• NightCrawlerProMax@lemmy.world
    26·
    7 days ago

    I’m not an American but I’ve lived in Washington for years. Every time an Ambulance is moving with its siren on, people move to the side of the road to let it pass. This guy is just inaccurate.

      • Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world
        4·
        6 days ago

        yup, I was on a street so narrow just a couple months ago that I couldn’t pull over far enough to let a firetruck go by. I had pulled over as far as I could. The truck got behind me and I couldn’t move over. SO I just said “fuck it” - and zoomed into the road as fast as was safe and turned off the road the first place I could find.

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
    9·
    6 days ago

    Nobody more annoying than a German tourist bitching about everything

    Edit:

    ITT Americans hate being called out for their bullshit, unless it’s by Germans 🤔

    • dellish@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 days ago

      I’d say waiting for an ambulance while a loved one dies in front of you just because assholes wouldn’t get out of the way is more annoying. No doubt followed by some health insurance bullshit that makes zero sense in any other country. But no, it’s the tourist who’s wrong.

  • easily3667@lemmus.orgEnglish
    10·
    7 days ago

    In the video right after he says nobody moves out of the way there is someone moving out of the way but he edited the video to remove it.

    Disingenuous bullshit.

  • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
    11·
    7 days ago

    To be fair, with the congestion that severe, the ambulance should use helicopters. Like they do here in London.

    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      14·
      7 days ago

      Good luck finding a spot to land somewhere close within Manhattan. Unless you happen to have the heart attack next to a car park (or the central park) that also happens to not be heavily used right now there’s hardly any spot to safely land.

      in London and other cities it’s less of a problem given we don’t build that many high rise buildings and got more big old market places and small parks.

      • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

        A chopper can land safely on any road cross. And NY has shit loads of them. Then it’s a 1 minute walk.

        • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          7 days ago

          We need them to rappel from the helicopter and swing right into your appartment through the window. This is how we save lives.

  • 3DMVR@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    its a whole movie trope that this is an issue in europe because their infrastrucutre doesnt support cars

  • Landless2029@lemmy.world
    86·
    8 days ago

    This is a funny clip and an accurate depiction of NYC congestion.

    But, I live in a major city and we make way for ambulances. If it’s this bad we’ll end up with civilians running red lights or cops on motorbikes to unfuck gridlock.

    I myself ran a red light last week in rush hour to GTFO when I hear sirens. Just turn on my hazards, slow roll into the red light. Cars were already stopping for me so I was safe, then pulled over.

    This is really just making fun of NYC traffic and how fucked it is. The delivery makes it extra funny since we rarely get such an animated German on the front page.

  • guy@piefed.socialEnglish
    69·
    8 days ago

    I get imense stress from having an ambulance behind me even if there’s plenty of room to pass on the side. Immediately plotting where to go if it needs to go exactly where I am.
    I can’t imagine having an ambulance behind you and going ‘Meh, I’m driving here.’

    • edric@lemm.ee
      13·
      8 days ago

      This happened to me once. It was a main road with heavy traffic. I pulled over to the right to let the ambulance pass, but because of traffic, I was effectively sitting on the right lane. Apparently the ambulance wanted to move to the right lane because they were gonna turn right at the corner up ahead. I felt like an asshole because to everyone else on the road, it looked like I intentionally blocked the ambulance. And the siren blaring right behind you while the driver is blasting the horn is very stressful.

    • Prandom_returns@lemm.ee
      6·
      8 days ago

      If the ambulance is immediately behind you, you’ve already failed.

      In “we’ll-behaving” countries ambulance does not lose speed. If you hear a siren, you pull over, doesn’t matter if you see it or not.

      I’m not directing this at you, just explaning the course of action for people like in the video.

  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
    61·
    8 days ago

    In case you wanna see a “RETTUNGSGASSE!!!” (= rescuing lane) in action this clip is what it looks like ideally. If traffic slows down for whatever reason or if there are sirens in the distance drivers are supposed to assume this formation pre-emptively and misusing it is a crime.

    • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      What I find strange in Germany is that there is literally an emergency lane on the right side of the highway but they block it to make a corridor in the center

      • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        That’s the “Standstreifen” and it’s used for towing, parking after an accident or other emergency and as an extra lane during traffic jams and road work. That’s too many use cases to make them also suitable for emergency vehicles.

        • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          Ah ok I didn’t know, where I live you can’t use it for towing or as an extra lane (wpu get fined if you do that)

          • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
            2·
            6 days ago

            Not everyone can use it for towing and it only doubles as an extra lane when the road signs say so but my point is emergency services can’t rely on it being available.

            • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              6 days ago

              Yeah it’s understandable, here is just the occasional accident or some roadworks but those will be signalised in advance

    • Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      47·
      8 days ago

      That’s how it’s supposed to work in the US too. Maybe it depends on the state but in MN at least it’s illegal to fail to pull over for emergency vehicles. If you see any emergency vehicle on the road running with lights on then you are supposed to stop and pull off to the side so that they can have the whole road.

      The video in the OP looks nuts to me too. I’ve never seen people fail to pull over for an emergency vehicle in my area.

      • gt5@lemm.ee
        22·
        8 days ago

        This is how it is in Manhattan when it’s busy. It’s not so much failing to pull over so much as there is nowhere to go.

      • Hi_May@lemmy.world
        19·
        8 days ago

        This is a very NYC phenomenon, everywhere else I’ve ever been and lived in the US moves out of the way for emergency vehicles with their lights and sirens on, I’ve seen both issues where there is nowhere to go and times where people just don’t care, every time I’m in NYC I hope to not need medical attention

    • Aviandelight @mander.xyz
      13·
      8 days ago

      So I actually experienced one of these on 64W between VA Beach and Richmond. It was amazing how everyone including myself just instinctively moved to the sides of the road. It’s not a hard concept it just takes cooperation.

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        8 days ago

        Also space to pull over is important. Here in the midwest we have room to move over and everyone does, honestly way more than is necessary. Like people start to pull over a few blocks in front of the ambulance if they just hear the siren.

        New York’s problem in the video is the congestion makes it hard to move out of the way when there is nowhere to go.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      At about 10 seconds on the video you can actually see a guy getting out of the way of the ambulance to let it through, though he was not doing it preemptively and the guy ahead of him couldn’t care less.