersection. 3-5 seconds later, the taxi started to move and I followed it. So what? Well... the very next moment, a traffic camera on the roadside gave us a yellow flash, respectively. Looks like I got caught on the camera(yellow light running?). My mistake!