Research shows that ambulance lights and sirens minimally impact response times. Perhaps the fire truck would have arrived faster if it had yielded to oncoming

Research shows that ambulance lights and sirens minimally impact response times. Perhaps the fire truck would have arrived faster if it had yielded to oncoming traffic, or if the garbage truck had itself been autonomous. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10634288/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10634288/