God you just seem intent on being insufferable and ignorant.

Let me see if I have the crayons to dig out to explain this to you since it seems like you didn't move past 4th grade or want to talk like an adult.

I train drivers professionally, I was trained by a major car company and my local PD. We work on new prototype vehicles on one of the largest testing sites in the country, we test various vehicles over many different tracks at varying speeds and with varying levels of safety equipment, some vehicles are barebones.

Speed has a very direct relation to fatality in a car crash. If you're going 50mph, you'll have a greater risk of dying than if you were going 20mph, that's just a fact of physics because it's the sudden stop that kills you (ignoring things like being crushed or impaled or flying out of the car)

A higher speed also means you have less time to react to hazards in the road if they suddenly appear. We shouldn't be operating constantly on the edge of human reflexes. This is irresponsible and just plain dumb when the difference is getting to a destination a minute or two early. An entire lifetime is not worth 1-2 minutes. Even getting pulled over costs much more time.

Now the Autobahn, it only has SOME areas with unrestricted speed, those are usually straight and or rural areas, it's not the entire autobahn.

Now let's talk qualifications. strict driver training standards, well-maintained roads with minimal traffic disruptions, a culture of disciplined driving, and the design of the roads themselves is what makes the autobahn less dangerous than your typical American highway.

In Germany, you are required to take tons of driving lessons, including several where you’re taken on the actual Autobahn and put into real, high-speed traffic. Drivers must receive basic first aid training and on top of that, you still have an incredibly difficult multiple choice exam and the road test.

All of this can take up to six months to finish up, if it’s all done successfully and it could cost over $2,000, compare that to my state where the license cost is $25 and you can take the test in a couple days after passing a written test in which you just study a book, the road test is a drive around the block and then a 3 point turn test, in some states you have to parallel park, in my state, you do not.

If you want to drive in Germany you need to be dedicated, which makes for better drivers. And better drivers means fewer accidents, fewer accidents means fewer deaths: Germany has far fewer motor vehicle related fatalities (per 100,000 people) than the US.

They keep the road on the autobahn repaired and maintained FAAAAR better than even the average American road, let alone highways that are constantly under the worst construction. A very populated highway in my area has had construction going on for Years and the road is so messed up, if you don't know how to navigate the road or your vehicle, the lines and divots left in the wake of the construction will literally grab your vehicle tire and yank you in a direction.

Left lane for passing is strictly enforced, where in America, not only is it not enforced, it's not the law everywhere.

Vehicle maintenance is also a much higher standard in Germany than in America, so cars that are on the road have less problems or risk of becoming a sudden problem and causing a wreck.

They also have higher penalties for tailgating. Here, if you're not tailgating someone else you're "impeding traffic" literally just ask on this sub and you'll see how many Americans' reinforce this idea that the only way to drive "proper" is to do the dumbest and most unsafe things on the road because in their mind, the least time spent on the road, the safer you are, but that's only true without context. If everyone drove safe and didn't make the road a hazard for someone else, we wouldn't have nearly an issue.

Again like I said, a large part of our fatalities is because we are less trained/educated on driving overall and because we think we're so great an individualized, we think we can speed anywhere we want because we have an over inflated sense of skill until suddenly your car loses traction and you have no idea how to control a drive tire spinout before it gets worse.