lightnsfw@reddthat.com 18 hours ago
In America it would instantly be filled by cunts trying to cheat their way through traffic.
Even drivers in the US are good about it 99.9% of the time if there is anywhere to go, they do get out of the way and stay out of the way. There are heavy fines. And if the Amp-a-Lamps driver can get your plate number, the cops WILL go look for you.
Source: I spent nearly 20 years in Amber-Lamps and fire trucks.
We literally have this. We call it the “shoulder”.
And idiots try to drive on it to skip traffic.
Right? Around here, each side of a divided highway has two travel lanes marked. But they also have room for three full lanes and a narrow breakdown/emergency lane.
The extra space is intended for future construction. By repainting the lines and installing a temporary k-rail median, they can shift a travel lane across the normal median, close a lane, keep two travel lanes in each directions, and still preserve adequate (but narrowed) shoulders for emergency traffic.
Using a the shoulder for emergency vehicles is not as good, as they are usually smaller and they are the place where those with damaged vehicles should stop. This means you cannot go as fast on them as you can in the lane shown in the video.
I’d recommend going exactly the same speed on either, and it’s not particularly fast.
Going fast is kind of essential for emergency response vehicles.
Exactly. They have to split the red sea like this in countries like Germany because there is no shoulder. Even in the video you can see if they go off to the side they’re ending up in a ditch.
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 15 hours ago
In Germany, we have laws for that.
zergtoshi@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
…which are enforced?
Because that’s one major issue with the legal system of the USA.
Bluewing@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
They are enforced.
Source: I spent nearly 20 years as a medic and a firefighter. And I have had cops arrest and ticket drivers for driving HUA, (Head Up Ass around emergency vehicles.) It’s an easy ticket.
zergtoshi@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Noice!
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 13 hours ago
If you block the ambulance in Germany, you get punished nowadays.
Whether video evidence of driving through it without blocking an ambulance is enough? I don’t know.
zergtoshi@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Even trying to enforce the rules is a win in my book.
needanke@feddit.org 10 hours ago
But it’s still an issue.
FatVegan@leminal.space 12 hours ago
In america they have guns for that