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Re:Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, court rules by harperlee on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @09:16AM (#16473488)
> ambulances would be adjusted to walking persons instead of loud cars with their stereos on

German ambulances and firetrucks have an unbelievable siren volume! It is piercing - I have to literally cover my ears if I'm a bystander. I have never heard anything like that in other European countries or the US. So I suspect that you can already lower their volume if you German people were willing to, seeing that it works fine in other places...

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Re:Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, court rules by inetknght on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @09:22AM (#16473541)
I hear it all the time in Houston. I'm pretty sure it's because of high noise plus most modern vehicles trying to reduce or eliminate outside noise. Emergency vehicles need to punch through all that noise reduction.
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