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Translation from Dutch: Quotation: Brussels wants Europe’s top speed Uitgeven: 22 februari 2006 13:55 Laatst geijzigd: 22 februari 2006 14:01 BRUSSELS – MEP Barrot (Transport) studies the possibility to introduce European-wide top speeds. The EU countries have to match their high speeds to each other. “I can’t say what speed I want to introduce today,” said the MEP. “It depends on the inward speed. I want to bring together experts from the different EU countries and we can compare the laws. The MEP Barrot thinks to improve traffic safety. This would also mean that there will be speed limits on the German motorway. Nowadays, drivers on the German motorway can decide how fast they drive themselves. The German car companies of fast cars like Porsche and Mercedes Source (Dutch): Well, I don’t think at all about these speed limits. In Holland it is particularly frustrating that you can only drive at 120km/h over the highway, and in the west you can only drive 80km/h, which is monitored by so-called “Trajectcontrolle”, which checks every single vehicle at excessive speed. What is the case very quickly at 80km/h, certainly in the middle of the night when the highway is empty. (D) he Stasi could have seen something of this total surveillance here in Holland).The MEP gives the reason for the safety on Europe’s roads, does someone perhaps have comparative figures of the individual European countries concerning accident deaths? Because I believe the argument “higher speeds require more accident victims, or lower speeds require fewer accident victims”. And as EU critics, I have to say that I have a difficult question where the important facts are They themselves state that a speed limit has to be assessed very differently in the different EU countries, so I am of the opinion that the individual countries should also bear this responsibility themselves, without which the EU fizzles in between. Tempo limits in Germany, the only country where I can regularly step out of car’s, that is simply unprecedentable. Thoughts, anyone?

Ladies and gentlemen, I am a motorist of the older generation (43) and therefore do not know the Internet so well. I have recently found my way into this forum. I would like to use this directly to put a question on the table. I would like to pull my wife’s defective used car to a car dealer about 15km away by means of a tow bar. Is this possible without any problems or is this already considered as towing (to which I am referring) What kind of roads (motor roads, motorways) can I drive in this way? Finally, the question arises, how old must be the one who steers the towed car? (as I heard this must not have a driver’s license) The background to this question is that I would like to have my 17-year-old son, who is currently in the middle of the driver’s license training, and so could gain even more experience. I hope for informative answers. I’ll stay with you, Michael.

Hello! For a student project, I will do an analysis on stone impact damage in windshields. I would ask you very much if you had a stone impact to leave me here only briefly your vehicle data (e.g. Golf 4, BJ.2001). That’s all I need. Then I can establish a statistic if the frequency of stone impact is supernaturally high in certain vehicle manufacturers (due to different manufacturing methods). – No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Hello, here’s a topic that some people will find provocative from the ground up, but it’s not my intention. Just want to know how you would do it “right”. So this is the following: Last Sunday I went to the sport, that’s about 35km of road with many long straights. After about 10 km I had a group of 5 motorcyclists in front of me, who drove so about 80 km/h. Most were allowed 100 km/h. In front of the group also a car driving the same pace. he got the impression, he stopped the motorcycles, but the motorcycle group did not overtake. Since I had not quite so much time, I wanted to pass. 5 motorcycles & 1 car to overtake was not in it, that did not give the view. Since the mopeds also did not keep the necessary safety distance between each other, I could not overtake them individually. After a roundabout the last motorcycle lost the connection to the group, the distance to the rest of the group was about 60m So I started overtaking. Then, when I was next to the moped, the driver gave up gas, pulled past me to the right again and closed with full throttle to the group, then to go back fully into the irons so that he didn’t shoot off his front man. While he braked, front (about 500m away) oncoming traffic appeared, so I broke off my overtaking maneuver. Since the distance between us didn’t get very large (my car goes quite well), I also had to brake quite hard, not to hit it. My question: How should you overtake slow (cruising) motorcycle groups if you are not left in between? As a driver, “fast” motorcycles are always expected to take consideration and leave room, but if you want to pass as a driver, it is not tolerated. Is it such a taboo to overtake a bicycle with a car? Or do you have to do this soon in the overtaking ban, since one-lane vehicles can be overtaken? Finally: I have nothing against s Chnelle or slow bikers, I’m one of them myself. But why is it so bad to let a car pass?