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Germany's answer to speed limits: a polite shrug and open throttle.

means A German expressway, famously known for sections with no enforced speed limit for cars.

from Straightforward German compound: 'auto' (automobile, borrowed from Greek 'autos,' self) plus 'Bahn' (path, track, or way — the same root seen in 'Eisenbahn,' railway). The network was planned and expanded in the 1930s as a symbol of German modernization, though the popular myth that it was invented purely for military troop movement is largely overstated — civil planners had been proposing high-speed roads before that era's regime seized on the project.

speed limit
officially none on many stretches
advisory speed
130 km/h, but it's a suggestion
total length
over 13,000 km of asphalt freedom
safety record
statistically safer than many limited highways
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