• antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      The rest of the world does without GIANT and dangerous emergency vehicles for one.

      Could you show me those small and safe emergency vehicles that are used outside the USA? Because I’m outside the USA, I literally live near a firefighter station, and they’re all probably as big as US vehicles.

    • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 hours ago

      Any vehicle large enough to carry the necessary equipment and people for emergency services is going to be dangerous to pedestrians. Not sure what you’re trying to prove here.

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        6 hours ago

        Tell me youve never been in another country without telling me youve never been in another country.

        Ambulances and firetrucks in Europe and Asia are smaller than most american pickup trucks.

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          I agree that the US have way too many way too big trucks but this…

          Ambulances and firetrucks in Europe and Asia are smaller than most american pickup trucks.

          … is just wrong. I live in Germany and even small villages with only volunteer firefighters have full blown trucks way above 10 tons.

          Most fire departments have something like this:

          MAN TGM 18.330 Tank with 4,000 litres of water 18 tons total weight

          More specialized departments close to industrial facilities, airports can be also much bigger. This one is currently the biggest weighting 52 tons.

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            Weight doesn’t matter in this context? US firetrucks are almost a meter wider than german ones. A german firetruck is only about half a meter wider than a Ford F450.

            And also firetrucks in US are first responders, they go before ambulances for most emergencies.

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            Here in 'Murrica, they send something like in the second photo when grandma falls in the bathroom.

            Yes, I’m exaggerating, but not by much. The truck in the first photo is smaller than the trucks my city fire department has. There’s a retirement community not far from where I live, and they send a ladder truck for medical emergencies there several times a week. I’m not really sure what use 4,000 liters of water would be when somebody is having a stroke.

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          6 hours ago

          Unless they have some sort of advanced materials science in other countries we don’t know about here in the US that makes them as light as cardboard, I’d bet my year’s salary you wouldn’t volunteer to let one hit you.

          And yes, I have been out of the US. Shall I tell you what we say about those who “assume” things over here?

          • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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            6 hours ago

            Clearly you didnt watch the video, because you couldn’t be more wrong. This is uniquely a north american thing

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                North america is the only place where the trucks are this wide, and where the firedept has the power to regulate the size of infrastructure (and where bike lanes can be) for their increasingly large trucks.

                But don’t watch the video or anything, keep arguing your ignorance.

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                  Your comment said uniquely north american. I even edited my comment to say North American to match your language since I initially did say US.

                  When I came into this thread, you may have noticed I was renting to you and your assertion that pedestrians outside North America don’t get injured by heavy metal objects. I don’t care how compact your vehicles may be, a hunk of solid metal in motion is going to injure a squishy human being.

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                    Other countries have separate lanes for bikes, less open space for cars and parking (fire dept in the US regulates the minimum space needed for their large trucks).

                    Guess what, when the bike isnt on the same road as the hunk of metal, they don’t get hit. Weird i know. Dont watch the video though!!

                    (Canada has similar shitty emergency vehicle rules, it’s a north american thing)

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      The rest of the world often also builds better infrastructure, like a protected bike lane, to signifcantly reduce the conflicts between cars and not cars.

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          6 hours ago

          Which makes my point. Japan has 300+ people per square km, almost 10x as dense as the US. They still put out fires and carry sick people.

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            6 hours ago

            My point is it’s much easier to have localized support when there isn’t miles between buildings lol

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              5 hours ago

              Oh I didn’t realize you were making a strawman argument.

              We were discussing the unnecessarily large emergency vehicles.

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                Is it a straw man when I am saying the majority of America is rural and therefore urban-specific fixes for this issue can’t fully apply in a country as large as the USA as it can for some the size of our smallest states

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          The size of a country shouldn’t impact urban areas that much. Cyclists aren’t biking from california to florida on a daily basis, they are biking from their home to their job, gym, or groccery store. Your country is not too big for bike lanes, you’re city planners are just wastefull.

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            7 hours ago

            Oh I don’t disagree, just a fair point, it wouldnt make any sense in rural areas, which is 97% of the USA landmass lol

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        A bike lane would’ve helped. If there wasn’t one, I can see a good reason for whatever the fuck really happened here.

        If there had been a bike lane, he could/would have stayed there behind the stopping line acknowledging the right of the ambulance to go first, but without one…I can see someone in panic trying to get out of the way and then getting run over regardless of where he was positioned.

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      11 hours ago

      Fun fact, many if not most of those ambulances are made in Canada, and not the USA.