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Originally Posted by Nidge
And cause major tailbacks, if you have one car doing 50MPH the car behind him is doing 45MPH if you've got quite a few cars following the car at the back will be stood, this is caused on the motorway when you see the matrix signs saying 50MPH, it will cause loads of tailbacks because it's causing a knock back effect with the traffic.
If they upped the speed limit there's be no tailbacks whatsoever. Do they have tailbacks in Germany?
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That's not true at all. The reverse, in fact. Tailbacks in heavy traffic, where reduced speed limits are in effect, are caused by people ignoring the reduced limits, screaming up behind someone who is obeying the reduced limit, and then slamming their brakes on. The act of sudden braking causes a feedback of heavy braking right down the line of traffic that gets progressively more severe as it goes, until eventually it brings the lane to a standstill.
Anyone who spends any amount of time on the motorways knows that the safest place to be in heavy, moving traffic is lane 1, where the truckers know a thing or two about maintaining a steady speed. Try it next time you're out, and enjoy the feeling of cruising along steadily while all the t0ssers in their BMWs and Audis pelt along in lane 3 and narrowly avoid rear-ending each other.