In Poland, drivers take this as an honor point to get out of the way of the ambulance as quick as possible (less so for the police xD ). If someone does not get away immidiately he is cursed at by everyone in sight and then gets mean looks :D
@@BoomBoomBoomUwU This rule is certainly observed by those who poison other people in the name of their own freedom. Ale ich, oprócz osobników ze zgniłymi mózgami, również wszyscy nienawidzą.
Because in Poland there is (in a good way) social pressure to do this - "what if it was Your grandma in that ambulance?". And You always want to keep Your babcia in the good health :)
My father was 3 times in ambulance riding like this across Warsaw like we see here. Maybe that Polish habit saved his life 3 times so far, so we can still be happily together.
There are 4 main siren types and all of them serve a different purpose: 1. Wail (the 'american' one) - used in open spaces while driving relatively slowly, as they are heard the best from distance 2. Yelp (faster tone) - used when driving fast or approaching intersections 3. Priority (the fastest one) - utilized in tight spaces like when there are lots of buildings around blocking the sound. It has the best effect at smaller distances. Sometimes used on intersections as well 4. Hi-Lo (the 'german' one) - approaching and entering intersections, can be used as an addition to other siren (eg. Wail and Hi-Lo so you have both long and short distance effectivness) These tones were developed because of the way people react to different types of noise and the effective distance of them, so they are as efficient as possible
I am a Polish truck driver and i had a difficult time in Germany. Taking the break on the parking near the Dortmund i suddenly felt dizzy, and my eyes didn't work as normally, i felt accelerated heart beating. I went out from the truck and screaming for help (the panic reaction), and some man called for ambulanse. He calmed me down a little bit, i'm grateful for this german guy he stayed with me. He propably saved my life.
Współczuję, kłopoty ze zdrowiem w obcym kraju to nic przyjemnego. Co to było, problemy z sercem? Mam nadzieję, że to już przeszłość i wszystko ok. Pozdrawiam 👍
@@adriannaszudrzynska9371 Miałem ciśnienie na takim poziomie że panowie z pogotowia stwierdzili że to szok że jeszcze nie miałem udaru. Okazało się w później w badaniach że miałem, ale tzw. "mikroudar" , w szpitalu dobrze się mną zajęli, odkąd biorę leki wszystko jest ok.
sluszna prawda tak jak inne pojazdy uprzywilejowane wiem jak sam wylem w Warszwie to jechalem autobusem akurat to kierowca autobusu zjechal polowa autobusy zeby zrobic przejazd strazy pozarnej a kawalem dalej palil sie jeden z budynkow mieszkalnych w bloku
Ale pewnie prawa jazdy nie masz żeby się dowiedzieć jak to wygląda naprawdę? ;) Paniusia siedząca w samochodzie czy pan, który pokłócił się właśnie z żoną na światłach nie zerka co 3 sekundy w lusterka i słyszy syrene 20-30m za autem i dopiero wtedy zaczyna zjeżdżać. Nie ma co liczyć że na 200m przed pojazdem uprzywilejowanym samochody będą się magicznie rozstępować. Podobnie to wygląda na całym świecie nie tylko w PL.
Bo Polska jest zajefajna po prostu! Smród komunizmu i PRLu przemija, kult Polak Polakowi wrogiem przemija do gleby razem komuchami.pozostają jeszcze dzieci które wychowali ale czas i to wymiesza😅
In Poland when you are in a prep course for driver's license you will be taught about a very specific concept that roughly translates in English to "corridor of life". In simple words when you see and ambulance, fire fighters or police on signal you get the hell out of the way. It doesn't matter if it's green or red as long as you don't pose a risk. You get out of the way of said transports because life is at stake. You are supposed to make to a road driveable for them and stop. Additionally this rule is heavily enforced by law and there was a case couple years ago when an idiot wanted to use corridor of life for his personal use and decided to go right behind an ambulance. He was heavily fined and if I remember correctly lost his driver's license. There might also be a case police on signal will escort another car and then the same concept is enforced.
...and when you can't get out of road, U can take speed limit in your bottom. One time, on road in the forrest, with lot of curves, I saw ambulance in mirror. No place to get out, no place to overtake, speed limit 40 kmh. I drive 80-90 kmh to place, where I could slow down, without slowing ambulance
@@DonSalieri181 Had the same situation in Austria once on the highway. Construction, speed limit 60km/h, enforced via section control. I saw the ambulance behind me with lights and sirens coming in hot. Nobody wanted to let me merge into the middle lane from the left (3 lane highway). So I just accelerated up to about 90 km/h and switched to the middle lane when I saw a big gap and only then I slowed down. Ambulance even thanked me with a thumbs up and hazards.
I may be wrong, but from what I know, the sound from different types of siren propagates differently and they are suitable for various situations. On high speed driving and in more like an open space the different type of tone will be more likely to be heard than on slow speed with heavy traffic. Short tones before intersections are also designed to get attention of drivers in close distance. The driver (or maybe his colleague from right seat) constantly changes siren manually to chose the best one, based on the speed and surrounding. It should be also linked to horn, so by using the horn you can cycle through all types of tones.
@@Arch_AngelusI thought so too, that's why I was surprised by the title of this video. I believe in Germany it is even better executed than in Poland.
@@cyklopejaTu bym się kłóciła....nigdy nie widziałam w mieście tak szybkiej karetki jak w Polsce do tego wolniej reagują kierowcy. Bardzo możliwe że to wina tego że dużo jest Ausländerów i tego nie znają (mieszkam w mieście 1.5mln)
No, the yellow sign with children holding a lollypop means that. The yellow fluorescent border is for better noticeability in more dangerous places or highly used cross walks.
In Poland we calling this car KARETKA or AMBULANS or ERKA the last one means letter R on the side of car which means REANIMATION = the highest emergency, people in bad condition
The mix of different signals is very helpful because after hearing the same pattern our brains get accustomed to them and we tend to pay less attention to them. Mixing prevents that.
Almost all cars in Poland have manual transmissions and you have to learn it during course for the licence. Shifting transmissions is not that hard after few hours of training and nowadays it is even easier (it was very hard with double-clunch techniques in 1950s, but it is easy now).
Not impressive, it's normal. Automatics are lazy af and no way to drive a car. Might as well have AI driving you cos you can't be bothered to do it yourself. I drive gear a car with shift gears and would never exchange for automatic.
@monikaprzymuszala4183 Not impressive to you because you are Polish and see this everyday, you grew up with it. On the flip side of the coin, you are totally wrong. Try driving a manual in Yew York traffic, better yet try driving to DC or LA. You'll be begging for an automatic when you're stuck in traffic for 3 to 6 hrs.
@@PeterPortev it is exactly where manual is better. Automatic needs some momentum to work. In a jam it is useless. And on a highway there is no difference really. You go to 6th gear and stay there for ages
Krakenwagen in polish is most commonly "karetka" which its is a diminutive from the word "kareta" which means "carriage". Technically its called "karetka pogotowia ratunkowego" eng. "emergency readiness carriage". "Ambulans" is also another term that is used. My friend used to work as paramedic and at bad days (you know, when they had multiple deceases on their watch they would turn to dark humor to cope and call their Krakenwagen "trumna" eng. "coffin".
Many years ago I had a visit from several American ladies in Poland. They were really impressed by the drivers' answer to the ambulance but then they said no one would give pull away in the USA because when one does other cars try to take advantage and hop into the empty space. I told them that it's about a human's life so who cares if someone takes advantage or not? They said, still it wouldn't work in the USA.
Indeed it is, i don't know what he is talking about or hes gotten his drivers license in a 4 week cours. My drivers licens 36 years ago was around 6 month an 800 € (around 1600 Deutsch Mark) And the Rescue Lane is Mandatory in Germany. Fines: between 200 and 240 euros depending on the type of violation. Points in Flensburg: A violation of the rescue lane can result in 2 points in Flensburg. Driving ban: A one-month driving ban can also be imposed as a sanction.
@@Arch_Angelus it looks like he wanted to make a video just for attention. Many Poles come to watch such videos and generate traffic with comments. For me these reactions are unbearable. Just notice how delayed is his reaction for stuff like driving the wrong way or using different sirens - he needs to think what to say to make it look legitimate. Truth is we are quite well reacting to emergency vehicles, but there's a lot to improve. Many times I've seen people get scared and just stop in the middle (like the car in the 2:20 - driver just stopped, waiting wasn't intentional, they only had no clue what to do, and kind of blocked the road instead of driving further) or even making weird maneouvers while the light was green. The biggest issue is in case of a highway emergency - we often form the life corridor when emergency vehicle arrives (firefighters are first most of the times, so it goes faster with their horns, but still help is much later) and when it's actually properly done, some idiots choose to reverse using them or turn around and drive like that to the nearest exit, which can be a few kilometers back.
Ja też zawsze zjeżdżam najszybciej jak to możliwe, pamiętajcie, w tej karetce może być ktoś z waszych znajomych lub rodziny... Warto zachowywać się jak człowiek, zawsze. Pozdrawiam :)
Jak Cebula w potrzebie to nie ma że boli, trzeba Ją ratować :D Jak mnie kiedyś ratowali to jechali ze 150 po mieście, aż musiałem się trzymać łóżka żeby nie wylądować na podłodze (byłem w pasach ale kto by po morfinie na to zwracał uwagę xD)
It was not discipline as much as deep empathy for those in need. There is a rule as well and it's called the corridor of life. It's just the little thing you can do to help thw emergency car deliver their help. And as much as we Poles have a lot to learn from Germans, you are welcome to learn about the emergency service in Poland. It's one of the best in the world.
Zasada jest prosta, jak słyszysz syrenę to spierniczasz z drogi pojazdu uprzywilejowanego z włączoną syreną do najbliższego pasa ruchu jeśli jest ich kilka, a jak nie ma to do najbliższego krawężnika, chodnika, pobocza i stoisz i nie masz prawa się ruszyć dopóki nie przejedzie wóz uprzywilejowany na syrenie. Masz też obowiązek umożliwić to innemu kierowcy aby też się zmieścił. Nie ma zmiłuj bo mandaty są wysokie i zjedzą cię inni kierowcy.
This is the first thing we learn when starting to drive - if you hear an ambulance you get out the way asap as if it was a member of your family in there. Every second counts.
The sound of the siren has different “lengths.” Depending on whether the ambulance is between blocks or cars or a vacant lot, this sound reverberates differently from its surroundings. That's why different signals are used because depending on the surroundings it is then better heard.
About our license plates: First letter marks the voivodeship (province), next one or two marks the city "powiat" which is a smaller region administrated by the largest city in that area. So you could say that's those letters marks the city, yes. Next 4 or 5 are random sequence of letters and numbers. There's some restriction about where and which character can appear but it's still random. So... to summarize: left part is the province and city where the car was registered. Right part is randomly assigned letters and numbers.
I'm Polish, and I saw my first corridor of life on a highway in Austria while coming from a vacation in Italy. It's an amazing experience to see, the entire highway in front of you, go sideways.
The yellow signs are often in a close relation to schools where there is a high possibility of children walking through the passing for the drivers to be extra cautious and/ or there might be a dedicated person that will help children to cross the road.
It is called in our language 'tunel życia (life tunnel)', when cars give way to the ambulance, police, fire brigade, and it looks like just such a tunnel
I'm Polish and nice to hear that someone (from a "better" country in particular) is impressed about us. Also I was a bus driver in Warsaw, Wrocław, Kraków and Grudziądz and I assure - it looks same everywhere...
Krankenwagen is in Polish: karetka/ ambulans. Btw., when you have asked the question regarding licence plate numbers, this was in Popiełuszko Street, close to my home in my earliest childhood and when I have studied in Warsaw after coming back from Berlin. And the ambulance drove to a hospital where e.g. I was born and my grandmother died...memories will never pass away 🥹
so about plates in poland for personal carsthey have 7 characters in total first 2 or 3 characters says where car was registered 1st is always letter determined by województwo (bigest administration unit) 2nd or 2nd and 3rd are letters determined by powiat (unit one step lower) rest of the characters can be numbers or letters, letters that are similar to numbers like O and 0 or B and 8 cannot be used
yeah, that line that forms when cars go to sides is called "lifeline", and in law if u have someone injured in your car (let's say the person by your side is bleeding and you can't stop it) you can go right after the ambulance to save that person. Also it exists, bcs it was encouraged, I still remember simple poster that said "pozwól życiu wygrać!", that translates to "let the life win the race!" and there was ambulance standing right next to death, I'm not sure if it's still somewhere, but now considering how deep it's embeded into one's mentality there's no way that anyone will ever forget
The plates in poland are as follows Voivodship letter, town letter, then number. The letters in the number are used to keep it as short as possible, in the sense that the sequence goes from 0-Z.
In Poland the two-lane road treated like it's just a suggestion, especially out in the country. I was late arriving for a funeral, flying in from the United States, and I remember we got a taxi, and it was a five hour death ride of always taking the "third lane," bribing cops who pulled you over for speeding, etc.
I am a Pole. Our driving culture has improved considerably in recent years. I've been to Germany several times and the driving culture there is even better than ours.
Polnische Einsatzfahrzeuge haben ein paar verschiedene Sirenen, weil sie in verschiedenen Situationen auf dem Weg benutzt werden, zum Beispiel: "wilk" (Wolf) wird benutzt wenn die Straßen eher leer sind, aber "pies" (Hund) und "le-on" werden benutzt um eine Kreuzung oder eine Straße leer zu machen. Zusätzlich RTWs und Feuerwehrfarzeuge haben pneumatische Signale (z.B. Martin Horn oder andere).
The ambulance in polsih is called Karetka Pogotowia or ambulans. If you dont get on the side, the other ppl will curse you, shout at you...and trust me, you dont want to stand on ambulance's way 😅
I think its the same in America where we have a quick siren like here > 3:47 for packed areas and streets (because its better at singaling at short range). A long Wail for Highways and roads like here > 2:53 (Because its more hearable at long range). And just a normal horn/air horn to signal that you need to move or not to go because you will pass at the Intersection like here > 3:15 (Because its aggressive and gets your attention easily). We also have diffrent tones separate for Police (Policja), Emergency Medical Service (Państwowe Ratownictwo Medyczne) and the Fire Department (Straż Pożarna).
I was recently in Seoul, South Korea, and I was shocked that the ambulance and the firetruck were totally ignored. They had to stop at the red light and wait, no cars moved to give the way.
Car plates are little bit different than the German ones. Poland is divided on 16 voivodeships and 314 powiaty (66 of them are biggest cities which are powiat on it's own) First part contains two or three letters (two for biggest cities, three for smaller powiat's. First letter is always about voivodeship (like land in Germany), and the second (and optional third) are for powiats. Then you have 4-5 signs (mixed variations of letters and numbers) refering to individual vehicles.
Except for Warsaw, which uses various three-letter codes for each district instead of one two-letter code for the whole city. Some cities are now also introducing additional codes, because they ran out of possible combinations. Most notably, Gdańsk will start issuing the plates starting with XD.
To be more precise, the rule behind two or three letters in the first part relates to whether it's a "standalone" city that has county rights ("miasto na prawach powiatu") or just a typical county ("powiat") with both cities and rural areas. Cities take two letters, counties take three. There are some oddballs though, as in rural counties with two-letter codes, probably due to their size (two-letter codes allow for about 1.24 million plates while three-letter codes yield about 867 thousand - the numbering schema are designed so that numbers do not repeat when the space is removed), but there are only 8 such counties nationwide (and two of them received two-letter codes as their second code). The opposite is also true (Żory city with SZO plates from the very beginning and two other cities when they run out of their first allocation). Most of Warsaw city actually uses two-letter codes, except for three districts sharing WW (with different letters in the last 7th position) and one district taking a slice of WX out of another one.
You asked for name. Krankenwagen in Polish is KARETKA or AMBULANS but I think most commonly used term is simply POGOTOWIE (RATUNKOWE) which is same as German "Rettungsdienst" or English/American "Emergency Service".
With how dynamic this ride was, it should be made into a video game. Give the players a *real* reason to rush through the city, while penalizing them for any car crashes. With underlying teaching about proper emergency vehicle response.
We call this "korytarz życia"(corridor of life) it makes all drivers on the road to make a driveble path for medical cars, fire trucks and police cars when they have siren on. When police workers, ambulanse drivers of fire fighters use a siren without good reason they can loose thier job or even end up in jail(sorry for my bad english) Ambulanse are called "karetka" or "ambulans" in polish
I always move away from emergency vehicles. It is a duty, otherwise one can pay a fine. The itinerary was strange. He started in the Ochota district near the big university hospital and traveled about 15 km to the northern part of the city, to Bielany Hospital. At 1:42 he drove in the opposite direction to the traffic. It's an infrequent occurrence. But it was because plac Zawiszy is always terribly jammed and it was the only chance to drive continually.
for an different signals they use because all of them have diffrerent noise level and it could be heard at many diffrent ways, this is not only different siren.
In polish licence plates we have two letters means city and max 5 digits. Sometimes there are digits and letters but it means nothing specjal. Two letters are when licence plates are from city, three letters are from [Landkreis] z.b DW- city Wroclaw [Breslau], DWR - Landkreis Wroclaw. In Germany you have one, two or three letters
the concept of "corridor of life" mentioned by many people here in the comments came to Poland from Germany I thought. It's the idea that if an emergency vehicle is behind you then: if you are on the far left lane you navigate to the farthest side of the road on the left (or beyond it) and if you are on any other lane you move furthest to the right (or beyond it). This is also true anytime the traffic on the highway stops, you will likely not know why it stopped and that's why you are to assume there was an accident. So even without an emergency vehicle present/heard/seen in your rearview mirror, the drivers will do what I have described above, and then this corridor is created so the coming emergency services can get through quite quick. Therefore its called "corridor of life". Those rules are very simple so they are easy to follow by drivers, and because only far left lane moves to the left edge and every other lane is to move right, the emergency responders have a very good idea wich part of the road will be cleared. Its a win-win situation (including Babcia)
Też jestem zdziwiona że ludzie z innych krajów głównie spoza Europy się dziwią że coś takiego jak korytarz życia istnieje. MINDFUCK że to nie obowiązuje wszędzie... myślałam że to standard, ale nie... niestety nie.
when it comes to Polish registrations, they consist of two parts: 1. origin of registration where the first letter means the voivodeship (for example S for Silesia) and two for the county (for example K for Katowice or RA for Krakow) 2. the second part of the registration is a sequence of 4 or 5 random characters used to identify the car
Kiedy miałam problem zdrowotny w Niemczech, moja niemiecka znajoma wezwała jedną karetkę pogotowia ratunkowego do mnie ale przyjechały trzy niemieckie karetki 🤗 na sygnale
This siren is called literally "drover", or more accurete is "the one who hurries people", it's goal is to make people more aware that they should get the hell out of the way.
I have a movie suggestion for you. The title is 1944 - 2014. It is a tribute paid by the current Polish commandos from JWK from Lubliniec (Military Commando Unit) to the Polish partisans from the Home Army (AK) from the Miotła, Zośka and Parasol battalion. It's worth seeing just for the view of the mountains and looking for grandma's GRANDCHILDREN
Servus! -and yes, we Poles do say Serwus as well. the guy on the sign is obviously different, because it represents Janusz, typical Pole, not Helmut nor Klaus.
@@Mania26 Vielleicht liegt es daran, dass ich nie Englisch gelernt habe. Warum spricht er dann, wenn er Deutscher ist, auf dem Kanal Englisch? Und da du so schlau bist, werde ich dir vielleicht, wenn er anfängt, Deutsch zu sprechen, auch eine so dumme Frage stellen, warum du jetzt ein paar einfache Sätze auf Deutsch nicht verstehst. Und dass man Deutsch lernen musste. 😅
@@Barbarossaa-c9b Vielleicht liegt es daran, dass ich nie Englisch gelernt habe. Warum spricht er dann, wenn er Deutscher ist, auf dem Kanal Englisch? Und da du so schlau bist, werde ich dir vielleicht, wenn er anfängt, Deutsch zu sprechen, auch eine so dumme Frage stellen, warum du jetzt ein paar einfache Sätze auf Deutsch nicht verstehst. Und dass man Deutsch lernen musste. 😂
@@CichowskyXD, you wasted life learning German if you don't live and work in Germany rigth now, uselless shitty language. Why don't you learn Latin ? Suprisignly it have more uses than German as it's still needed in medicine and law.
Different tones of the siren correspond better in open/closed areas also apparently some tones are heard better by pedestrians and better when you are in a car with an engine running.
9:30 actually first letter is for the voivodeship, next one/two are for city or "powiat" (idk if it translates), and another five signs are random combinations usually two letters - three numbers or three numbers - two letters as specific identification number
u have to make "life corridor" for ambulance, someday you may lay in it and need others to go to hospital in it asap, and that's why u ALWAYS move your asses out of the way :)
In Poland, drivers take this as an honor point to get out of the way of the ambulance as quick as possible (less so for the police xD ). If someone does not get away immidiately he is cursed at by everyone in sight and then gets mean looks :D
Fucking true... ktoś tu na prawdę był w Polsce
@@grzegorzmarzec2793 Albo jest Polakiem
I tak powinno być. Życie ludzkie jest wartością nadrzędną.
Eco protesters don't seem to follow to this rule tho... 😢
Ale ich wszyscy już dawno nienawidzą 😆
@@BoomBoomBoomUwU This rule is certainly observed by those who poison other people in the name of their own freedom.
Ale ich, oprócz osobników ze zgniłymi mózgami, również wszyscy nienawidzą.
Because in Poland there is (in a good way) social pressure to do this - "what if it was Your grandma in that ambulance?". And You always want to keep Your babcia in the good health :)
Yeah pritty mutch a sentance we all heard
My father was 3 times in ambulance riding like this across Warsaw like we see here. Maybe that Polish habit saved his life 3 times so far, so we can still be happily together.
It's not pressure but culture and respect.
There are 4 main siren types and all of them serve a different purpose:
1. Wail (the 'american' one) - used in open spaces while driving relatively slowly, as they are heard the best from distance
2. Yelp (faster tone) - used when driving fast or approaching intersections
3. Priority (the fastest one) - utilized in tight spaces like when there are lots of buildings around blocking the sound. It has the best effect at smaller distances. Sometimes used on intersections as well
4. Hi-Lo (the 'german' one) - approaching and entering intersections, can be used as an addition to other siren (eg. Wail and Hi-Lo so you have both long and short distance effectivness)
These tones were developed because of the way people react to different types of noise and the effective distance of them, so they are as efficient as possible
They also attract more attention when the siren changes, and they sound cool
This!
Thanks a lot, Bro! Didn't knew that there's this acoustic significance, but when I think now, I feel so stupid that I didn't thought of that. :D
Nie wiedzialam. Dzieki
As a Polish Person i thought he just got f**king bored and started playing with the sirens 😭🙏
I am a Polish truck driver and i had a difficult time in Germany. Taking the break on the parking near the Dortmund i suddenly felt dizzy, and my eyes didn't work as normally, i felt accelerated heart beating. I went out from the truck and screaming for help (the panic reaction), and some man called for ambulanse. He calmed me down a little bit, i'm grateful for this german guy he stayed with me. He propably saved my life.
Współczuję, kłopoty ze zdrowiem w obcym kraju to nic przyjemnego. Co to było, problemy z sercem? Mam nadzieję, że to już przeszłość i wszystko ok. Pozdrawiam 👍
@@adriannaszudrzynska9371 Miałem ciśnienie na takim poziomie że panowie z pogotowia stwierdzili że to szok że jeszcze nie miałem udaru. Okazało się w później w badaniach że miałem, ale tzw. "mikroudar" , w szpitalu dobrze się mną zajęli, odkąd biorę leki wszystko jest ok.
Korytarz życia powinien wszędzie funkcjonować a nie dziwić ❤️🇵🇱karetka ma kilka różnych sygnałów
sluszna prawda tak jak inne pojazdy uprzywilejowane wiem jak sam wylem w Warszwie to jechalem autobusem akurat to kierowca autobusu zjechal polowa autobusy zeby zrobic przejazd strazy pozarnej a kawalem dalej palil sie jeden z budynkow mieszkalnych w bloku
Ale pewnie prawa jazdy nie masz żeby się dowiedzieć jak to wygląda naprawdę? ;) Paniusia siedząca w samochodzie czy pan, który pokłócił się właśnie z żoną na światłach nie zerka co 3 sekundy w lusterka i słyszy syrene 20-30m za autem i dopiero wtedy zaczyna zjeżdżać. Nie ma co liczyć że na 200m przed pojazdem uprzywilejowanym samochody będą się magicznie rozstępować. Podobnie to wygląda na całym świecie nie tylko w PL.
Bo Polska jest zajefajna po prostu! Smród komunizmu i PRLu przemija, kult Polak Polakowi wrogiem przemija do gleby razem komuchami.pozostają jeszcze dzieci które wychowali ale czas i to wymiesza😅
In Poland when you are in a prep course for driver's license you will be taught about a very specific concept that roughly translates in English to "corridor of life". In simple words when you see and ambulance, fire fighters or police on signal you get the hell out of the way. It doesn't matter if it's green or red as long as you don't pose a risk. You get out of the way of said transports because life is at stake. You are supposed to make to a road driveable for them and stop. Additionally this rule is heavily enforced by law and there was a case couple years ago when an idiot wanted to use corridor of life for his personal use and decided to go right behind an ambulance. He was heavily fined and if I remember correctly lost his driver's license. There might also be a case police on signal will escort another car and then the same concept is enforced.
...and when you can't get out of road, U can take speed limit in your bottom. One time, on road in the forrest, with lot of curves, I saw ambulance in mirror. No place to get out, no place to overtake, speed limit 40 kmh. I drive 80-90 kmh to place, where I could slow down, without slowing ambulance
"Emergency corridor". In most of Europe it's great, but in US people quite often don't care. US drivers often don't know what zipper merge is.
@@DonSalieri181 Had the same situation in Austria once on the highway. Construction, speed limit 60km/h, enforced via section control. I saw the ambulance behind me with lights and sirens coming in hot. Nobody wanted to let me merge into the middle lane from the left (3 lane highway). So I just accelerated up to about 90 km/h and switched to the middle lane when I saw a big gap and only then I slowed down. Ambulance even thanked me with a thumbs up and hazards.
It's truth. There is a law you need to stop on the side to give a way for every auto with signal and lights
I may be wrong, but from what I know, the sound from different types of siren propagates differently and they are suitable for various situations. On high speed driving and in more like an open space the different type of tone will be more likely to be heard than on slow speed with heavy traffic. Short tones before intersections are also designed to get attention of drivers in close distance. The driver (or maybe his colleague from right seat) constantly changes siren manually to chose the best one, based on the speed and surrounding. It should be also linked to horn, so by using the horn you can cycle through all types of tones.
Exactly, European sirens are very smart if you compare them to US type, there is a lot of science and engineering behind this tones.
A lot of time driver is switching them manually from radio unit, sometimes control switches are build in to the driving wheel
wait is this not standard behawior all around the world? wtf
ano nie jest, ostatnio pojawiło się wiele filmików tego typu z różnych krajów i naprawdę dobrze wypadamy na tle świata
I don't know what this guy is talking about but in Germany it is mandatory to build up an emergency line.
@@Arch_AngelusI thought so too, that's why I was surprised by the title of this video. I believe in Germany it is even better executed than in Poland.
@@cyklopejaTu bym się kłóciła....nigdy nie widziałam w mieście tak szybkiej karetki jak w Polsce do tego wolniej reagują kierowcy. Bardzo możliwe że to wina tego że dużo jest Ausländerów i tego nie znają (mieszkam w mieście 1.5mln)
@@cyklopeja nie ma różnicy, jest to samo
Prosta zasada - ustąp miejsca karetce, następnym razem to ty możesz być w karetce.
Albo na nią czekać.
Yellow around a crosswalk sign means there is a school nearby.
No, the yellow sign with children holding a lollypop means that. The yellow fluorescent border is for better noticeability in more dangerous places or highly used cross walks.
to prawda, piękne i ważne - w końcu ktoś potrzebuje pomocy a kiedyś to może być każdy z nas
It has different sirens because you can hear the different sirens better based on where you are (for example, highway, high density area, etc.)
In Poland we calling this car KARETKA or AMBULANS or ERKA the last one means letter R on the side of car which means REANIMATION = the highest emergency, people in bad condition
The mix of different signals is very helpful because after hearing the same pattern our brains get accustomed to them and we tend to pay less attention to them. Mixing prevents that.
What's more impressive is that all those ambulances have manual transmissions! They have to shift gears and concentrate, amazing!
Almost all cars in Poland have manual transmissions and you have to learn it during course for the licence. Shifting transmissions is not that hard after few hours of training and nowadays it is even easier (it was very hard with double-clunch techniques in 1950s, but it is easy now).
Not impressive, it's normal. Automatics are lazy af and no way to drive a car. Might as well have AI driving you cos you can't be bothered to do it yourself. I drive gear a car with shift gears and would never exchange for automatic.
@monikaprzymuszala4183
Not impressive to you because you are Polish and see this everyday, you grew up with it. On the flip side of the coin, you are totally wrong. Try driving a manual in Yew York traffic, better yet try driving to DC or LA. You'll be begging for an automatic when you're stuck in traffic for 3 to 6 hrs.
@@PeterPortev it is exactly where manual is better. Automatic needs some momentum to work. In a jam it is useless. And on a highway there is no difference really. You go to 6th gear and stay there for ages
With automatic transmission the dynamics of their driving would be poorer, I dare say😂
Krakenwagen in polish is most commonly "karetka" which its is a diminutive from the word "kareta" which means "carriage". Technically its called "karetka pogotowia ratunkowego" eng. "emergency readiness carriage". "Ambulans" is also another term that is used.
My friend used to work as paramedic and at bad days (you know, when they had multiple deceases on their watch they would turn to dark humor to cope and call their Krakenwagen "trumna" eng. "coffin".
3:30 using button on steering wheel to communicate „get the f&@k off my way” ;)
Drivers are obliged to create a so-called emergency corridor when an emergency vehicle is driving.
Many years ago I had a visit from several American ladies in Poland. They were really impressed by the drivers' answer to the ambulance but then they said no one would give pull away in the USA because when one does other cars try to take advantage and hop into the empty space. I told them that it's about a human's life so who cares if someone takes advantage or not? They said, still it wouldn't work in the USA.
Your reaction is funny. Almost 99% people in Poland think "corridor of life" is import from German road practices.
Indeed it is, i don't know what he is talking about or hes gotten his drivers license in a 4 week cours. My drivers licens 36 years ago was around 6 month an 800 € (around 1600 Deutsch Mark) And the Rescue Lane is Mandatory in Germany. Fines: between 200 and 240 euros depending on the type of violation. Points in Flensburg: A violation of the rescue lane can result in 2 points in Flensburg. Driving ban: A one-month driving ban can also be imposed as a sanction.
@@Arch_Angelus it looks like he wanted to make a video just for attention. Many Poles come to watch such videos and generate traffic with comments. For me these reactions are unbearable. Just notice how delayed is his reaction for stuff like driving the wrong way or using different sirens - he needs to think what to say to make it look legitimate. Truth is we are quite well reacting to emergency vehicles, but there's a lot to improve. Many times I've seen people get scared and just stop in the middle (like the car in the 2:20 - driver just stopped, waiting wasn't intentional, they only had no clue what to do, and kind of blocked the road instead of driving further) or even making weird maneouvers while the light was green. The biggest issue is in case of a highway emergency - we often form the life corridor when emergency vehicle arrives (firefighters are first most of the times, so it goes faster with their horns, but still help is much later) and when it's actually properly done, some idiots choose to reverse using them or turn around and drive like that to the nearest exit, which can be a few kilometers back.
Wzruszająca jest ta solidarnośc kierowców
I love how Chris gets excited about siren sound. Priceless ❤
Ja też zawsze zjeżdżam najszybciej jak to możliwe, pamiętajcie, w tej karetce może być ktoś z waszych znajomych lub rodziny... Warto zachowywać się jak człowiek, zawsze. Pozdrawiam :)
Police car - radiowóz or simply policja (police)
Ambulance - Ambulans, karetka, pogotowie,
Fire truck - (wóz strażacki) or simply straż (fire rescue)
w Polsce ciągle jest zasada ze "od pieniędzy droższe jest tylko słowo honoru i ludzkie życie"
Jak Cebula w potrzebie to nie ma że boli, trzeba Ją ratować :D Jak mnie kiedyś ratowali to jechali ze 150 po mieście, aż musiałem się trzymać łóżka żeby nie wylądować na podłodze (byłem w pasach ale kto by po morfinie na to zwracał uwagę xD)
Ty jesteś cebula?
@@Wojciech_Chmielewski Oczywiście i Ty też tyle że jeszcze z tyczką w tyłku xD
@@ZenonAqua
Mów za siebie młotku POliniacki. Ja jestem Polakiem.
Dziękujemy ci Chris Poland że jesteś Polska cię kocha❤
It was not discipline as much as deep empathy for those in need. There is a rule as well and it's called the corridor of life. It's just the little thing you can do to help thw emergency car deliver their help. And as much as we Poles have a lot to learn from Germans, you are welcome to learn about the emergency service in Poland. It's one of the best in the world.
Zasada jest prosta, jak słyszysz syrenę to spierniczasz z drogi pojazdu uprzywilejowanego z włączoną syreną do najbliższego pasa ruchu jeśli jest ich kilka, a jak nie ma to do najbliższego krawężnika, chodnika, pobocza i stoisz i nie masz prawa się ruszyć dopóki nie przejedzie wóz uprzywilejowany na syrenie. Masz też obowiązek umożliwić to innemu kierowcy aby też się zmieścił. Nie ma zmiłuj bo mandaty są wysokie i zjedzą cię inni kierowcy.
nie do końca, skrajny lewy pas ma zawsze obowiązek zjechać w lewą stronę, a pozostałe pasy zawsze w prawo
This is the first thing we learn when starting to drive - if you hear an ambulance you get out the way asap as if it was a member of your family in there. Every second counts.
Corridor of life ❤🚑
The sound of the siren has different “lengths.” Depending on whether the ambulance is between blocks or cars or a vacant lot, this sound reverberates differently from its surroundings. That's why different signals are used because depending on the surroundings it is then better heard.
The yellow pedestrian extra sign is for places were there's school nearby and lots of kids crosses those crosswalks.
About our license plates: First letter marks the voivodeship (province), next one or two marks the city "powiat" which is a smaller region administrated by the largest city in that area. So you could say that's those letters marks the city, yes. Next 4 or 5 are random sequence of letters and numbers. There's some restriction about where and which character can appear but it's still random. So... to summarize: left part is the province and city where the car was registered. Right part is randomly assigned letters and numbers.
I'm Polish, and I saw my first corridor of life on a highway in Austria while coming from a vacation in Italy. It's an amazing experience to see, the entire highway in front of you, go sideways.
The yellow signs are often in a close relation to schools where there is a high possibility of children walking through the passing for the drivers to be extra cautious and/ or there might be a dedicated person that will help children to cross the road.
It is called in our language 'tunel życia (life tunnel)', when cars give way to the ambulance, police, fire brigade, and it looks like just such a tunnel
I'm Polish and nice to hear that someone (from a "better" country in particular) is impressed about us.
Also I was a bus driver in Warsaw, Wrocław, Kraków and Grudziądz and I assure - it looks same everywhere...
Krankenwagen is in Polish: karetka/ ambulans.
Btw., when you have asked the question regarding licence plate numbers, this was in Popiełuszko Street, close to my home in my earliest childhood and when I have studied in Warsaw after coming back from Berlin.
And the ambulance drove to a hospital where e.g. I was born and my grandmother died...memories will never pass away 🥹
so about plates in poland for personal carsthey have 7 characters in total
first 2 or 3 characters says where car was registered
1st is always letter determined by województwo (bigest administration unit)
2nd or 2nd and 3rd are letters determined by powiat (unit one step lower)
rest of the characters can be numbers or letters, letters that are similar to numbers like O and 0 or B and 8 cannot be used
1:09 If school is nearby only...
The rule is - first lane on the feft moves to the left, all other lanes move to the right!
yeah, that line that forms when cars go to sides is called "lifeline", and in law if u have someone injured in your car (let's say the person by your side is bleeding and you can't stop it) you can go right after the ambulance to save that person.
Also it exists, bcs it was encouraged, I still remember simple poster that said "pozwól życiu wygrać!", that translates to "let the life win the race!" and there was ambulance standing right next to death, I'm not sure if it's still somewhere, but now considering how deep it's embeded into one's mentality there's no way that anyone will ever forget
This is exact surprise reaction I had in 1997 on the motorway in... Germany
The plates in poland are as follows Voivodship letter, town letter, then number. The letters in the number are used to keep it as short as possible, in the sense that the sequence goes from 0-Z.
9:08 first letter means one of 16 voivodeships (province), next 1 or 2 letters are city (or district). After space are random numbers and letters.
In Poland the two-lane road treated like it's just a suggestion, especially out in the country. I was late arriving for a funeral, flying in from the United States, and I remember we got a taxi, and it was a five hour death ride of always taking the "third lane," bribing cops who pulled you over for speeding, etc.
2:20 you know that cows have started flying when a BMW driver is the driver in the right line who gives the right of way
Chcesz być pomocny , a możesz tylko usunąć się z drogi ,wszystko.
only thing drivers from warsaw can do properly lol
Iwrocker give Poland and Germany aplause
very cool of u to learn about our country, much respect
I am a Pole. Our driving culture has improved considerably in recent years. I've been to Germany several times and the driving culture there is even better than ours.
You can be 30 seconds late to work, but the ambulance can't. That's why you need to give way to them.
I love when in Polish you have worlds like Czołg (Tank) and in german you have Panzerkampfwagen saying this is like commiting long term war crime
usually, it is 3 letters followed by 4 digits. Then the letters indicate the province and the city where the vehicle is registered.
Macie się czego uczyć od Polaków!
Polnische Einsatzfahrzeuge haben ein paar verschiedene Sirenen, weil sie in verschiedenen Situationen auf dem Weg benutzt werden, zum Beispiel: "wilk" (Wolf) wird benutzt wenn die Straßen eher leer sind, aber "pies" (Hund) und "le-on" werden benutzt um eine Kreuzung oder eine Straße leer zu machen. Zusätzlich RTWs und Feuerwehrfarzeuge haben pneumatische Signale (z.B. Martin Horn oder andere).
The ambulance in polsih is called Karetka Pogotowia or ambulans.
If you dont get on the side, the other ppl will curse you, shout at you...and trust me, you dont want to stand on ambulance's way 😅
I think its the same in America where we have a quick siren like here > 3:47 for packed areas and streets (because its better at singaling at short range). A long Wail for Highways and roads like here > 2:53 (Because its more hearable at long range). And just a normal horn/air horn to signal that you need to move or not to go because you will pass at the Intersection like here > 3:15 (Because its aggressive and gets your attention easily). We also have diffrent tones separate for Police (Policja), Emergency Medical Service (Państwowe Ratownictwo Medyczne) and the Fire Department (Straż Pożarna).
I was recently in Seoul, South Korea, and I was shocked that the ambulance and the firetruck were totally ignored. They had to stop at the red light and wait, no cars moved to give the way.
Car plates are little bit different than the German ones.
Poland is divided on 16 voivodeships and 314 powiaty (66 of them are biggest cities which are powiat on it's own)
First part contains two or three letters (two for biggest cities, three for smaller powiat's.
First letter is always about voivodeship (like land in Germany), and the second (and optional third) are for powiats.
Then you have 4-5 signs (mixed variations of letters and numbers) refering to individual vehicles.
Except for Warsaw, which uses various three-letter codes for each district instead of one two-letter code for the whole city. Some cities are now also introducing additional codes, because they ran out of possible combinations. Most notably, Gdańsk will start issuing the plates starting with XD.
@@Vengir that only happened because we don't have ability to reuse old plate
@@kahtyman7293 Yes, we do since a year or so.
To be more precise, the rule behind two or three letters in the first part relates to whether it's a "standalone" city that has county rights ("miasto na prawach powiatu") or just a typical county ("powiat") with both cities and rural areas. Cities take two letters, counties take three. There are some oddballs though, as in rural counties with two-letter codes, probably due to their size (two-letter codes allow for about 1.24 million plates while three-letter codes yield about 867 thousand - the numbering schema are designed so that numbers do not repeat when the space is removed), but there are only 8 such counties nationwide (and two of them received two-letter codes as their second code). The opposite is also true (Żory city with SZO plates from the very beginning and two other cities when they run out of their first allocation).
Most of Warsaw city actually uses two-letter codes, except for three districts sharing WW (with different letters in the last 7th position) and one district taking a slice of WX out of another one.
@@peteru18 Just a note, there are no counties in Poland.
You can say whatever you want about polish people but we are always helping in need. We love to help. Its natural
I was driving in a ambulance in poland and it feelt like we were making gap between cars.
You asked for name. Krankenwagen in Polish is KARETKA or AMBULANS but I think most commonly used term is simply POGOTOWIE (RATUNKOWE) which is same as German "Rettungsdienst" or English/American "Emergency Service".
Hello From Poland ❤❤ this is the corridor of life ❤❤ drivers must give way to the service otherwise there are severe penalties ❤❤
With how dynamic this ride was, it should be made into a video game. Give the players a *real* reason to rush through the city, while penalizing them for any car crashes. With underlying teaching about proper emergency vehicle response.
3:34 Because if you are hearing one type of siren it drives you mad / hypnotizes you as driver
We call this "korytarz życia"(corridor of life) it makes all drivers on the road to make a driveble path for medical cars, fire trucks and police cars when they have siren on. When police workers, ambulanse drivers of fire fighters use a siren without good reason they can loose thier job or even end up in jail(sorry for my bad english) Ambulanse are called "karetka" or "ambulans" in polish
the yellow signs is added to mark pedestrian crossings near schools.
I always move away from emergency vehicles. It is a duty, otherwise one can pay a fine. The itinerary was strange. He started in the Ochota district near the big university hospital and traveled about 15 km to the northern part of the city, to Bielany Hospital. At 1:42 he drove in the opposite direction to the traffic. It's an infrequent occurrence. But it was because plac Zawiszy is always terribly jammed and it was the only chance to drive continually.
for an different signals they use because all of them have diffrerent noise level and it could be heard at many diffrent ways, this is not only different siren.
In polish licence plates we have two letters means city and max 5 digits. Sometimes there are digits and letters but it means nothing specjal. Two letters are when licence plates are from city, three letters are from [Landkreis] z.b DW- city Wroclaw [Breslau], DWR - Landkreis Wroclaw. In Germany you have one, two or three letters
the concept of "corridor of life" mentioned by many people here in the comments came to Poland from Germany I thought.
It's the idea that if an emergency vehicle is behind you then: if you are on the far left lane you navigate to the farthest side of the road on the left (or beyond it) and if you are on any other lane you move furthest to the right (or beyond it).
This is also true anytime the traffic on the highway stops, you will likely not know why it stopped and that's why you are to assume there was an accident. So even without an emergency vehicle present/heard/seen in your rearview mirror, the drivers will do what I have described above, and then this corridor is created so the coming emergency services can get through quite quick. Therefore its called "corridor of life".
Those rules are very simple so they are easy to follow by drivers, and because only far left lane moves to the left edge and every other lane is to move right, the emergency responders have a very good idea wich part of the road will be cleared.
Its a win-win situation (including Babcia)
to nie jest impominujace To jest ratowanie ludzkieo ZYCIA nic wiecej a moze tak duzo!!!!
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Też jestem zdziwiona że ludzie z innych krajów głównie spoza Europy się dziwią że coś takiego jak korytarz życia istnieje. MINDFUCK że to nie obowiązuje wszędzie... myślałam że to standard, ale nie... niestety nie.
Korytarz życia to super sprawa. Nie wiem czy jest taki w innych państwach.
when it comes to Polish registrations, they consist of two parts:
1. origin of registration where the first letter means the voivodeship (for example S for Silesia) and two for the county (for example K for Katowice or RA for Krakow)
2. the second part of the registration is a sequence of 4 or 5 random characters used to identify the car
Kiedy miałam problem zdrowotny w Niemczech, moja niemiecka znajoma wezwała jedną karetkę pogotowia ratunkowego do mnie ale przyjechały trzy niemieckie karetki 🤗 na sygnale
This siren is called literally "drover", or more accurete is "the one who hurries people", it's goal is to make people more aware that they should get the hell out of the way.
The different sound is when he is on the crossroad or there are pedestrians
Difrence sirens is to bounce sound wave from buildings and cars in different ways so u cen hear them better or quicker
Listen Paul Van Dyk - Emergency Greatings from Poland
Salut Je n'ai te jamais rencontré mais tu es calquant de bien , merci !!!
Karetka dojechala do szpitala Bielanskiego w Warszawie
Errr.. Germany. Highway. It was one epic video made American jaws drop. We still have to learn from you and you know it😉
Funny thing: regarding stuff like this we always say in Poland we need to learn from the organised Germans. :D
In Poland ambulance driver risking his own life or career much more often then in other countries what I now in EU. Thanks for video
On the boards, the first letter is the province and the next letters are the cities and numbers
voivodeship - no province
I have a movie suggestion for you. The title is 1944 - 2014. It is a tribute paid by the current Polish commandos from JWK from Lubliniec (Military Commando Unit) to the Polish partisans from the Home Army (AK) from the Miotła, Zośka and Parasol battalion. It's worth seeing just for the view of the mountains and looking for grandma's GRANDCHILDREN
Poland💪🍀
That siren its european Federal Signal Vama AS 380 and at 3:18 its horn of siren
Servus! -and yes, we Poles do say Serwus as well. the guy on the sign is obviously different, because it represents Janusz, typical Pole, not Helmut nor Klaus.
Dlaczego ostatnio nie dajesz polskich napisów do filmu?
Dlaczego nie potrafisz zrozumieć prostych zdań po angielsku? XD
Zebys sie angielskiego zaczal uczyc.
@@Mania26 Vielleicht liegt es daran, dass ich nie Englisch gelernt habe. Warum spricht er dann, wenn er Deutscher ist, auf dem Kanal Englisch? Und da du so schlau bist, werde ich dir vielleicht, wenn er anfängt, Deutsch zu sprechen, auch eine so dumme Frage stellen, warum du jetzt ein paar einfache Sätze auf Deutsch nicht verstehst. Und dass man Deutsch lernen musste. 😅
@@Barbarossaa-c9b Vielleicht liegt es daran, dass ich nie Englisch gelernt habe. Warum spricht er dann, wenn er Deutscher ist, auf dem Kanal Englisch? Und da du so schlau bist, werde ich dir vielleicht, wenn er anfängt, Deutsch zu sprechen, auch eine so dumme Frage stellen, warum du jetzt ein paar einfache Sätze auf Deutsch nicht verstehst. Und dass man Deutsch lernen musste. 😂
@@CichowskyXD, you wasted life learning German if you don't live and work in Germany rigth now, uselless shitty language. Why don't you learn Latin ? Suprisignly it have more uses than German as it's still needed in medicine and law.
Chris Greetings from Warsaw 😊
Polska górom!
Different tones of the siren correspond better in open/closed areas also apparently some tones are heard better by pedestrians and better when you are in a car with an engine running.
9:30 actually first letter is for the voivodeship, next one/two are for city or "powiat" (idk if it translates), and another five signs are random combinations usually two letters - three numbers or three numbers - two letters as specific identification number
u have to make "life corridor" for ambulance, someday you may lay in it and need others to go to hospital in it asap, and that's why u ALWAYS move your asses out of the way :)
In Polish its either "Ambulans","Karetka" or "Pogotowie"
Police patrol just noticed ambulance and decided to help it go through nearest road jam.