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> In Germany, you obey the speed limit

German living in Germany here: er, no. Typical is slighly more than +10%. If you keep to the speed limit, people behind you will get upset.

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Foreigner visiting Germany here: I ALWAYS try to keep to speed limit, sometimes 10% slower. You have well hidden radars and you can't use radar-finding apps (forbidden by law). Last time I was driving not strictly I had two photos in 15 minutes. If this makes you upset, drop the radars, I will happily drive 10% faster.

I was being descriptive, not prescriptive. Please obey the speed limits.

Germans were kind of late to the whole RADAR party in recent history (1940s). So now they are perhaps overcompensating a bit.

German living in Germany here: er, no. Typical is slighly more than +10%. If you keep to the speed limit, people behind you will get upset.

My one trip to Germany was in Stuttgart in the early 2000's, and it was my German coworkers who made that observation. The car ride I took seemed to corroborate it.

Has it always been that way, or has it changed over time?

It's been that way for as long as I can remember, certainly since before I started driving myself in '87.

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