aquascoot wrote on Jan 24^th, 2025 at 10:34am:


You are getting angry over something you obviously do not understand Scoot. Just drive safely, make way for emergency vehicles when you can, and enjoy the rest of your day. You ae a busy man with important tasks to do.

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So after overtaking 200 cars, is the ambulance trip faster or slower than if it had not overtaken any cars?

BTW, just another technical detail - people do not hear the siren on busy roads, especially in modern cars if the windows are up, air con on and music is playing. They see the lights first. I cannot remember the last time an emergency vehicle past me with both lights and siren on. They often don't even bother with the siren. Maybe they save it for the suburbs where you can't see as far.

freediver wrote on Jan 24^th, 2025 at 12:16pm:



if he overtook 200 cars which had all slowed to snails pace looking for a place to get over the verge , he has overtaken 200 cars doing walking pace.

he has lengthened his journey

this was my "lived experience"

the time meant nothing to me

i just dont like seeing people being mindless numpties

by the way, when only john smith is defending you its time for a radical reappraisal

Perhaps he meant to type "livid experience"?

It's probably that pesky phone causing him trouble - again. 

freediver has a pedal tricycle

UnSubRocky wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2025 at 4:13pm:


If you're doing 80 and there is no verge with rocky terrain and you're in a car with not much ground clearance and very low profile tyres, you'd need to slow down to nearly 10.

In my car I could put 2 wheels in the dirt at 80, in my wifes car, more like at 20.
My daughter who's only had her Ps for a few months would need longer to safely slow down and would probably need to slow down to 10.

Every combination of car and driver would be very different.

and 20 ambulances following behind for the injuries.

aquascoot wrote on Jan 24^th, 2025 at 4:38pm:


You are not making any sense Scoot. How does slowing to 20 km/h allow the ambulance to overtake 200 vehicles that are all travelling faster than it? Are you saying all 200 vehicles pull over at the same time?

Gordon wrote on Jan 24^th, 2025 at 6:28pm:


So you are with Scoot, but disagree on his main point?

huh.


pretend you are the ambulance driver
pretend you are travelling at 80 kph and in front of you is an endless chain of cars doing 80.
pretend there are double white lines'
pretend that there is a dangerous verge with loose gravel, long grass, driveways with concrete bollards, trees and drainage ditches (obscured by the grass).

now you cant overtake as there is an endless stream of oncoming traffic.

so you speed up to 90, come up behind a driver and put on lights and sirens.

what is he supposed to do?
the only way he can clear out of your path is to pull off to the left.
a manouvere which is impossible to do at speed without killing himself
so he slows down to pull over
as gordon said, he may have to slow to a near stop to safely get off the road
an all the time he is slowing, you are stuck slowing as well.

now the next guy up the road sees you running that guy off the road with your lights and sirens and he starts to slow and look off to the left for a possible exit point

so please tell me what you are achieving by having every car in front of you jamm on the brakes , on a road where you cant go across the middle line

please enlighten me on how cars going at 80 which are now braking are speeding up your journey ?

me thinks you are just too stubborn to admit you got it wrong 
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