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There are many instances in dense cities where the streets are too tight between buildings or busy with buses and cars to see down the other road at an intersec
by reustle 3y ago
There are many instances in dense cities where the streets are too tight between buildings or busy with buses and cars to see down the other road at an intersection.
Japan gets around this by having ambulances at least slow down and look both ways for each red light they are driving through. Doesn’t seem like a huge ask.
- bombcar 3y agoEmergency vehicles here do the same thing, but there’s a human element that may be hard to implement- the drivers assume that a vehicle has “seen” them if it stops. But an automatic car (and some drivered cars, too) will then start up again and drive into the side of the truck. But the biggest reason they slow down is that if two emergency vehicles are responding from different roads - they can hit each other - so much so there are multiple examples of it on YouTube. That’s why they switch sound approaching an intersection and slow down. It actually helps them if there are cars stopped at the cross streets, running interference.