• Tolstoy@lemmy.world
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    On the other side, Germany has TÜV with a mandatory vehicle inspection every 2 years with some exceptions for new cars.

    They check vital components for road safety and won’t allow the car to be on public roads when it’s not fixed within a month. And it’s not like your tires have no rest profile anymore, it’s like you have to change them when they’re at 1,6mm… recommended is to change at 4mms…

    Some “Prüfer” are chill but sometimes you won’t pass because your winter tires you were drivimg for 5 years, are 0,3% bigger than the allowed ones in the registrationpapers… at least I heard.

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      we have this every year in slovenia. you have to pass a technical inspection then register your car

      my mom’s car failed bexause her handbrake was 11% less efficient than new (limit being 10%). she had to get it replaced and then the car passed perfectly with 0 issues stated

      i’d rather do this shit than have some jerk driving around with a car thats about to fall apart and maybe not have a working brake

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      Doesn’t Germany also enforce vehicle separation so people aren’t driving too close to each other on highways? That and passing on the left.

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        Yeees. But some of the guidelines are confusing. So the basic rule is that you have to keep a “2-second distance”. This is the distance you vehicle would travel in two second without breaking. The Formular is 2x(v²/100). But at lower speeds its a completely different calculation. And when you are waaay faster you are supposed to leave half your speed in metres as a gap. Then there are separate rules for fog and long vehicles and multiple vehicles that drive in a row on one lane roads and all that.

        There are also rules for the distance you should keep to the cars and especially bikes next to you and they are different depending on if you are in a “place” or outside of one :)

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          That formular is wrong. The correct formular is (according to the official TÜV theory test questions):

          2x(v/10)x3 (well technically they only calculate it for 1 second so I added the 2 infront).

          That is, at the same time, slightly more than half your speed meters.

          Your formula looks like the formular for the “Bremsweg” with a “2x” added infront but thats not how it works because time is not a variable there…

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            Wait no. So I’m Shure I got the Formular wrong, but there is one that is specifically for the distance covered per second. And of course time is a cariable because how else would you define speed.

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              Yeah, that formular “(v/10)x3” gives you the meters you travel in one second.

              Your speedometer tells you how many km you travel per hour (km/h) and using that conversion you get the meters you travel per second (m/s).

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        Is that not a thing in most countries? Tailgating cant be legal in most countries, right?

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        I know, but sorry we’re miles apart from each other. I’ve seen “street legal” cars in UK which will get you in jail in Germany xD Tbh I don’t mind those restrictions but some are way over the top here