Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances

notsosure@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• chickenf622@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Probably still massively speeds up response times though. I imagine it wouldn’t be that hard to squeeze 2 cars in that given space allowing the emergency vehicle to get past the person not following the rules.

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  • claimsou@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The photo example is extreme. It’s usually narrower.

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    • curbstickle@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Still though, Ive seen traffic in NYC keep an ambulance for two lights.

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, it’s a high-speed 3-lane road that would fit 5 parked cars curb to curb so Rettungsgasse is where the space goes. Most other roads can barely yield 1 lane but emergency drivers are skilled and European fire trucks are not 1.5 lanes wide; still better to use a narrow free lane between 2 stationary ones rather than one of 2 crawling ones

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• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Prisoners dilemma always wins.

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  • diaphanous@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah but not in the way I think you mean: ncase.me/trust/

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  • Tudsamfa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    • Prisoners dilemma doesn’t work when people are thinking of tomorrow. Once you take into consideration how your actions affect the decisions other people make in the future, it is always better to cooperate. That’s a big assumption from people, but if they don’t, they are not acting rationally in their own interest like in the dilemma.
    • I’m pretty sure this comment is not complaining about people driving through the gap, it’s about people who are too absent minded to create a gap in the first place. In that case that’s not prisoners dilemma at all, they don’t get anything from not moving to the side.

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