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When traffic comes to a standstill, German drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor so ambulances and firefighters can fly through at full speed (cdn.imgchest.com)
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[–] 92 points 5 months ago (15 children)

so frustrating to drive in germany and then come back to the us with so many inconsiderate idiots around.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, in the US there's zero chance that opening isn't filled by drivers who think they're more important than everyone else.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    Honestly I blame speed limits. On the autobahn you know “if you’re slower, move over”. In the US, inevitably there is someone camping the left lane saying “I’m doing the limit so i have every right to use this as the long distance lane”

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago* (5 children)

    Buuut if they're going the speed limit, how are you supposed to overtake them anyway? You wouldn't break the speed limit, would you?

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Old wisdom says at any time you can drive 10% more than the limit and face no issues

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I think I can count on one hand the amount of times I've seen a US cop pull someone over while going over the speed limit. Most of the time they are sitting in their cars doing fuckall. Other than getting overpaid to scroll on their phones of course.

    It still amazes me when I see a huge pedestrian-annihilation-class pickup truck fly past a cop doing 90 mph in a 60 mph zone and absolutely nothing happens. I think to myself, surely they are going to get pulled over. That's felony speeding.

    Nope. That would require the cop to get off their ass and do something. The only time that happens in this country is when there's a constitutionally protected protest happening or when someone with dark skin is in the vicinity.

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