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

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• Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah, in the US there’s zero chance that opening isn’t filled by drivers who think they’re more important than everyone else.

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well yeah… Because it doesn’t look like people are making room for an emergency vehicle lol

    Without context I wouldn’t know what was going on here. US law tells you to pull over to the same side so my first thought wasn’t emergency vehicles. I couldn’t blame a US driver for not knowing German road law

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      This isn’t pulling over because there’s an emergency vehicle actively there. They’re pulling over because traffic is blocked up, for the possibility that an emergency vehicle may need through. It doesn’t decrease throughput bit it does let emergency vehicles through. If people abuse it then throughput stays the same and they lose the extra benefit.

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      • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Fair enough but my point still stands. People aren’t gonna figure out why it’s happening without being taught to do it themselves so yeah Americans would drive right through

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• FenrirIII@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Go drive in an Asian country and come back. The difference is incredible

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• ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Honestly I blame speed limits. On the autobahn you know “if you’re slower, move over”. In the US, inevitably there is someone camping the left lane saying “I’m doing the limit so i have every right to use this as the long distance lane”

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  • Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Buuut if they’re going the speed limit, how are you supposed to overtake them anyway?

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    • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You’ll figure it out in 10 years when your old enough to get your license.

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    • ptu@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Old wisdom says at any time you can drive 10% more than the limit and face no issues

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      • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Unless you’re black

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      • SpraynardKruger@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I think I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve seen a US cop pull someone over while going over the speed limit. Most of the time they are sitting in their cars doing fuckall. Other than getting overpaid to scroll on their phones of course.

        It still amazes me when I see a huge pedestrian-annihilation-class pickup truck fly past a cop doing 90 mph in a 60 mph zone and absolutely nothing happens. I think to myself, surely they are going to get pulled over. That’s felony speeding.

        Nope. That would require the cop to get off their ass and do something. The only time that happens in this country is when there’s a constitutionally protected protest happening or when someone with dark skin is in the vicinity.

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    • regedit@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ffffuuuuuu, I’d definitely download a car!

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  • liuther9@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    He is right. Do not cross the speed limit or make others cross it. Or if you are really in hurry just use right lane don’t be beemer guy

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• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I had a very similar feeling moving back from driving in The Netherlands to driving in Portugal.

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