Germany: A5 Frankfurt - Darmstadt

[@wadewuagneux7985]

This video brought back great memories for me. I have driven this section of the A5 many times during my visits to Germany between 1989-2012. Hope to be able to drive it again soon. Thank you! As to the average speeds, I remember driving 215 km/h on a Sunday morning between Darmstadt and Frankfurt.

[@karlkojote1754]

The A5 was already a test track in the 30s. Record drives were carried out there. The racing driver Rudolf Caracciola keeps the record speed of 436km / h on public roads to this day. The racing driver Bernd Rosemeyer had a fatal accident on the A5 in 1938 while attempting to set a record. There is still a memorial stone in the Parkplatz Bornbruch West. In the video at 2:40. Formerly the Parkplatz Rosemeyer, but due to the past it was renamed with an early entry into the SS.

[@RooiGevaar19]

tbh they should rename it back to Rosenmeyer Parkplatz. Bernd Rosenmeyer was a famous and known person, and his achievements overlap the fact that they happened during Nazi era.

[@vespabaviera6764]

You always have a good taste in music

[@elizabethbathory2253]

love this Autobahn, done it too many times but always puts a smile on my face driving it. Leave Frankfurt south and its a drivers dream road, no matter the time of day or night. No Speed limit just enjoy drive.

[@svenmartin840]

Thanks for the ride. I felt I was back in 1984 as a 16 year old. I wished I had entered the United States Air Force. And had returned in 1996. With a Honda Accord with turbo charging.

[@FrenchRiviera4K]

Amazing Drive !!! Thanks for sharing !!! 💛🧡

[@povilasdev6636]

This experimental e-truck system remind me plans in Lithuania back in Soviet Union times to connect largest Lithuanian cities trolleybus systems of Kaunas and Vilnius. Motorway Vilnius-Kaunas would had have trolleybus line and I expect it would have looked similar as in your video. I tend to doubt if there would be lighting system, but it would had been cool if they had implemented continuous lighting between Kaunas and Vilnius, like we see with Belgium motorways. All trolleybus lines in Lithuania has lighting as far as I know.

[@boltblacksmith1859]

I have been to Russia before corona-times. Most of their big cities have got such trolleybus systems and corresponding lines as you mentioned above.

[@Pyeknu]

Did you ever do a film of A5 south of Darmstadt?

[@StevenEveral]

0:56 It's so strange to me to see those signs and not see the "US AIR BASE" sign among them. I was stationed in Germany from 2004-06 and remember those signs like it was yesterday. I know they closed Rhein-Main Air Base in 2007, but it's a cherished memory for me.

[@Driving_in_Armenia]

👍👍👍 Greetings from Armenia 🇦🇲

[@rainsoundsalliarti]

Good drive my friend ☺️

[@vanderquast]

Keine baustelle 👍😊

[@Hoschie-ww7io]

Wow. Endlich mal jemand der rechts fährt. Findet man sehr selten auf dem Abschnitt

[@GeDoBa]

2:50 wunderbarer Audi 100 Avant ! Ich vermute, dieses Autobahnstück war als Ausweich-Landebahn für die us.am.Streitkräfte im Großraum Frankfurt ausgelegt worden

[@varoonkumarselvaraj6675]

What a planning I am sure German Autobahn are best highways in the whole world 👍👍👍👍👍

[@Marchanthof]

Hele vette video! Hoewel ik je kanaal pas kort ken, vind ik je video's echt top om naar te kijken! Ik heb wel een vraagje: heb je tijdens het maken van de video's nooit problemen ervaren wat betreft privacy-wetgevingen? Ik weet dat dashcams in sommige landen officieel verboden zijn. Nu wil ik van de zomer zelf wat opnames maken als ik op vakantie ga, maar ik twijfel of ik in een land als Luxemburg gewoon kan filmen zonder problemen. Ik weet dat jij wel een aantal video's in dit land hebt. Heb je hier nooit problemen mee gehad?

[@TheLakshmiKarthik]

in INDIA 🇮🇳 , the government is planning a similar PILOT between Delhi- Jaipur ,, ON or IN-PARALLEL to to the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway , may be by 2023 (?) , nevertheless this one looks AMAZING 🙏 🇮🇳🇩🇪

[@beatfreak333]

Als ich die Oberleitung zum ersten Mal auf der Autobahn live gesehen habe, kamen sofort folgende Frage auf: Warum macht man den Kombiverkehr von Zug und LKW nicht attraktiver? Warum braucht man so einen Scheiß? Dem Anschein nach gibt es wieder mal Ingenieure die das Rad neu erfinden müssen❗

[@diandragreen1948]

Vor allem so unfassbar teuer!

[@thomasnovacek4686]

Ich denke mal nicht, dass der E Highway kommen wird... Der Grund ist Simpel, im Falle eines Unfalles kann kein Rettungshubschrauber mehr landen... Ein EC 135, dieser ist derzeit für diesen Zweck der am meisten verwendete Hubschraubertyp, braucht zum Landen eine freie Fläche von 20x60m in der sich auch keine Fahrleitungen oder ähnliches Befinden dürfen, da sie sonst Abgerissen werden würden, und so zu einer unkontrollierbaren Gefahr für alle werden würden.

[@player6970]

Gute Frage.

[@ufkarslan9862]

Ich fahre Tag täglich an diesem Stück Autobahn und ich muss sagen dass ich in all den jahren noch nie einen lkw gesehen habe der diese Leitung benutzt.

[@pedrorubiotejero_aka_prt]

Until when was the A5 between Frankfurt and Darmstadt the only 4-lane per direction Autobahn in Germany?

[@EuropeanRoads]

I think until 2006, when A9 near Munich was widened to eight lanes.

[@alexanderivkin7086]

@@EuropeanRoads In fact the A3 between Frankfurt-Süd and Offenbacher Kreuz was 8 lane long before 2006. The only 8 lane Autobahn sections were across Frankfurt. Between Westkreuz Frankfurt and Frankfurt-Niederrad on A5 you also have 8 lanes. But goddamn we need much more 8 lane sections!

[@DaveDVideoMaker]

What are the overhead wires doing at 0:01?

[@DaveDVideoMaker]

Never mind, it says so at 3:01.

[@jerrysshowroom681]

They're for electric trucks using power lines.

[@lucadellalombardia9055]

I love the German Highways.....toll free

[@markusuebel2624]

yes but fuel prices are high

[@lostinmyworld5499]

Nice video

[@Luuk4444]

Is there a speed limit on that part?

[@bjornkumpf274]

No

[@alextiga8166]

@@bjornkumpf274 And it's kind of cool how Germany has no speed limits on some road yet they still have good statistics on road safety there.

[@bjornkumpf274]

@@alextiga8166 in Germany traffic increased very much last decade. especially trucks, as Germany is a "tranfer country" of goods. So you can't drive that fast anymore, may be at night ;). There are also lots of traffic jams and construction sides. And actually, many Germans are driving quite slow (120-150 km/h). Only a few are driving over 200 km/h

[@alextiga8166]

@@bjornkumpf274 I've been in Germany and drove across it two times so yeah I am well aware of traffic problems and I know that most people don't go over 140kmph

[@Claudible]

Before the pandemic, I used to commute on that part of the A5 daily. I just love going fast so I used to go 160-180 kph in off-peak hours. Since 2019, I’ve been following a self-imposed 110 kph limit in order to help fight climate change and to save money. Driving slowly isn’t even any less fun on the A5 once you get used to it. I’ve been sticking to the 110 limit ever since, and will continue to do so once the pandemic is over.

[@MikeRo19]

I know this highway but why I don't see the international Railroad? Between Cologne and Mannheim is the railroad following this highway. And from the train you can see the highway. So why I can't see the railroad? 😖

[@burgerpommes2001]

0:45

[@diandragreen1948]

A5

[@sarahj8231]

The high speed line runs next to the A3 from South of Cologne to Frankfurt Airport. Nothing next to the A5 here at all

[@MikeRo19]

@@sarahj8231 i thought it was between Frankfurt Airport and Mannheim too.

[@DaveDVideoMaker]

Those electric trucks need a pantograph to connect to the overhead wires.

[@drive2city]

Yes, it is a test track (about 5 km) for the ELISA research project on charging hybrid trucks.

[@player6970]

140 is slow, 155 was my cruising speed with a small car, 180 with a bigger one. Passing higher.

[@GrummanBearcat]

Impressive, I don't know many small cars that go 155mph, must have something hot under the bonnet.

[@player6970]

It was about Germany, so all figures are in KMH

[@ontheroad1747]

👍

[@waldogadellaa]

Nice, you filmed this section as it isn't logic to drive the A5 from Frankfurt southbound when heading in from Cologne.

[@frankg-v8c]

This is how electric driving should be. Long-distance driving on highways with catenary. In cities with battery-systems.

[@lane0mator]

Electrify all Autobahns in Germany like that? Well, we could probably put some tracks on there as the Trucks only drive in one direction. Wait a sec, I heard about something called cargo railway. 🙃

[@frankg-v8c]

@@lane0mator Haha! i think we are gonna use those railways a lot more in the near future. if u need

[@lane0mator]

@@frankg-v8c Fully agreed! But the train system in Germany has few left capacity on the tracks for more trains and building new tracks is way too hard. The planning laws are really strict and lots of people go to court against almost every new railway. Just look at the Rheintalbahn or new tracks for the Brennernordzulauf in the german Inn valley.

[@SeverityOne]

What would probably work better is an induction system, so that the power is distributed via a cable buried in the road surface. It would work for all sorts of vehicles, not just trucks that are tall enough to put a trolley bar on the roof. (Not to mention that such a bar on your BMW looks a bit silly...)

[@lane0mator]

@@SeverityOne that costs even more and with every damage in the surface you need high voltage technicians to fix it, not asphalt workers. Too complicated. Plus induction has high losses when there's a lot of space like here between car and ground, the efficiency is low. We don't have enough power to waste to do this. Even H2 is more efficient.

[@papaschlumpf332]

Rechtsfahrgebot scheint keine Sau zu interessieren...

[@arthur_p_dent]

Wieso, klappt doch wunderbar. Und bei mehr als 2 Spuren ist das Rechtsfahrgebot ja auch nicht ganz so strikt... Stichwort die StVO-Formulierung "hin und wieder ein Fahrzeug".

[@papaschlumpf332]

@@arthur_p_dent also wenn der Verfasser stellenweise der einzige ist der rechts fährt, klappt das eher nicht so gut...

[@papaschlumpf332]

@Vladimir Putin was ist da auf dem 405 so viel anders?

[@andreasberger8566]

Weil von den Autofahrern 99,9 % saudumme Dreckschweine sind. Wusstest Du das etwa nicht ?

[@xcmarathonisti3892]

@@karlkojote1754 Offenbach beste Stadt.

[@jasonbourne170]

0:00 - 0:05 Intro? Name?

[@gennadiygoc9778]

😃👍👍🙋

[@BlackHoleSpain]

Wow! Not a single curve in the whole video.

[@diogorodrigues747]

Autobahns are very monotonous because of that...

[@kempo_95]

There's a weird vertical line on the screen whenever the signs move off the screen.

[@EuropeanRoads]

I've noticed that too, it's a kind of weird digital artifact that Movie Studio creates.

[@kempo_95]

@@EuropeanRoads Okay, I just wanted to let you know in case you didn't😅

[@andreiteodor2288]

going

[@rlas]

Right after u said u were doing 140 kmh a car with bikes overtakes you. That driver clearly needs to go back to school and check the limits for bike racks 🫠

[@JeffreyMeijer1]

The cantanary looks Belgian.

[@campolindo18]

Just missing the lanterns in the middle of the traces every 100m that are not even used anymore in B and NL 😂