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I've lived in Germany for 10 years and been 250ish on the autobahn.
Australian roads are no where near the quality, smoothness, curvature and undulation specs needed for 150+
I could see maybe some places the roads could be 130ish. But only for minute stretches.
But as for driving standards, no fucking way. Eg you cannot have people in the far right lane "I'm going the speed limit" so sit behind me.
Stay left unless overtaking for a good 5 years first, then can think about increasing speed limits.
PS this only works on separated direction freeways.
There's an economic trade-off for everything. It's not that we can't have it happen, but roads like the Hume Highway and Pacific Highway will need to be completely redone with a widespread flattening of the road, gentler corners, constant surveillance of kangaroos and wombats on the road and a massive road maintenance workforce who can rapidly fix entire sections of the road.
This will require raising taxes or diverting funds, not worth it, especially when you have a road network that is at least 10 times the size of Germany, and with a quarter of the population.
Agree with the economic points.
Yes wombats etc would not be able to reach autobahns in most cases.
Germany is incredibly dense with roads and I'd say would have more paved highway KMs than Australia.
Thing is with the unpaved stuff in Aus you can often already do your 130+ cos nobody is around.
I've never complained about being behind a car that's doing the speed limit in the right lane. In fact, they're ideal because your get there in the fastest possible time using the least possible fuel.
A car in the rightmost lane doing the speed limit – by definition – cannot be an obstruction.
What pisses me off is cars with overreading speedos that think they're doing the speed limit. Everyone should check theirs. 100% of new cars are wrong.
I'd happily sit on 130 if that's the posted speed. That's about 4500RPM in top gear for me... which is probably not the best for economy.
What part of the "keep left unless overtaking" don't you like? 😅
I'm always overtaking a line of cars doing 98 in a 100.