• python@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      Rettungsgasse. It means that the cars on the leftmost lane pull over to the left and all other cars move over to the right. That always creates enough space for an emergency vehicle to pass through.

      • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        Have you ever driven in NYC? There are already cars to the left, right, front, and back of you. There’s nowhere to go except forward.

  • raef@lemmy.world
    49·
    2 days ago

    That in built up areas the times are not so different. That is evident in many studies. Rural areas are incomparable as the US has rural areas at a level Germany can’t understand

  • QuadratureSurfer@piefed.socialEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    The transcription is almost correct all the way except for one part.

    When he says, “Whoever needed it, they’re dead”.
    The transcription reads, “Whoever needed it, they’re okay”.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
      23·
      3 days ago

      because social media platforms will delete your content and ban you if you continue to talk about the “bad stuff”.

      • death
      • murder
      • suicide
      • rape
      • guns
      • drugs

      welcome to the dawn of the age of new speak. I heard a 13 year old kid last week say “unalive” instead of “kill”.

      we’re so fucked.

      • toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        If I post that list to all of the social media accounts I made before I realized that privacy is important, will they get deleted?

        • EightBitBlood@lemmy.worldEnglish
          121·
          3 days ago

          Kids invent new words for their current culture. They in no way organically invent words that are friendly to advertisers. You should be disgusted that corporations are now such an invasive species they are affecting the language our youth is inventing. This is poison. It is not at all normal.

          Dude. Bro. Radical. Excellent. Tubular. Fleek. Ratchet.

          Are not at all the same as:

          Sewerslide. Unalive. Junocide.

          Oligarchs are forcing kids to learn a new language that downplays the very suffering they are causing worldwide.

          You should be furious, not apathetic. Or your kids will never learn the meaning of those words as they aren’t productive to the oligarchy.

      • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        3 days ago

        It’s way worse. They don’t ban you and they don’t delete your content. TikTok ads don’t pay enough that demonetization is a concern either.

        The algorithm just silently (!) deranks your content. They don’t have guidelines, they don’t have feedback, they will never communicate on what is and is not okay to post about. You’ll just say “Fuck ICE” in a video once and notice it is doing suspiciously worse than the rest, but then again, you’re never quite sure why some of your videos “make it” and some don’t. So maybe you’re being paranoid? You can’t tell.

        So on top of the very real algorithmic censorship from these platforms, you’ve got very frequent bouts of mass psychosis where everyone self-censors for no other reason that other people are doing it and they don’t want to risk it. Is the word “dead” de-ranked? Quite likely not even, but who’s to say, and it doesn’t cost anything to farm a little engagement in the comments by self-censoring…

        Isn’t the future bright?

  • MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    411·
    3 days ago

    I’ve never been to New York, but as somebody born and raised in Southern California, lived in Portland, Or, and is currently living in Minnesota, I have never seen this. You always move over to the right. Immediately and without question. In California, Oregon, and Minnesota, at least, it’s the law, and you can be fined for not complying.

    • nandeEbisu@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 days ago

      As an NYC resident, cars will move over if there’s space, but there’s so much congestion that you physically can’t move, there’s no shoulder or anything.

      And there’s also idiots who are fighting congestion pricing that helps with these kinds of problems by reducing the number of cars on the road. You can’t widen these roads without getting rid of sidewalks which just means even more cars and traffic so the only option is reduce the number of cars.

    • SethW@lemmy.world
      32·
      2 days ago

      the right lane cars move to the right the left lane cars move to the left the ambulance goes down the middle, its interesting your brain only imagines moving right but not process the goal of creating a path

      • MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        2 days ago

        My brain can imagine the process of creating a path, wtf, that’s literally what I’m talking about. Just moving over to the right is what is written in the law in most places. Chill.

    • David_Eight@lemmy.world
      41·
      3 days ago

      I live right outside NYC and have to drive through on a semi-regular basis. People generally do move out of the way of emergency vehicles. BUUUTTTT, traffic is completely fucked in NYC. Watch the video again, cars are trying to move but literally have nowhere to go. This happens daily, if you’re not out off Manhattan by 3pm your travel time is now at minimum doubled on an average day. Some days its 3-4x worse.

      • Dämnyz@lemmy.ml
        81·
        2 days ago

        I think the difference in Germany is that you are required by law to make space beforehand. When you are in a traffic jam on the Autobahn, there are rules for how to make a “Rettungsgasse” (rescue alley). A few years ago they bumped the penalty up to 320€ and suspend your drivers licence for a month. This penalty isn’t only applied when you actually hinder an ambulance or the like, but when your actions could affect them in theory. I love that.

  • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    6811·
    3 days ago

    Kinda misleading. This dude is a comedian and “influencer” (not really in the typical sense but he films a lotta stuff for online content). He cuts filming just as people are moving out of the way for the ambulance.

    I ain’t saying NYC doesn’t have a problem with what he’s saying, but I am saying you can see how he’s not being entirely honest and he’s incentivized to be dishonest.

    • Rothe@piefed.socialEnglish
      171·
      3 days ago

      Even if they did eventually move out of the way, it would still be way slower than what happens in Germany (and many other European countries). Cars would begin to move out of the way as soon as they notice it approaching.

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
      841·
      3 days ago

      No amount of dishonesty can invalidate the fact that in a typical german city that ambulance would be going literally 10 times as fast without any issues. Its not just stupid drivers, but NYC is also just a complete failure in terms of road design.

      • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
        131·
        2 days ago

        NYC is thrice as dense as Berlin, the densest city in Germany. Probably accounts for something.

        • Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de
          182·
          2 days ago

          It really doesn’t, because in Germany cars always move out of the way. Even if the street is completely full of cars waiting at a red light for example.

          • rapchee@lemmy.world
            21·
            2 days ago

            tbf it’s because there is room for them or the ambulance to move to, like a bus lane, a bicycle path etc, but that’s not acceptable in many places

            • Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de
              6·
              2 days ago

              No, that’s my point. In the video there is much more room to move than what I mean, with two lanes it mostly suffices to just move the car to either edge of the road.

        • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
          211·
          3 days ago

          Its not that deep. They just need to remove 2 of the three car lanes, replace em with a bike and a bus lane and the problems is solved.

              • Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world
                21·
                2 days ago

                The idea of a car lobbyist sitting in on a fucking city council meeting.

                You guys are like gnomes the way you talk about America.

                No the car lobby doesn’t have to do anything, our own goddamn reactionaries will immediately squeal “They gonna make traffic WORSE!” despite the fact that I find our single lane freeways more efficient here because The option to choose what fucking lane they are in allows these people to make more mistakes and force more ‘brake waves’.

                • pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                  1·
                  2 days ago

                  That’s the direct result of car lobbying, it has changed the perception of a whole generation on how we should build cities

                • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
                  1·
                  2 days ago

                  If you genuinely believe that there are no car and oil lobbyists in local politics, especially in a city as big and famous as NYC then you are completely out of touch with reality. Yes thats not the entire reason for why its like this but it definitely helps buying of politicians.

      • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        81·
        3 days ago

        Yeah he primarily posts English language content because his humor is mostly based off English speaking stereotypes instead of, well, jokes.

    • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      He cuts filming just as people are moving out of the way for the ambulance.

      You do realize you’ve proved his point? In Europe there’d be no “just as they are moving”, the cars would have already moved by the time the ambulance reached them.

    • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      55·
      3 days ago

      This dude is a comedian and calling things kinky is one of his catchphrases.

      Another reason I don’t like this idea of this dude being used as any source of information, I find his comedy routine exhausting and overly laden with tired, old stereotypes instead of actual humor. A lot of his jokes are “Germans are fetishists”, “Germans used to be Nazis”, “Germans are rigid and rules following” and “my wife is Jewish, isn’t that bizarre?”

    • Tuuktuuk@nord.pubEnglish
      42·
      2 days ago

      Yup, but they mostly did not. That’s why the ambulance got stuck so far behind.

      Also, their making way is reeeally sluggish!