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This is a funny clip and an accurate depiction of NY congestion.
But, I live in a major city and weake 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.
He’s just demonstrating New York City is fucked, not America
Yes this is a NY City thing. Everywhere else we all move out of the way.
But fuck it, US deserves some negative propaganda, so have at it!
In case you wanna see a “RETTUNSGASSE!!!” (= 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Wenn die Polizei vorbeifährt, ja?
Dann halt ich erst mal an, ja
Ja?
Eh, feels like he’s playing up the stereotype of the eternal German.
"…WE DON’T DO ZIS IN GERMANY! YOU BUILD HOUSES WITH WOOD? WE DON’T DO ZIS IN GERMANY. YOU DON’T SEPARATE GLASS FROM RECYCLING? BUT WE DO ZIS IN GERMANY!!!
I’m allowed to say that, I’m German myself. We are obnoxious and tone-deaf fuckers.
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.
Manhattan has gridlock that prevents this. There’s no space to move into.
Oh look a cyclist bitching about shit
i lol’d
Nobody more annoying than a German tourist bitching about everything
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.
There might be somebody… ☝🏼
I saw this exact same thing yesterday in Cologne Germany but not with one, but two ambulances.
As a city dweller I never seen this happen in Germany ever in my life. So not too common at least.
Germany is better than most places, but it happens here too. It could be one of those things you only notice when you’re looking for it.
I’ve never seen someone open carry a gun in the US but when you listen to people it sounds like everyone does.
I was a my friends WG (group apartment) and her roommate just got back from the US. She was shocked that the Americans even put sugar in their bread. Something something it’s why they are all fat and unhealthy. I was curious, so got all of the german bread there… And you know what? It all had a higher sugar content than the American bread example.
Ayyyyy! I’m walkin here!!
Feeling confused. Why can’t the ambulance go through the small gaps between sidewalk. In my country ambulance drivers drive like its GTA.
Love it!
There’s no place for anyone to move to. The congestion is such that you cannot get out of the way. The Van Wyck alone will slow an ambulance to 3-5mph because of traffic. You cannot get out of the way if there’s no place to go!
There’s congestion in German cities too. The point isn’t to drive away. During rettungsgasse, nobody goes anywhere. They just make way by stopping to the sides.
The problem in NY is that the cars are too big for the lanes to do that.
There are no lanes to move aside into. It has nothing to do with vehicle size or “driving away”. I really don’t know what to tell you, I’ve spent plenty of time in several German cities as well as US cities, the comparison isn’t there. There are no breakdown lanes or shoulders to move into in many places to make room for emergency vehicles. You’re welcome to argue all you want, but I drive in and around NYC regularly so I’m more than familiar.
Yeah but they do actually just stop. If there is a siren anywhere in the area, and everyone just stops driving their car. Even when there is somewhere to go, no one ever does.
But they at least still have ambulance. Wouldnt want to be in the UK while having a heartattack
I’m only across the water in Ireland and I can tell you from experience that ambulances arrive quickly, are free and so is the treatment. The UK health system is measurably better than ours so I feel like this is plucked from somewhere that the sun doesn’t shine.
I feel like this is plucked from somewhere that the sun doesn’t shine.
To be fair, that describes the UK pretty well.
Are you saying the UK doesn’t have ambulances?
That’s a ridiculous and easily disprovable claim.
Also aren’t the nonexistent uk ambulances free?
As in not charged at a rate of thousands of dollars, they’d still be tax funded I assume.
Yeah, ok, he’s not wrong, but also, he can f— right off. We don’t need/want foreigners 2 cents, we know it’s fucked, but fuck him. Sorry.
Haha, do you mean that for real? I am curious who you are in real life, you seem to be an interesting person.
I live on a small 14-acre farm in my parents’ 5 bedroom house. I had some issues and moved back home several years ago, but now I couldn’t leave because there is too much to do, and they are older now and need more help around here.
Well hell yeah. Who is this German ass hole? Thinks he fucking superior? I think his country and people have plenty of their own issues and bullshit. It was 1 stuck ambulance in NY city, and he’s going to talk all that bull shit about our country?
I’m sorry, but I’m not very patriotic until I see this kinda shit. That German can fuck on back to his own country and act like prick about his own ambulances stuck in traffic.
Well that’s the thing. Our ambulances are not stuck in traffic :D
Either way! You (and him, or other like kind) can fuck right on back. You don’t think we have eyes? And we know it’s ridiculous, but do you see us locals talking shit like that? Well. And even if you do, it’s our place to talk shit about, not yours.
Aren’t Germans supposed to be smart enough not to act like a jackass in a foreign country?
Well I am not in a foreign country and it’s everybodys place to talk shit about everything. If you don’t like it, don’t read it. Don’t take it too seriously. I would be happy if you point out something ridiculous about Germany. It’s to better ourselves or to laugh together at it.
No, it’s not… terrible take. You sound unapologetically German. So, German… but you also sound young. Anyway…
Thanks?
This comment actually perfectly encapsulates how the US has got to the point that it’s at today.
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Lol ok thank you. I concur.
