Audio: Whoever needed it, they're dead.
Subtitle: Whoever needed it, they're okay.

That's why nobody drives in New York. Too much traffic.

I looked it up, and the Rettungsgasse isn't a thing in Germany on city streets, only on highways (Autobahnen) and roads between settlements (Außerortsstraßen). (TIL it's a thing in Germany on roads between settlements because here in Austria it is only a thing on highways.)

There's still an obligation to move out of the way for emergency vehicles, but there are situations where that simply isn't possible. There are sometimes dense urban traffic situations similar to the one in the video in Germany too.

Now I want a kinky bicycle. I just have a straight one.

And people complain that climate protestors hold up ambulances, even though they always let emergency vehicles through.

Ah, so it is because of bikes! /s

The german guy is playing it up for views but i do agree that's pretty bad. In Australia we have similar laws - you must move aside for emergency vehicles, penalty is a fine and demerit points on your license.

And in practice it is unusual for cars not to move - usually someone elderly/distracted that didn't see or hear them and probably should get a driving retest. The ambulance will squelch their siren / blast their horns as a reminder for people slow to move, but in my 20 odd years of city driving I have never seen an ambulance stuck like in OPs video - and yes, every major city gets traffic just as heavy as that with lanes just as wide.

This is a video of an ambulance running through fairly heavy traffic in Sydney that shows how rarely they get blockaded by traffic and how most drivers try to do the right thing. Low res unfortunately, but it is 11 years old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsplO_2l4hE

NYC needs to ban cars

No cars on the island at least

Park near a fire hydrant or pass a stopped school bus and everybody freaks out, but this is just fine somehow

In my experience this, and running red lights, is more of an American phenomena than one inherent to cars

Never send paramedics to do a German cyclist’s job!

Dieser Kommentarbereich ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

alt source? catbox won't load for me and many others.

This is something of a new development in my experience. When I first started driving, people would actually move over to allow emergency vehicles to pass. But since COVID, it's just gotten ridiculous. Absolutely nobody pulls the fuck over anymore.

I am also pretty sure it's still against the law to not make way for emergency vehicles.

This is because Americans are garbage people

Nothing to do with America.

I've seen the same asocial behaviour in Paris, when I was sitting on a bench near Notre dame.
There you can see a bridge over the Seine, and on the other side there is a hospital (I don't know if it still operates, they've planned on closing it back then).

There was also an ambulance driving there, and it took it also over 10 Minutes to cross that bridge.
It was really mindboggling to me.

In my small town in Germany it works well though. Might be just a problem with bigger cities in general.

Of course the ambulance have a reinforced bumper. I think the cars would move out of the way if it means that your gets damaged of you don't

This guy is smug as fuck... is he really equating heavy traffic in NYC to all of America?