Germans are legally obligated to form a rescue alley on the Autobahn whenever traffic slows, just in case. Recovery trucks only have orange lights and aren't allowed to speed or run red lights, but they can use the rescue alley I think. The sooner they clear the lanes ahead, the sooner we all can get moving again.

@RustyDust101

21 күн бұрын

I have this theory that in Europe the sirens are made as obnoxious and irritating as possible. Just to make people WANT to get out of the way and get rid of that noise as soon as possible.😂

@maxhill4370

21 күн бұрын

It’s the same in the states but it’s hard to enforce

@RustyDust101

21 күн бұрын

@@BR618 Seen it, couldn't agree more. I was just joking.

@marzinjedi6437

17 күн бұрын

I have seen a video of German drivers opening up like a zipper for an ambulance 🚑 before .

@uniquename111

15 күн бұрын

@@maxhill4370 Why would it be hard to enforce? Your registration number on the car should be traceble by the goverment?

Throughout Europe, vehicles behave like this, not just Poland and Germany. In Europe it's like this

For information in Germany: If you are the first car in the queue at a traffic light in an urban area and an ambulance or police or fire department or anything else with a siren comes from behind, then drive slowly and carefully into the intersection with hazard warning lights and paying attention to other traffic, even if the light is red and if you have no room to avoid it, cross the road in a straight line or in the direction in which you wanted to drive, even if there is a red light camera, because the emergency services are also flashed by the camera and if this is not the case you can object as soon as the letter arrives. The rescue coordination center will then check whether a vehicle was on the road at the time. No penalty is imposed for running the red light and the case is closed. Saving lives has never been punishable, no matter what.

@sasat6669

14 күн бұрын

True

I think the closest to how the UK reacts to an ambulance is Germany and Poland. All emergency services are shown huge respect on the roads. We all know it could be us, our family members or friends next time so we want them to get through as fast as possible.❤

@alibennett78

22 күн бұрын

Hi Beth how are u hope all is good long time just wanted to say hi

@bethcushway458

22 күн бұрын

@@alibennett78 hey Ali. How you doing darling? I'm alright thanks. Got loads going on as usual.💛

@alibennett78

22 күн бұрын

@@bethcushway458 as long as ur ok just said let me say hi 💚🤍🧡take care

@olsa76

22 күн бұрын

The coolest thing I saw was when in the 90's I was standing on a packed oxford street, London when an ambulance tried to pass. There was nowhere for the cars to go but the sidewalks which were packed with people. Simultaneously, the cars pulled up onto the sidewalk and the people on the sidewalks jumped into the shops to make room. It was beautiful!

@alibennett78

22 күн бұрын

@@olsa76 yes even that people would accept as it's decency a level of compassion as it could or may have been a family member belonging to any of us in that situation

I think in a lot of European countries, by law you have to make way for emergency services, not just ambulances, but other services like the police and fire services. For developing countries, especially the ones with high population density, it's more understandable that there can be a mess at time, but for a modern country like the US that has so many road lanes, there are no excuses, seriously, if the Europeans can do it with much smaller roads, there are no reasons why the US can't, and all I can think is that it's a combination of laws in place and the people, in Europe and pretty much every other modern country beside the US, there are strict laws when it comes to traffic and emergency services, but I also feel there a social dimension to it, where many people care about other peoples well-being, whereas in the US, you get a sense that people are out for themselves and don't care about others, basically, the individual over the community, probably why the US has such a poor record on this, even thought, they should be doing better than most modern countries with how wide there roads are. At the end of the day, if European countries can do it with their population density, then pretty much any country can with small regulations and consideration from the people.

USA video "what they gonna do?" Well the lanes to the side can pause to let the vehicles in front of the ambulance to move in front of them, clearing the lane for the ambulance?

Here in the Netherlands it’s like Poland and Germany. Everybody makes room as quickly as possible.

To be fair, I feel like you are making excuses for the NYC videos. The people in manhattan aren’t really making an effort. When they start driving, don’t drive straight forward, but go to the side where the space is created with the moving cars. They are just not willing to give up their place. Even when it’s gridlocked, if everybody moved to the side the could create an extra lane.

you can say whatever you want As wide as your streets are, there is room, but no one makes a gap on a three-lane road so that a 4th lane is created no no no shame USA

@thefancydoge8668

22 күн бұрын

Did you even watch the video? In downtown Manhattan there is literally no wheres to go, cars are packed like sardines on the road, especially with box trucks and buses in your way. This is only a issue in the big cities, in other parts of the US there is room to move over.

@1st.pirate988

22 күн бұрын

@@thefancydoge8668 Yes, I saw it and I say if you don't see the place you are blind, look closely at the buses and cars (taxi) on both sides, a good meter of space, that means lead the bus and cars a little more to the right and left, get in order and you've got it 4. Track clear in particular nothing happens before the crossing and even after the crossing only one person really does anything .

@RustyDust101

21 күн бұрын

​@@thefancydoge8668 I'm afraid you don't get the principle. If EVERYONE knows, not suspects, but KNOWS that they HAVE to get out of the way, they will move. The leftmost lane moves over as far to the left as possible, every other lane moves as far right as possible and shuffles as close to each other as possible. That opens up a LOT of space on all roads, not only multi lanes, enough for even semi trucks to get through.

@thefancydoge8668

21 күн бұрын

​@RustyDust101 that is a problem, people know to get out of the way but knowing nyc drivers they don't want to allow yhe people that actually want to get out of the way, since they are afraid and dumb thinking they are going to lose their spot. Big cities are always the worse in these types of situations. Sometimes there is no room thanks to people like that or tight rosds where getting on the curb is the only option.

People in the UK will pull to the side of the road if an ambulance, police car or fire engine have their sirens on. The emergency vehicles here go on to the other side of the road or even onto the pavement if they can get by that way.

In Australia, we have to pull over to allow all emergency vehicles to pass. Respect.

In Northern Ireland we move out of the way automatically, it's illegal to block an emergency vehicle, and people respect the vehicles and move asap.

According to stuff I've read over the years, there's a rule that's taught to every German (and other european) driver before they get their lisence that goes something like "if the are more cars around you than normal or if the congestion gets too bad, IMMEDIATELY try to make a space/lane wide enough for an emergency vehicle, even if there isn't a siren going off". It's just future-proofing taught to every would-be driver that everyone should learn. Granted, some countries don't have the space necessary for that (from the look of the background, the German example is on the Autobahn) but the more built-up cities had some space to work with to make a tight corridor.

@Shona1337

15 күн бұрын

It is not a rule, it is a law and you get a high fee if you don't do it. :) In Europe we are obligated to form a emergency lane if traffics slows down or stops. Everytime i drive to a red light i drive as far right/left as i can so if a emergency vehicle comes from behind it has space to pass.

The problem of large cities in the USA is the lack of public transport (city buses). In Europe, in large cities there are so-called bus lanes where only buses and emergency vehicles can normally travel . There are never traffic jams on these road lanes and this allows for quick passage for, for example, an ambulance. There are emergency lanes on highways that can be used for this purpose

in germany we have to drive to a side and make an emergency-drive-trough whenever we have to slow down on the highway , we call it "RETTUNGSGASSE" and it is a law now.. it is for police, firefighter or ambulance or even to get the car (or what ever) out of the way 😉 and i am glad that in the most countrys it works well 🤞

It seems, that when you have a great population, it doesn`t matter if one die ore survive.. i love our polish neighbors!

13:37 It sound like a fire truck but they did not know it was comming. It is just a law to make this "Rettungsgasse" Safetylane. The ones in the middle and on the right drive to the right and the ones on the left to the left

Yay Germany and Poland. 😊❤ But seriously, we have idiots too, but the difference is just the simple and clear rules! 😅 Most people know the rules and follow them and the rest gets peer pressured into following too. (Those that are daydreaming, confused or tourists)

Hospitals deserve to have flying cars just to avoid this god-awful traffic.

I think in busy cities you would need to reserve a lane that only emergency vehicles use, but some drivers would probably use them anyway.

It may depend on where you live, rural or city. Where I live in the UK we are like Poland/Germany, but if I was driving in London it might be more like New York just because there is no place to go in traffic. The same is probably true of small town USA and the big cities.

It's also about calmth and competence, through driving lessons probably. Often You can even make it easier for others to get out of the way quickly.

Common sense is what's needed and yes sometimes if there is no where to go u have no choice

I think it's more a matter of road design. You either design it the way to move as much traffic as possible (USA) or you design so traffic can make way for emergency vehicles (Europe) .

A lot of UK vehicles now have steady burn blue lights in the lightbars to combat the speed/traffic cameras. Cheshire Police had a person who would literally spend hours trawling through automated tickets trying to determine if the vehicles were on active calls

4:01 The Indian ambulance alarm seems less like an alarm and more like something to encourage (annoy) cows to move along. No matter what, for cultural reasons, drivers have to wait for cows. I imagine that also applies to ambulances.

I Ireland you hear the ambulance, fire truck, gardai you get out of the way ASAP in the safest way possible

My father got done twice when driving an ambulance here in Britain once when running a red at a junction wiping out a mini - 99.9% of the time people would stop at the junction on hearing the ambulance approach the other time for driving through a garage( gas station) forecourt to avoid a busy junction, ambulance driver was a change in career for him, but it was a well known family secret that he had fainted watching a childbirth film in his life.

Toll gates Camera recognition on number plate. Once recognised gate opens. Depends on speed of arrival at gate!!!

The system in Germany works 9 out of then times, but there are assholes here too. The difference is they will be punished ruthlessly ( fine of 16 weeks of pay and loss of driving licence. The fine depends on your income.)

The Germany one is 100% a fire engine instead of an ambulance, which makes it even more impressive given that the gaps have to be a fair bit larger for that to get through than an ambulance.

6:25 the taxi is complet blocking the road! LOL 7:02 and the bus did not stop, to let the ambulance drive throu... LOL America...

USA, unknown: Those sad little sirene noises in between milliseconds of silence sound so desparate yet sad. Can't even laugh at that.

SNAP! We both clapped at the same time.

On the bike, you go an average of 10 m/h. That is really faster than what the ambulance does now.

It is not a me problem until you get home and get a phonecall where someone telling you that your wife, husband, kid, grandpa, best friend. boyfriend, girlfriend died in the ambulance because people did not move out of the way and the ambulance did not reach the hospital in time to save them.

Good to live in Europe, just in case something might happend.

It's really not that difficult. Where there's a WILL, there's a way.

Holy crap you both lost a lot of weight, good job guys

It could be New York. But? What if the people who are alone in the car went cycling? Or take the bus? But hey, it's the big USA! It's all about the car! Greetings from Spakenburg, Netherlands.

European countries have a conciouns compared to anyother country, europeans have a mindset that may not be spoken, but in there head they may think its someone i know, Englands the same with all 3 Emergency services, did you know in the UK if you move through a red light to allow, Police, Ambulance or Fire through, that it is illegal to do so and you can gain points, so Spencer if you see someone driving who does'nt go past the red traffic light to allow an Emergency services vehicle through, don't assume they haven't seen them, it is they don't want points for going past a red light, as it goes against there insurance.

What is that Polish siren about 😅its like something out of star wars haha

Comedy recommendation, Fluffy goes to India | Gabriel Iglesias

The first one from China sounded like pakman

See "verkeerspolitie Den Haag, spoed begeleiding ambulance..." (trafficpolice The Hague, emergency ambulance). Here you see how things are don in the Netherlands.

@BeeGeesFan999

22 күн бұрын

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It's almost infuriating seeing the China, India and America clips at the start. In the UK we will move over but not quite as efficiently as say Germany or that part of central Europe

The first clip can't be China. They switched from driving on the left to the right in 1946 except - back then - in Canton, Kumin, and Shanghai. They switched 20 years later. Since then, all parts of China drive on the right hand side. The clip must be from any of the left-driving Asian countries like Indonesia or Thailand.

They've put loads of bike lanes in on uk roads in towns with raised curbs so cars can't even move over to let emergency vehicles past , honestly the council are ******

That german clip shows a different situation: the traffic was not moving like in the other clips, they were already stopped on the motorway due to the accident that the emergency vehicle was called to, that's why the drivers had already created an emergency lane.

@Laena_Wolf

21 күн бұрын

To be fair: the traffic in the USA Clips also already stopped and was not moving

@module79l28

21 күн бұрын

@@Laena_Wolf - The difference is that the multi one-way lane design of those US city streets and the drivers' mentality doesn't help.

@izeculd8828

19 күн бұрын

in germany we also move aside while traffic is stop & go or slowing heavily on roads designed to be driven between 35 and 150mph. We do all this preemptivly regardless of there being an ambulance or not.

1:01 Those are not Chinese streets, From car plates, bus stops in the middle of the road and green and white Bus That's the Kopaja Bus, Jakarta city Indonesia. Why did he write China huh??

It's simply the city design when there are sidewalks on any street there is always room to get out of the way as long as EVERYONE is doing it right.

hey can you react to eurovision contest 2024 on live this week end?

IF YOU ARE REALLY SENSIBLE THEN YOU SELL YOUR CAR. [ TAKE THIS FROM A DUTCH MAN ]

When human life has no real value, why would you care?

You guys are just making Excuse for your country .

Europe has tiny population and very low traffic.

@uncle_matula

22 күн бұрын

:D USA: 9 834 000 km² pop: 333,3 million Europe: 10 530 000 km² pop: 746,4 million

@sabineworner5202

22 күн бұрын

What????

@AlexTheGerman

22 күн бұрын

What do you mean by "tiny population" and "low traffic", my friend? Factcheck your statement, would be my advice. 😏

@reindeer7752

11 күн бұрын

Europe isn't a country.