Sensible drivers and blue light vehicle

[johnny2007]

I like the German motorways. I got up to my highest ever speed on my fully laden touring motorcycle (a true 144mph) before I started to get a death wobble on the bars and my speed restricting sphincter kicked in and told me to back off!

Yes, I saw you disappear in my rear view mirror within seconds.
Snail

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

As an aside, can't remember if it was on here or elsewhere, but I recall another thread about moving your vehicle out of the way for EVs and to what extent a driver should do this. e.g. if there was a much higher than average kerb, would you bump up onto it? Some said no as could cause wheel and/or suspension damage.

I'm on low profiles, so no I wouldn't drive up a kerb. There are no rules for what to do, apart from not deliberately obstructing them. You can get done for moving out of their way at the traffic lights, by crossing the white line. You can get done for speeding, if you speed up because an EV coming up from behind cannot get past you for oncoming traffic, but it has never stopped me ignoring the law when necessary.

 

[Mottie]

Yes, I saw you disappear in my rear view mirror within seconds.
Snail

You're not joking either - plenty of cars passed me at the 130 mark!

 

[johnny2007]

You're not joking either - plenty of cars passed me at the 130 mark!

I know.
I clocked 200mph+ on my honda cbr

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

You're not joking either - plenty of cars passed me at the 130 mark!

Combined with terribly short slip roads, many of them.

 

[crystal ball]

Sorry but I think Harry's comment "" it wouldn't happen in the UK."" does have some validity. I have seen too often the UK hard shoulder being used by cars to get past stationary traffic.

So what, thats different issue

 

[crystal ball]

I haven't ever seen it, all I have seen in the UK is very confused drivers, not knowing whether to pull right or left at the very last second. It seems - no matter how wide the road, that in a jam drivers will come to a stop scattered all over the width of the road. Certainly we do need a system of coming to a stop which cam leave space for EV's to get through.

Have to disagree, seen traffic moving for EVs many times, the geezer in the last car in the vid wasn't in tune though

 

[bernardgreen]

Combined with terribly short slip roads, many of them.

Just after re-unification in the East German area there were slip roads consisting of tarmac on the original cobbles. The tarmac was often missing and wet cobbles on a sharply curved slip road are not a good place at 30 MPH

 

[Deleted member 18243]

A clear lane is created in the slow moving traffic before the blue light vehicle enters the motorway

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GnwG-P0buWE

If that happened here you'd get a load of audi drivers speeding in the ambulance's wake taking advantage of the cleared path.

I'm on low profiles, so no I wouldn't drive up a kerb.

How altruistic! I note your concern for mankind in wanting to have everybody forcibly vaccinated, but you wouldn't risk your tyres to let an ambulance through.

 

[Deleted member 292770]

sitting on the fast lane at 40mph like prius drivers in uk.

nonsense

 

[Deleted member 292770]

I clocked 200mph+ on my honda cbr

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Don't know about this.
I found the autobahn very safe with slow moving vehicles sticking to the slow lane instead of sitting on the fast lane at 40mph like prius drivers in uk.
Probably I found it ok because I was one of the speeding drivers either on motorbike (in gone days) and fast cars.

Maybe my problem was that I was neither a crawler or speed freak, but somewhere between the two.

I found most of the autobahns I travelled on were 2 lanes in each direction, and that's the problem, crawlers right, speed freaks left lane - no lane for anyone who doesn't fit these two catagories. The right hand lane had slow vehicles, mostly lorries and the left had many vehicles travelling at very high speed. I was neither a slow vehicle or a high velocity BMW/Merc/Audi - but somewhere in between. Mostly for me it was a game of Frogger, trying to quickly overtake a lorry before someone appeared from nowhere behind me and sat on my bumper.

 

[ReganAndCarter]

Although I lived and drove in Germany I have only just today discovered that failure to create a Rettungsgasse ( rescue alley ) in slow moving traffic is an offence.

Fine is between 200 and 320 Euro. 2 points on the licence and a one month driving ban.

You've just given a reason for something I didn't understand about why Germans pulled over virtually into the median when in a traffic jam.

 

[johnny2007]

nonsense

Yeah, I know.
They should be piled up into their electric plastic boxes and burnt.

 

[Deleted member 18243]

You've just given a reason for something I didn't understand about why Germans pulled over virtually into the median when in a traffic jam.

And it shows that punishment works, a concept that loony lefties deny.