David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)
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So they don't do that in Spain.
I mean, in most places, except for the German Autobahn, they get pissy if you go twice the speed limit for all sorts of fair reasons.
I'm not advocating that you should be going much more than that.
But there are certain special roads where you can open things up and no one's in harm's way.
And that's an incredible sensation.
And I do think that some of those speed limits actually are kind of silly.
And I'm not just saying that in a vacuum.
In Germany, they have the glorious Autobahn.
And on the Autobahn, there is no speed limit in a bunch of segments.
And they're so committed to their speed limitless Autobahn, which is, by the way, very weird of Germans.
They usually love rules.
They usually are very precise about it.
And then they have this glorious thing called the Autobahn.
There was a great case a couple of years ago where a guy took out a Bugatti Chiron, went 400 kilometers an hour on the Autobahn, and he filmed it and put it on YouTube and posted.
A case was brought against him because even though they don't have a speed limit, they do have rules that you can't drive recklessly.
And he won the case.
He wasn't driving recklessly.
He was just going very, very fast.
I've done the Autobahn a couple of times.
My wife and I went on a road trip in Europe in 2009.