Changing speed limits or a rigid limit at 130 kilometers per hour? According to an accident researcher, experts advise on this.
According to an accident researcher, experts in Berlin are more likely to discuss changing speed limits than a rigid limit at 130 kilometers per hour.
With variable message signs “a traffic control center could control the traffic in a targeted manner, for example by lowering the maximum speed limit if necessary. And if necessary, even down to significantly less than 130 km / h, ”said Siegfried Brockmann, Head of Accident Research for Insurers (UDV), the t-online Internet portal. “In the end, we could benefit more from this than from a rigid limit of 130 km / h. You could also make a speed limit positive. But you also have to be prepared to spend the necessary money on it. “
How exactly Tempo 130 would affect road safety has not been researched; there is little secure data. “From a scientific point of view, there is no one who can say what will actually bring it. Tempo 130 is therefore more of an arbitrary speed limit than one that can somehow be scientifically argued, ”says Brockmann. “Unfortunately, we only know for sure from science: If you drive more slowly, the stopping distances are shorter and the crash energy is smaller.”
Politics and business are currently discussing the introduction of a general speed limit of 130 kilometers per hour on motorways. Green parliamentary group leader Anton Hofreiter told the “Handelsblatt” on Wednesday that, in his view, the “safety speed 130” would increase safety on motorways, reduce noise, pollutants and carbon dioxide emissions. CDU boss and Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet, on the other hand, spoke out against a speed limit of 130 to the editorial network Germany (RND): “Why should an electric vehicle that does not cause CO2 emissions be allowed to drive faster than 130? That is illogical. ”Dpa
