The idea that another road user might have higher priority is unfortunately anathema to drivers here.
If this even happened here the corridor would simply be full of utes.
this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
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I must be broken as often I'll let a bus out expressly thinking that a vehicle with 20 people in has to be more important than me.
I'm not in the US thou
Letting busses out: awesome.
It's actually really relaxing and de-stressing to be a considerate driver... right up until the ass tailgating you gets all uppity.
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In Paris, government people and/or VIP use fake ambulances to take advantage of this and avoid being stuck with us peons.
I dont get it.
Here the shoulder is traversable. Like its wide enough to drive down.
We dont do this because emergency services just drive down the shoulder.
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Anecdotally, 40-ish years ago, one of my mom's relatives came to visit from Poland. There are a whole lot of wild stories about that visit and from when my mom visited Poland around that same time that highlighted a lot of differences between life in the US and from behind the iron curtain at the time.
While he was here, her relative was amazed to see cars pulling off to the side to let emergency vehicles pass, that was apparently something totally new to him.
A+ happy German narration.
The intrusive thought to just pull out and gun it down that road is fucking strong.
i see that regularly, when an ambulance carves out a lane there's always one or two impatient mfs following it
Which gets fucking expensive quick, because it's illegal and the probability is high that police and / or ambulance already are at the end of your race track
I mean that's why it's an intrusive thought instead of a good idea.
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This needs to be taught in the US and it needs to be enforced. If there’s two lanes on the road.(And I mean, two lanes going one way two lanes going the other way) Then, if it comes to a standstill everybody part so you have a center area that emergency services could drive in
Doing something for the good of people I don't even know? Sounds dangerously close to socialism! /s
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People might not like me pointing this out, and, admittedly I've never been to Germany, but doing such a thing does not matter in the US since there seems to be no real shoulder to this road. Anywhere in the US, whatever emergency vehicles that need to get to places don't require this at all - they will drive by on the shoulder of the road at break neck speeds even if no car has moved on that road in the last 10 minutes.
In the picture the right most cars have switched to the shoulder to make the Rettungsgasse big. I forgot the exact reasons but the shoulder is not used for emergency vehicles on purpose.
I forgot the exact reasons but the shoulder is not used for emergency vehicles on purpose.
The shoulder has no shoulder. Probably not safe.
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