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by socksset
1547 days ago
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That sounds crazy to me. In the US, an ambulance with its siren and lights flashing has the right-of-way. The driver that hit the ambulance would be charged. Do they not want ambulance drivers in Denmark? That is mind blowing to me. |
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I'd argue that someone hitting an ambulance crossing a red light should be considered on an individual case, and we should accept that 99% of the time, everyone (who are not driving an emergency vehicle) are on mental autopilot and it works Just Fine (tm) and that when the rare case comes, we should accept that, we shouldn't punish people for being humans and not hyper vigilant machines.
Sure, it's easy to argue that "when you drive, you should DRIVE!" yeah, sure, outside of the race-track, that's just not how human brains work, without some boost of adrenaline, there's simply no way to keep the kind of vigilance required to act correctly 100% of the time.. (heck, I've driven out early during races because I've felt myself going back to "just driving around" mode).