Comment

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

<- View Parent

glimse@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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

source

Sort:hotnew top

Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

source
- glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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
  
  source