After 12 hours on the plane without sleep, Xiao Yifei was very tired when he got off the plane. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon when the magic capital took off, after a 12-hour flight, it was 19 o'clock in Frankfurt to arrive at the local area, and this time Mr. Jet Lag returned the 7 hours he stole last time to Xiao Yifei, but it also made Xiao Yifei tired. He had fallen asleep at this time, but now he had to continue to hold on. Otherwise, it would lose the significance of his deliberate choice of this flight to reverse the jet lag.

This time, Xiao Yifei did not need to take the train from Frankfurt to Stuttgart. Because if you want to "travel around the world", it must be the most suitable for self-driving. So the enthusiastic William helped him inquire, as long as he found a notary public to translate the Chinese driver's license and stamp it with a notary stamp, he could drive in Europe. Xiao Yifei didn't know why, his driver's license obviously had English on it, and he had to get a translation, but he still complied.

After getting off the plane and being down-to-earth again, Xiao Yifei regained some of his spirit. Turn on your mobile phone to report safety to your family and Xiao Ya, and inform them of your new number in Germany, and the number in China will be temporarily deactivated in the future.

After contacting the car rental company, the car that William helped book drove to the exit, and after a simple car inspection, he signed for it, and the car was used by Xiao Yifei.

Originally, there are car rental companies near the airport, for example, **IS has set up a contact point at the airport, and there are people from various car rental companies in the parking lot next to it, so it is very convenient to rent a car here and pick up the car on the spot. But William was very enthusiastic to help him do this, and he had to accept it.

However, it is said that if you do not buy full insurance to rent a car here, it is more troublesome to inspect the car when you return the car, and it is easy for the car rental company to deduct the old injury as a new injury. William, as a half-local, used the car rental company to carry out activities early, booked a car model for him in advance, and bought full insurance, so that Xiao Yifei dared to drive in such a tired situation.

William repeatedly reminded Xiao Yifei that Stuttgart is safe, and don't think that Frankfurt is safe. He repeatedly instructed Xiao Yifei to be vigilant in several places in Frankfurt, especially the train station, and asked Xiao Yifei not to go there at night.

Frankfurt is generally a safe city, but avoid spending time alone at night near the train station or in the Sachsenhausen district, especially for girls and people who are not familiar with Frankfurt.

Because the red light district is directly opposite the train station, which is a gathering place for drug addicts and drug dealers, there are more drunks in Sachsenhausen, and there will always be more things after drinking, and the Offenbach district is mainly a foreigner's residential area, and the security situation is not very good. In addition, there are many Turkish immigrants in Frankfurt, so try to avoid eye contact when traveling at night. If a girl is accosted at random, it's best not to talk back and just walk away.

It's just that Xiao Yifei's current mental state, even if he wants to go to the red light district, he has the heart and is powerless. Set the navigation to the Hilton Hotel and follow the navigation to the hotel.

There is a Hilton hotel next to Frankfurt Airport, and the hotel also claims to use soundproof glass, but this is an airport after all, and the sound of planes taking off and landing is very loud. What Xiao Yifei needs most now is a good night's sleep, and if he is woken up halfway, it will be in vain for him to endure hard work on the plane.

At 7 o'clock the next morning, Xiao Yifei woke up and felt refreshed, without any sequelae of jet lag. Sure enough, according to the experience on the Internet, choose the flight that arrives at 7 o'clock in the evening, and do not sleep on the plane, which is conducive to jet lag. Now it seems that as the old saying goes, "Listen to others and eat well." That's a good thing.

Xiao Yifei, who was in high spirits, had breakfast, set the navigation to Stuttgart again, and drove out of the city on the highway.

For a long time, some rumors about Germany seem to have gradually become "facts" after word of mouth. For example, when it comes to all kinds of unreasonable speed limits on China's highways, everyone always likes to use Germany as a positive teaching material to support their behavior with "no speed limit on German highways". In fact, this is wrong, and it is extremely wrong.

Anyone who has played Euro Truck Simulator knows that if you really go faster than 90, you'll get a ticket and your earnings will be reduced. In reality, too, the speed limit for trucks on the highway is 90 km/h.

For sedans. According to statistics, the length of German motorways is about 12,000 kilometers, and one-third of the highway sections have clear fixed speed limit signs. Another third of the road has an electronic display with temporary speed limits, which will temporarily display speed limit information depending on various reasons such as weather. In this way, there are only one-third of the road sections, but in these road sections, excluding the speed limits on various highways and noise speed limits, etc., the real complete speed limit only accounts for about one-sixth of the total mileage of German motorways, that is, only about 2,000 kilometers without speed limits.

The 2,000 kilometres are unevenly distributed, with Bremen, the smallest state in Germany, having only 60 kilometres of motorways in its territory. After 2008, all 60 kilometers were limited to 120 speeds. Prior to that, only 6 of the 60 kilometers were unrestricted. How fast can you run 6 km? What is the significance of whether there is a speed limit or not?

The unrestricted motorways are mainly on several wide, very specialized motorways in northern Germany. It is the kind of highway that is said to be able to take off and land fighter jets, and this kind of highway can be normal without speed limit. But how many roads in the world can meet this standard?

Therefore, the signs you often see on the highway are: "speed limit", "cancel speed limit", "speed limit", and so on.

And even if there is no speed limit, there is a recommended speed of 130 kilometers per hour.

This recommended speed has no legal effect. In general traffic conditions, drivers should not drive beyond this speed. Driving at more than the recommended speed is not considered illegal. However, in the event of a traffic accident, driving beyond the recommended speed may result in joint and several liability for the driver who objectively increases the driving risk. In other words, you have to exceed this speed, and in case of an accident, even if you are not at fault at all, you will still bear some responsibility.

Therefore, what is said that there is no speed limit on German high-speed, this is a typical partial generalization.

These are all things that William told Xiao Yifei, and he was afraid that Xiao Yifei would be fined by the police if he was not careful. You know, the German traffic police caught speeding even harder. Plainclothes police officers drive modified vehicles to enforce the law, and the appearance of the vehicles is no different from ordinary civilian vehicles, but it is equipped with cameras and speed measuring devices, which are specially used to secretly film all kinds of speeding and forcible line pressing behaviors. When the illegal photo is taken, drive to the front of the illegal vehicle and show your identity for punishment.

According to William, speeding by 2 kilometers will be photographed and fined. And William told Xiao Yifei a sad news, that is, from this year, that is, February 1, 2009, double fines for speeding. 10 euros for speeding under 10 km, then 10 euros for 5 km/1 gear. But if you exceed the speed limit by 20 kilometers, it becomes 70 euros, and if you exceed the speed limit by 30 kilometers, you jump directly to 120 euros, and of course there is a higher penalty of up to 600 euros, but the average person should not try this speed. Speeding more than a dozen times, maybe the money for a car will come out, and this strength can be said to be ruthless.

For example, if the distance between the vehicle and the vehicle in front is less than five-tenths of half of the speed, that is, 25 meters, a fine of 40 euros and one point will be deducted; If the distance is less than 20 meters, a fine of 50 euros and two deductible points will be issued; If the distance is less than 10 meters, the penalty is 100 euros and 4 points are deducted.

And Wilhelm told Xiao Yifei that there is a crime of coercion in German traffic rules. That is, occupying the left lane for a long time, so that the faster car has to slow down on the right because it cannot overtake, which is regarded as coercion. In Germany, overtaking on the right side is strictly prohibited, even if the driver in the left lane dominates the road for a long time. Even so, if you overtake on the right, sorry, both cars will be penalized together.

In addition, traffic laws clearly stipulate that drivers can briefly honk their horns or flash their lights to signal that they are overtaking. Excessively intrusive behavior, such as frequent flashing of lights, honking, or not keeping a safe distance for long periods of time, is considered illegal and can also be prosecuted under coercion.

There are too many precautions for these things, and William is really a good friend, so he specially wrote an email about these and sent them to Xiao Yifei. Xiao Yifei looked very big anyway, and could only sigh that there were too many rules.

But perhaps it is so many rules that make Germany's high-speed traffic orderly. Look at the domestic high-speed, large trucks, buses, small bread have been taking the overtaking lane, vehicles change lanes arbitrarily, drill when they see cracks, see the traffic jam in front of them to grab the emergency lane, and now there are even reversing behaviors on the highway, and what is more excessive is that there are large trucks in order to turn around, and actually remove the barrier in the middle of the highway by themselves.

The German highway is connected to the city road, there are no toll booths and obvious entrances and exits, Xiao Yifei drove along the street and unknowingly drove onto the highway. The protective fences on both sides of the highway are high-speed Xiao Yifei, who is now driving on the highway.

Some Chinese people who travel to Germany for tourism or business, and have never seen toll booths in Germany, swear that "German highways do not charge tolls" and "suggest" that China's highways should also learn from Germany.

Actually, that's not the case at all.

It is true that there are no toll booths on the German autoways. But for ordinary vehicles, when they refuel, they need to pay an additional fuel tax rate of up to 260%, the high fuel tax has raised the price of German oil, making the German oil price higher than our domestic oil price, the price of their 1 liter of gasoline is nearly 1.6 euros, this price is about 1.5 to 2 times the domestic oil price. So they actually paid the toll, but at the gas station in Ghana, and then the fuel company handed it over to the state.

In addition, some independent tunnels and bridges in Germany are also subject to tolls. According to toll collection companies, highway tolls contribute more than 20 billion euros to Germany's finances every year.