Reality check: tell that to the German border police who are standing on the A93 motorway at Kiefersfelden eyeballing every single driver entering Germany from Austria.
There's more than a whiff of Checkpoint Charlie about the place (portakabins installed directly on what was the motorway surface, concrete traffic calming measures, 5 km/h speed limit, armed police, more police sitting in chase car should anyone decide not to stop, floodlit at night)
I'm sure it's worth it, what with Austria and Germany sharing a fairly long land border which is more or less completely unsecured. Side roads - of which there are plenty - don't get checked much either. <rolls eyes>
