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

• glimse@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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