Oh please don't talk about driving. I was taking the freeway E20 westward from the Zealand east-coast after shopping since we had plenty of time to catch the ferry and I wanted to see the Lancer we bought over 3 1/2 months ago, and whic according to the county yesterday will take 2-3 whole months more!!! My mother cried! Litterally! It was the man on the phone that was there when they saw how my mom could get in and out of our car and the person that OK'ed and he said he didn't know how the procedure went!!!!
130 kph, and twice trucks pulled in front forcing ABS-braking to stop from ramming them, once a road-train pulled in front (they're doing 90-100 although the limit is 80) and then when I'd established safe distance then the second solo-truck behind the second road-train the first was overtaking pulled in front of me!!! Appearently my safety distance is way too big when a 10-12m truck can pull out with meters in front and back, and that was still not 3 seconds distance as many say one should keep, that's nuts when even 2 seconds distance is enough for a big truck to merge in.
Then we finally got around after having a train of cars behind us (average speed there is 140-160) so it was full throttle in 3rd which was still pretty slow but at least the young man in the Golf GTI that was the first car behind us was taking it slowly, although they were all driving a lot closer to me than I did for the trucks. Then I kept in the left lane to overtake a truck and tourist-bus just a little while further, and guess what, the bus cut right in front of us just when I was getting close, and remember the two trucks? He could have pulled out a lot sooner so I wouldn't have had to stomp on the brakes at the last minute (he pulled out in the last minute, I started stopping as soon as I saw him pull out, unlike what other people would do). Then when I finally got in then a little later another Peugeot 206 overtook us and after his rear bumper was less than 5 meters in front of our front bumper (literally) then at 130 kph he cut swiftly in front of us, again on the brakes, then a big minibus overtook and he did the same with just 1 extra meters distance
Are people insane? They didn't even need to get out of the way of someone flying towards them from behind!
The news have said that more and more pedestrians are killed since the cars are faster and allegedly more safe so people drive like they are alone, and sadly that really seems like it. If someone drives out in front of them they almost never stops even though they are less than 0.5 meters away from a crash, they just think people continue to move away, they never check the situation to see if the person might be forced to stop before the person is away from the other persons driving line
I got to see the Lancer and found that unlike others then ours don't have Bridgestone ER300 but ER30 tires, and no strut-brace which another identical model we saw earlier had
And effective yesterday then a revamp of the danish registration tax has been made to give discounts for high fuel economy and extra modern safety equipment while cutting some old ones and making heavy cars and vans more expensive, and stopping tricks to let people buy luxury SUV's as campers with low tax if there's just a sunroof and mini kitched in the back smaller than an average cooling-box.
The new fuel-limit is 16 km/l for gas/petrol-cars and 18 km/l for diesel-cars and the Lancer does 14.7, however it has 6 airbags which might help, but no ESP. All in all the car might be several thousand more expensive. The new law has already been shot down as a show-off with very limited effect, especially for the enviroment since some diesel-mini-suvs like a Suzuki Vitara gets a tax price-cut a lot bigger than say a small low-power car the tv compared with but that was due to them also wanting people to drive safe cars which in their definition is a car with many many airbags and ESP (electronic stability program).
More than ever I'm looking to just leave Denmark behind and find some new place (I know bad driving exists everywhere but in bigger countries there are more chances of finding less crowded spaces than I can in Denmark which is too compact and small to allow that).
Frank
