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Audio: Whoever needed it, they’re dead.
Subtitle: Whoever needed it, they’re okay.That’s why nobody drives in New York. Too much traffic.
This seems paradoxical…
They’re paraphrasing a Yogi Berra joke.
I knew it from Futurama, but you learn something new every day!
Futurama is so dense with cultural references it gives me vertigo. Truly great show.
I looked it up, and the Rettungsgasse isn’t a thing in Germany on city streets, only on highways (Autobahnen) and roads between settlements (Außerortsstraßen). (TIL it’s a thing in Germany on roads between settlements because here in Austria it is only a thing on highways.)
There’s still an obligation to move out of the way for emergency vehicles, but there are situations where that simply isn’t possible. There are sometimes dense urban traffic situations similar to the one in the video in Germany too.
You simply move out of the way. Nothing more to it.
I’ve never seen a siren stuck in traffic in my life here in Belgium
Same here. I’m German. I mean, yeah, maybe for a few seconds or something. Until people fucking moved out of the way.
Neither have I in America.
Same in Sweden.
Living in Germany, I beg to differ.
In the situation shown every vehicle would have to move somewhere to let the ambulance pass.
Even if that means sidewalks or crossing red lights. Had to do so myself on occasion.
That’s not a dense urban situation at all. There was plenty of space on the road in the video. Usually the cars drive a bit on the pedestrian walkway or just really tight to the left/right end and it’s enough. Would also have been plenty sufficient on the road in the video
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And people complain that climate protestors hold up ambulances, even though they always let emergency vehicles through.
Now I want a kinky bicycle. I just have a straight one.
Kinky and straight aren’t mutual exclusive 😏
Ah, so it is because of bikes! /s
Yeah those pesky cyclist blocking the road ahead!
Easy Douggie!!
NYC needs to ban cars
No cars on the island at least
The german guy is playing it up for views but i do agree that’s pretty bad. In Australia we have similar laws - you must move aside for emergency vehicles, penalty is a fine and demerit points on your license.
And in practice it is unusual for cars not to move - usually someone elderly/distracted that didn’t see or hear them and probably should get a driving retest. The ambulance will squelch their siren / blast their horns as a reminder for people slow to move, but in my 20 odd years of city driving I have never seen an ambulance stuck like in OPs video - and yes, every major city gets traffic just as heavy as that with lanes just as wide.
This is a video of an ambulance running through fairly heavy traffic in Sydney that shows how rarely they get blockaded by traffic and how most drivers try to do the right thing. Low res unfortunately, but it is 11 years old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsplO_2l4hE
The german guy is playing it up for views but i do agree that’s pretty bad.
I’ve made the same observation when I visited New York. He’s not really exaggerating
Park near a fire hydrant or pass a stopped school bus and everybody freaks out, but this is just fine somehow
In NYC people block hydrants all the fucking time. Only time it’s enforced is when there’s a fire, by FDNY
In my experience this, and running red lights, is more of an American phenomena than one inherent to cars
Never send paramedics to do a German cyclist’s job!
Dieser Kommentarbereich ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
… ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, ja
So viel Zeit muss sein
This is something of a new development in my experience. When I first started driving, people would actually move over to allow emergency vehicles to pass. But since COVID, it’s just gotten ridiculous. Absolutely nobody pulls the fuck over anymore.
I am also pretty sure it’s still against the law to not make way for emergency vehicles.
alt source? catbox won’t load for me and many others.
This is because Americans are garbage people
Wowowow
