I don’t have a license or car. A friend of mine posted a story on IG driving at 300 km/h on the highway. I know it’s fast, but just how fast in terms of driving?
I rode a train going 300km/h, and it felt amazingly slow, compared to going 180km/h on the Autobahn in a car.
Lol, is he the one who just got 3 years in prison in switzerland?
If not, it’s enough to land you three years in prison in switzerland
On a highway you would usually go 80-120 kmh.
No easy way to imagine that kind of speed in a car for most people.
Here are some things and their speeds in kmh:
- human falling at terminal velocity belly down: 200 kmh
- plane right before touchdown: 250 kmh
- f1 racer: 320 kmh
- cannon ball being fired: 3000 kmh
- fastest baseball pitch: 170 kmh
Anyway, he probably has only a few more times of that before he crashes and instantly dies (and probably kills a bunch of people)
Don’t think they did, I’ve had some high performance cars and it takes time to get up to speed, need flat road and at that speed any other car is going to likely lead to a crash.
Most cars don’t even have the right gears to get to that speed, so I call BS.
M3 top speed is 250 Porsche 911 is 330
It would take well over 10 seconds to get to that speed in a supercar, and impossible in a normal car.
Unpredictable things happen at that speed.
Forget about braking distance. The reaction time is the difference between life and dying before you even know it.
I know of one example where a motorcyclist killed himself that way. Nobody knows how fast he was going but it’s assumed above 250 km/h, on a regular highway. Down the road is a cross section. A lorry was fully stopped at the crossing and preparing to turn right onto the highway in the same direction as the motorcycle. The lorry driver checked both directions and saw that the road was completely clear as far as the eye could see, hundreds of meters.
A split second later he heard a bump and pulled over to check if he had hit an animal or something. He found a massive hole in the back and the debris from a motorcycle. There was no brake marks or anything indicating that the motorcycle had even attempted to brake or steer around. The theory is that the motorcyclist might have glimpsed at the speedometer or something for long enough that he drove the entire visible distance before being able to even react.
Obviously he was a fault himself, but the point is that at speeds like this, you no longer have any capability to predict what happens next.
If your friend thinks that cool, he might as well play Russian roulette. At least that doesn’t put innocent people in danger.
In moon landing units that’s ~186 miles per hour, which is around three times the speed limit of an average American interstate highway. I would not expect the average passenger car to be able to achieve that speed, but there are sports cars that can. You’re probably looking at an uprange Corvette, some of the higher end Porches, a lot of Ferraris, Lambroghinis etc. Something Jeremy Clarkson would describe in an impressed tone of voice. It is my understanding that a lot of supersport motorcycles are limited to exactly that speed; most liter bikes have no problem powering themselves that fast, the question is maintaining control. If there’s a pothole or some sand or a slight curve, will the rider survive encountering it at 3 miles a minute?
Going that fast in a car, you start to wonder how long the tires are going to hold up. At its top speed, a Bugatti Veyron will actually run out of tires before it runs out of gas.
In New World landing units, it’s ~161 knots. This is very close to the VNE of a Cessna 172 Skyhawk. The Never Exceed speed, top of the red arc. Go faster than that and the airplane is just going to break. It’s the approximate cruise speed of a Beechcraft Bonanza and the higher end of landing speeds for a Boeing 737.
That is almost 3 times the highway speed limit and roughly 83 m/s if I got the math right. At that speed the car will travel 40m on average before you even press the brake pedal, then the average car will take probably about 1s (which I think is conservatively low) of emergency braking to stop (or almost), traveling another 83m.
Just the right speed for high-speed trains.
Formula 1 races average about 200kph, with a top speed of 375. These are the best of the best professionally trained drivers in multimillion dollar equipment tailored to them and designed to keep them (and others) safe at those speeds.
300km/h on the highway is essentially suicide by stupidity, not to mention manslaughter for whoever you hit. You are travelling fast enough that you literally don’t have time to react to something several hundred metres in front of you.
150 is really fast, 200 is stupid fast, and 300 is really fucking stupid fast.
This is basically Formula-1 race car/small aircraft speed.
Regular cars will only get you to, like, 160-180 km/h at full gas.
In other words, this is insanely fast and potentially very deadly.
At speeds above ~150 km/h, even on a well-organized highway, you won’t be able to control your surroundings and have to rely on sheer luck to survive, unless you’re a professional race pilot on an empty road. Also, unless the car is equipped with special gear for improved road grip, it will become uncontrollable because it will literally start to hover a little.
At speeds above ~150 km/h, even on a well-organized highway, you won’t be able to control your surroundings and have to rely on sheer luck to survive, unless you’re a professional race pilot on an empty road. Also, unless the car is equipped with special gear for improved road grip, it will become uncontrollable because it will literally start to hover a little.
sorry but no. maybe i am biased since my sole experience is driving the german autobahn, but i drive well beyond 200km/h on a regular basis, which i consider travel speed when the road is not too crowded. cars that could go faster than 250km/h are usually limited to 250km/h. traveling at that speed is loud and a bit stressful, since the difference between you and other cars traveling at lower speeds becomes too high. they will not see you coming before switching lanes and braking distances are very high. but cars dont randomly switch lanes unless tying to pass others cars and you can predict these situations and slow down.
you will not hover, you can control your car normally and the only required luck is to not have others actively try to kill themselfes. you dont need to be a professional race pilot and dont need special gear (of course cars can easily be underequipped for these speeds, but you dont need special gears.
do you mean speeds above 250km/h or speeds above 150mp/h? if that was just a typo i would argue a lot less because those speeds stop being fun to drive, but are also accessible for normal drivers with normal street cars (with enough power of course, but you see plenty of those cards on the average parking lot in front of any supermarket)
I agree 300 km/h is insanely fast and stupid on public roads.
The rest of your points sound like you live in 2005.
A lot of regular traffic nowadays will get you to 200 km/h. Above 150 km/h is not relying on sheer luck, I’m sorry that’s just not true. Yes it’s really really fast and really illegal, but you maintain control given a few conditions.
I’m also not sure what you mean by “special gear for improved road grip.” A car’s shape naturally somewhat resembles an aerofoil, so yes you generate lift at high speeds. Most modern cars account for this by aerodynamic design, including but not limited to things like diffusers, spoilers, splitters, and the shape of the body itself. These help keep you planted along with good suspension and good tires. I’m certain that just about any car made within the last two decades will not become uncontrollable past 150 km/h unless you’re driving on a really wet surface.
About three times the usual speed on a highway.
And a highway is about three times the allowed speed of a school zone.
So roughly the same as driving highway speeds in a school zone.
Fastest I’ve driven was 200km/h and it felt like if I’d hit a pebble my car would’ve taken off. 300km/h is airplane speed.
Yeah, in my younger days I got up to ≈210km/h once. I can’t believe I was dumb enough to do that.
At 200km/h, you’re passing the cars around you as quickly as you usually pass stuff stationary by the side of the road. It’s insane.
The car felt planted and controlled, but still. One slightly wrong move and I would’ve been flying off an embankment or killing a fellow motorist.
Doing it on empty highway at the middle of the night was scary enough for me.
It really depends on the car. Newer cars and better brands will make 200km/h feel like 100km/h.
I have driven a car from 2000 that would completely start rumbling at 160kmh, compared to a car from 2022 where 220km/h felt like I was driving on clouds.
Yeah, the first time I tired it I got to 160kph on a -03 hatchback Corolla and it felt like the mirrors were about to fly off. The 200kph I did few years later was on a -01 Audi A6 and the ride was smooth as hell and the car felt very planted. It’s just that at those speeds even low bumps feel like ramps.
I got my 1996 Renault Laguna up to 200km/h and it felt and sounded like the engine block was about to jump into the passenger cabin.
Least concerning Renault engine
My first nice car was a bmw from 2008, and driving through germany was definitely an experience. 260km/h felt like 120km/h in my first car.
That’s so true. Drove my fiat panda with 180 (dunno how I got it there. It was downhill for sure) and it was absolutely terrifying.
Later drove an Audi A6 with 230. Obviously fast but nowhere near terrifying.
Another time a company Ford Mondeo (Diesel) 240 and it felt like sitting in a train.
I want to stress that I never kept those speeds for long. It was rather seeing how fast I can go in a setting that allowed it with minimal risk for everyone involved. I must say that I don’t see the thrill in driving that fast. Everything is so exhausting to pay attention to.
People thing the german autobahn is nice because you can drive as fast as your car allows you to. In reality it’s nice because you can just drive as fast as you are comfortable to. You can pay more attention on the road because your eyes aren’t glued to the speedometer
Yea, the renault twingo of my ex-fwb felt borderline dangerous above 130kph while in my workplace’s Mercedes B-Class, my comfortable cruising speed is roughly 160kph with 200kph still feeling perfectly in control.
My car rumbles at 100km/h and it’s a 2016 model. It’s just cheap, what do you expect?
That is very fast. So fast in fact that at in only 1 hour you will travel 300km.
About three times the speed limit of freeways in Australia.
About the same as the top speed of a Honda CBR-XX Blackbird, which at production in 1998 was the fastest production bike in the world.
That’s ridiculously fast even for car enthusiasts.
The percentage of consumer cars that can even do that is infinitesimally small.
