My favorite comment on the youtube video: "Kids were late for school"
It's something else to drive there. I was cruising at about 100 mph in the right lane while I was adjusting a mirror, and I was distinctively the slowest vehicle on the road at that point. That included a VW panel van. The funny thing is that I felt (and was) safer driving at these crazy speeds there than I am at the speed of traffic in the US. The entire 800 km I rode for over a weekend, I did not get cut off, pulled out in front of, or tailgated. Says something for a drivers license requiring as much behind the wheel time as a private pilots license in the states. Unfortunately, if I ever move there (I'm a dual citizen, I reclaimed my grandfather's citizenship under Article 116 of the German constitution, governing victims of the third Reich), I would have to either do the whole license process, or first transfer my US license to one of the 23 states that allows a direct conversion. (Note: you can still drive there for up to 6 months with a standard US license, this is just for moving there for greater than 6 months.)
The autobahn is better maintained than most US racetracks. They don't do tar snakes when it cracks: they cut out the section and replace it.
