in Poland blue plates it embassy workers green electric car yellow oldtimers/clasic cars

@@supreme3376 Blue background and black letters in Dutch is taxi / uber etc diplomatic plates are Blue background and yellow/gold letters

​@@supreme3376Not only in Poland, blue plates are international designation for cars for diplomats. So it's very confusing to have similar plates for taxis. Although diplomatic cars should also have a smaller oval CD plate.

Interesting, in sweden the blue plates are for embassy and the yellow are for taxi

Than we have also the green plates for cars who belongs by a garage, for testdrives

Same!

Maybe other countries can learn from this.

Imagine being a Dutch guy watching an American watching Dutch traffic 😅

Imagine being the driver watching some American dude comment ;-)

There you say something ... Maybe because it's KZfaq and the world wide web and you can watch everything that you think that is interesting. What I don't understand that you watch something while the title is pretty clear what you are going to watch , and you watch it and then ask why you watch it . But here you are .

Can you imagine me freaking out while driving a truck?😅😅

Thank you! With love from the Netherlands!

You are a cool neighbor to 😘

So few speak German now.

@@baronmeduse I'm sorry.

@@baronmeduse there are wayyyyy way more dutch people speaking german than the other way around

Those kind of instructors are the best!!

During code lessons, my instructor always added "and the firefighters, don't forget them, it could be an injury, a fire - and don't forget, gas too" (as firefighters also go to emergencies for gas leaks)

Did she wear a leather outfit?

Had a similar instructor. We would be chatting, and he'd distract me by pointing out hotties in the summer, but when a siren was heard, he told me to STFU AND MAKE SURE YOU MOVE YOUR ASS OUT OF THE WAY IN A SAFE AND PREDICTABLE WAY! Same reasoning as yours, and it's what i told my kid as well. He also offered us a "slipcursus" (Skid course?) where we learned to control a skidding car and not panic etc before we even had our license. Bailed me out of a wreck once or twice.

@@pistonburner6448 koekwous

Oh nice, thanks for that bit of info ☺

Yeah that happens here in Australia too, I was told that they have a button to press that changes the lights as they approach them.

We have that in the USA as well. Actually we've had it for decades but in a simpler form.

Just like all line-busses. We bus drivers have also a system, named “KAR-systeem” to get green light.

Dutch traffic lights are most efficient than compared to most traffic lights outside the Netherlands, but I don't like how Dutch traffic lights just goes from red to green like in the US.

I'm also pretty sure our testing standards are higher and are also very much based on ensuring drivers have the kind of driving skills that help in a situation like this. Like the very strong focus on 'defensive driving', quick response time and spatial awareness.

I'm 99% sure the car was a yellow fiat panda from the 2000s. Based on the fact I own that exact same car, in the same color and everything

The yellow car in the video is not a 2000's car @@Charuchii

thats bc basicly everything is reachable with a bicycle and no traffic issues while cycling

@@ultimatebo3noob710 And also no hard uphill sections because the netherlands is so flat.

I live in Cambridge. It's quite similar in terms of numbers of bikes (and electric scooters/mopeds), but the cycling infrastructure is not as good as in Amsterdam. It's gradually getting done, in part because we have robot delivery vehicles that sometimes get stuck at traffic lights!

There are several problems with cars in the Netherlands a) narrow streets in old settlements no parkling place b) expensive insurance c) car tax - paid quarterly by vehicle weight, engine type d) good connection by train (mostly)

Copenhagen is also a "cycle" city 👍🇬🇧

05:05 contract transport, and that includes taxi's, ubers, medical transport.

bakfiets, or cargo bike kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hc6Ge8tzl6mVp2g.htmlsi=XHx9bIiFa0FCWUhD

Dutch license plate colours: Yellow: regular. Some of the letters can indicate to type of vehicle like commercial, heavy trailer or agricultural. White: light trailer / bicycle rack Blue: taxi Green: dealer plates. Not linked to a specific vehicle and are solely mentioned to move vehicles between dealers and/or test drives.

@@elricthebald870 One to add: Blue with white letters and numbers for oldtimers.

@@PGraveDigger1 that’s dark blue though, and you see them only very seldom. On top of that it’s only for old timers from the era blue plates were standard/allowed.(before 1978)

I must say, I am really impressed by the neat and clean state of your streets. Also, it seems pretty well planned and thought through. I‘ve never been to the Netherlands (yet), but in many ways it seems like the way infrastructure should be here in Germany as well. I don’t know, of course, if this is only a highlight spot, or whether it pretty much looks like this all across the country. Kudos to your perfect way of letting the ambulance pass, btw. I assume that this is also not just an extraordinary fine example, but simply common sense and standard behaviour. Most of the time it works well in Germany, too, but sometimes there are people simply not noticing what is going on around them and/or how to properly react in such cases, thus causing noticeable delays.

This is so smooth, I get almost ashamed for the videos from Germany where people sometimes are struggling to clear a lane or got to close to each other on the Autobahn and struggle to make room. And those are already those the ones where things go well on a normal average level.

Have you ever crossed the border with Belgium. You go from beautiful well maintained tarmac to a damn gravel road😂

@@thierpetersen7907 but only if you miss the pottholes. Oh wait, which direction?

When you cross the border from Netherlands to Belgium, it feels like going back 30 years in time.

In the meantime traffic piles up on the highway because everybody stops to take out their phone and film the wounded or dead people on the other side of the highway

Good mentality. Here in the Netherlands most people are of the mindset that they treat an ambulance with it's sirens on as if there is a relative or close friend in the back.

És így mindig kell lennie And always the thought goes through my head that it could be a friend, loved one or myself in danger, so indeed get the f*ck out of the way!

Yeah, it's really looked down upon to be in the way of an emergency response vehicle in Australia

Sometimes on more complex crossings or multilane roads it's not so clear from the mirror where the emergency vehicle wants to go.

@@reinhard8053 obviously challenging situations can present themselves, this is an emergency after all. The taxi at 2:58 in the video is actually in the exact situation you describe, he assumed the ambulance wants to go straight ahead because of it's lane choice but it actually wants to make a right turn, so he's in the way. The important thing in that case is to just react to resolve the situation as fast as you can while trusting that your fellow road users are doing the same.

Absolutely!

i am so proud when i see this

I think there are really some cultural differences in the Netherlands, and I think across most of Europe, plaing into this behavior. (And yes, some things are slightly exaggerated) First of all, compare how hard in comparison it is in any European country to get a drivers license compared to the US. Both the theoretical training als well as actual driving lessons. Second thing, although there are strong communities in the US, a lot seems to be way more egocentric and not focused on the overall society, which also mirrors in politics, insurance etc.. And don´t get me wrong, they have people caring for the people around them as well as we have egoistic idiots. Also, here people from childhood on learn to be a pedestrian or cyclist in traffic and pay way more attention to traffic around them. In the US it seems everyone is used to only drive and moves along in his or her own isolated metal bubble, not noticing what is going on around them and just registering the bare minimum of traffic signs. Or look at the willingnes of people to administer first aid. It is natural for most of us (although there seems to be a worriing trend to just take pictures and videos on your smartphone these days and get aggressive as soon as first responders tell you you are standing in the way). And while things got a lot better in the US in that regard, many are still scared to get sued if something goes wrong (which from what I understand for quite a while they are, as well as we are, protected from as long as they are not grossly negligent or purposely inflicting harm. I think it is called something like the good samaritan law. While here depending on where you are, you can be held liable for not helping.)

Lol, these images I have in my head now xD But yeah, here in germany it's about the same.

Ye because we all want the same when we would be the one in ambulance.

I also didn't get why it left a hospital only to drive to another one. But this makes sense.

Yes because normally the ride wouldn't be so long. My mom had this she lives in a little village and the ambulance took her 40 km to a specialized hospital.

That explains a lot, thanks! An Ambulance has max 15 minutes to reach his place to be here in the Netherlands. With the clips it was already 15 mins.

And with freezing.

Yeah but we don't really have extreme heat

"Keep open lanes open". Don't stupidly pull over to the right lane if your left lane is blocked by you and other, and the right lane is clear. Hear the siren, check if there are open lanes left or right of your car, and if you might be the single person appearing in a KZfaq video of stupid drivers (i.e. you are the only car blocking the lane). Identify where the siren is coming from - you may not even have to move. And then be careful when moving out of the way.

That would be the textbook version, yes. 😬

@@hb-man It's find it funny that people call drivers stupid, yet cries when stupid drivers gets killed.

Don’t ly! En muil houwuh!

I love that, you're not in a helicopter lol zo Nederlands, zo droog :D

And green plates are 'temporary dealer/garage plates'

green plates are for the dealer/garage for the insurance so people can make test drive.. your welcome :)

Small fun fact that organ transport ambulances also drive with blue plates since they are contracted out with "taxi" companies

White plates can also mean 'German' which in turn usually means 'leadfoot'

​@@JoshSweetvale Or Belgium or Polish or any of the many countries that have white plates. But we're talking about Dutch plates here.

The main downside of ZOAB AFAIK is that it doesn't really do well with freezing temps, if water is stuck in ZOAB and it freezes the ZOAB cracks and it's much more expensive. So it works well for the Netherlands but probably less well in most other places. But the road in the NL are top 3 in the world for sure.

@@TheITWarrior Yeah, it won't do well in Scandinavia, Canada or other countries with a real winter.

​@@TheITWarrior Yeah with drastic temperature differences it gets damaged. We get up to at worst -10C here but also when its 30+ in summer heavier vehicles crack the surface a bit

​@@r.m.97I mean, we have real winters. but climate change has made them less harsh. we have cultural roots in ice skating over rivers

@@TheITWarrior top 2 actually :)

Or people that cannot bike or walk for long, but still can drive. This is common with knee issues for example

It’s probably a Citroën Ami, an electric car that can be driven by 16 year olds with a moped permit.

@@thomasalbrecht5914 14 Years old in France and Italy

The ambulance is likely the MICU Truck (Mobile Intensive Care Unit) somewhere in the end you hear an airhorn, which is generally reserved for trucks in priority vehicle roles (Firetrucks, Crashtenders, Police Busses, and Mobiele Eenheid voertuigen (SWAT vehicles). It's in the section you cut. Check it out. A MICU is a mobile intensive care room for IC to IC transport between hospitals, often a doctor accompanies patients on these.

Very often of the brand "Aixam"

I think Zuidas probably translates to Southern Axis, rather than Axle..?

Everywhere you go, there will always be assholes. Even pedestrians do still face some assholes on the sidewalk.

if children appear alone on bicycles at an intersection, all traffic stops until they leave

​@@tihomirraspericwell thats so not true, not all trafic stops.. to much children die on the road because of idiots looking at their phones and doing other shit.. also children bike around with their headphones in and they really don't give a crap about traffic, they think drivers just need to yield anyways so they can do whatever they want. Biking with 5 people next to each other bloking busy roads and so on.. Technology, young age and traffic never goes together.

@@Limburg92 I'm sorry, I guess I'm in the zone where they pay more attention to children *** as for wearing headphones while driving, i'm shocked it's not illegal in Croatia, if you wear headphones while driving, the fine is higher than for a cell phone

@@tihomirrasperic yea I don't know if it's illegal over here but police don't do nothing about it over here.

Not only pro-options, but also pro-safety, especially for pedestrians and cyclists, so a lot of people take those options with as a very nice fringe benefit that those who for whatever reason take a car also have the necessary space. Imagine all those pedestrians and cyclists taking a car as well, usually with them as driver and only occupant.

Its identical to the Opel Corsa and got as many smaller cars now 3 cylinder engines not 4 as it used to be.

Yes, i dont have one, but i've quite often passed one thinking "damned this looks nice".

@@flashback0994 thats just because Opel is part of the PSA group now. Citroen, Peugeot and Opel have a lot of same parts right now. Just check out their working vans range they re all the same model but with ad different badge. The 3 cylinder engine is used in Fiat 500s too i think.

My mom still has a 208, sadly at the end of it's life, but they sure knew how to make them!

Yeah for some context getting your driving license can take quite a bit of time (6 months or longer is not strange). The average person getting their license in the NL last year spend 3,1K euro and spend more than 40 hours in the car with a professional instructor before attempting their theory and then their practical exam (which are taking at a government institution). And failing your practical is fairly easy, one minor correct can be enough to fail but most of the time they are a bit more lenient.

@@TheITWarrior 3.4k? Damn! I paid 1.2k ten years ago, and it is more expensive now, but still not that high. You also take the first aid class and test, right?

De meeste mensen respecteren julie ook, ondanks de idioten die lopen te rotzooien / rellen.

Once I was driving on a 1-lane road with barriers on both sides. I couldn't move anywhere, and there was a ambulance with sirens behind me. I just floored it, 120km/h on an 80km/h road, and took the first exit hoping to let him pass. He was right behind me the whole time, even when I took the exit where he still couldn't pass hah.

@@gamebuster800 had something similar with police, they basically gave me a hand sign to floor it. 120 on an 80 road wasn't too bad. Does give some adrenaline haha.

@@CyberBeep_kenshi I had to do that once as well. It was only a short distance, but yea, it's an instant shot of adrenaline. :)

@anwiel Yea, these first responders are like commandos! My mom had a stroke and her apartment was locked from the inside. The paramedics came quickly, asked me if they can break in and I said 'yes.' The next second the medic smashed a small window with his walkie-talkie, unlocked the door through the awkward window, cutting himself a little in the process and he didn't even notice. And as far as driving goes. Sometimes normal driving can make you anxious if there are bad drivers on the road. Having to do this daily and not losing their nerves is definitely worthy of big respect.

Stacks and stacks and stacks to the point we have a removal service hahaha

Oh yes. It's art.

I don't know how old you are, but that's kind of sad to hear. I've never been to the Netherlands, but many of my friends were in Amsterdam and a friend of mine lived in Utrecht and later in Maastricht. From what I've seen from the photos and heard from their experiences, you've got lots of things to be proud of!

14:50 it's a small hybrid-electric car that has a little motor (mower motor as a battery charger, I think) it is registered as a car and as a moped (I don't know the exact category and it can even go on bike paths, I think)

Ngl i thought 185 centimeters tall was average height everywhere, i dont even live in the netherlands lol

Tallest country in the world. So yeah can take some getting used too.

183 cm is the avarage in the netherlands as a male but most males are closer to the 190 cm.

Yes, personally I think it is safer. I have driven a car in Canada, where they also have the stoplights at the other side of the crossing, but I didn't like where the traffic lights were. Ofcourse you have to get used to it, but I still think the way we do it in the Netherlands is less confusing and distracting.

Crazy Englishmen :-)

Not being allowed to go pass a red light if there's an ambulance behind with blue lights is just stupid. If there's an ambulance, fire truck and police car with lights on behind, I'm pretty sure running a red while moving over is allowed in all countries in continental Europe.

@@automation7295 Unfortunately in the UK it isnt, I agree its stupid but here you'll get fined for doing so.

@@CrazyInWeston in the Netherlands you can still get a fine when it is an automated red light camera, most of the time when there is an ambulance they get filtered out but of course it is not perfect... easy to fight though which is nice. Got one last week. 2 days later got another letter stating that I did not have to pay because of the ambulance.

Hmm, this comment made me look up the rules for where I live in Western Australia. I found out it's illegal in Western Australia and Tasmania to cross a red light, even if an emergency vehicle is behind you. How ridiculous is that! I would still move across a red light, if safe to do so and take the fine if I had to, to potentially save a life.

Thank you that answers a lot

It’s a longer and bit bigger version of the mercedes sprinter box ambulance.

It used to be a Volvo FL6 but now it is a 519 sprinter with a box and a lift on the back

In the Netherlands most roads have draining asphalt. The water sinks through the asphalt and so there's no layer of water on top. It makes a HUGE difference. Not only do the tires have more grip, but also it improves visibility both because the road and markings are clearly visible but also because there is almost no spray.

@@AHBdV Ah, that stuff is great. The cathedral near me has paths made with the pretty version and it works really well.

Also parking spaces are almost never big enough to fit a big pick-up truck, you are better off with a car with a smaller footprint. Which also makes it harder for vans, but yeah it gives more spaces per square meter.

@@thelaurens1996 Yes, but even parking spaces makes it harder of vans, most vans are still slightly narrower than most American pickup. There's lot of parking spaces usually reserved for vans at all times, or during certain hours.

Only way to qfford pick ups here is to make them work vehicles. Pay 1/3 of insurance and taxes. So called grey license, starts with a V on the license plates

No throttle, just a clutch and brake pedal.

@@badboattail interesting. Mine definitely had 3 pedals on both sides. still have a picture of it.

@@badboattail it must also have a throttle pedal because if the student "freezes", the instructor presses the throttle and moves the car out of danger

@@tihomirrasperic No.. most of the time learner cars only have 2 pedals. One for clutching and one for braking. The instructor doesn't need an accelerator.

@@tihomirrasperic Not true: Het motorrijtuig waarmee rijonderricht in de zin van de Wet rijonderricht motorrijtuigen 1993 wordt gegeven in het kader van de opleiding voor het praktijk-examen voor rijbewijs B, dient te zijn voorzien van: a. inrichtingen die zo zijn aangebracht dat degene die rijonderricht geeft, daarmee de bedrijfsrem en, indien het een motorrijtuig met handschakeling betreft, de koppeling vanaf zijn zitplaats doeltreffend kan bedienen;

Tokyo probably, that has >20 times more people of course but also quite a cycling culture.

@@DenUitvreter You can not compare Amsterdam with Tokyo. (As you said) Tokyo have about 30 million people more than Amsterdam has.

Sings : There are nine million bicycles in Beijing , thats a fact , its a thing we cant deny ....

I'm very curious why someone would have so many bikes. I know about some people who have a cargo bike, a race bicycle and a city bike, but that's about it.

@@carmenl163 I have 2 mountain bikes, 3 cruise bikes and 2 city bikes. My wife has 1 mountain bike, 2 cruise bikes and also 2 city bikes. My son has each for the mountains, cruise and for the city. Maybe he gets soon 1 or 2 bikes more.

In this case both (Amsterdam Zuid).

@@apveening You're probably right 🙂 (Yerseke, Zeeland) 170 km (about 105 miles)

@@MisterJ56 Worked about ten years at Amsterdam WTC, mostly used the train but about once a week I took the car to keep in practice.

Also driving lessons probably help a lot. Most Dutch drivers have at least 30 hours of lessons with a certified instructor, and most likely during at least one of those lessons you have to deal with an ambulance, firetruck or police car. But also using your mirrors and being aware of your surroundings are a big part of the lessons and exam.

I always go by car to work and almost everything outside work is walking or cycling. Most weekends the car is staying idle on the porch.

From OLVG West to OLVG Oost in this case, specifically.

@@RudyBleekerik dacht al, wat een lange rit voor een melding

Also a drivers license is a lot harder to obtain in the Netherlands. The bar is a lot higher and you need to be 18 years of age to drive without a chaperone. On intersections a lot more is managed by priority rules. First come first served is not a thing in the Netherlands. Priority roads are marked using signs and road markings (haaientanden or "shark teeth"). Stop signs are reserved for unclear intersections.

Also because we don't need to drive 10 hours to see a family member

In the Netherlands you should see the line of cars behind the emergency vehicle 😅

US driving test is too short and less strict, even their parents can teach their teenage kid to drive on the public roads.

@@automation7295, till somewhere in the 90s in Belgium parents could teach to drive too, but even then drivers got out of the way of an emergency vehicle. So it has nothing to do with driving school.

​@@lorrefl7072 Then explain why 99.9% of US drivers are poorly trained and don't get out of the way for ambulances or any emergency vehicles? Driving lessons in the US are much shorter, while driving lessons in Europe are far more expensive and stricter.

Americans are just allergic to common sense.

​@@lorrefl7072Of course it has everything to do with that. If you're not properly trained how to drive, you can't properly train your kids how to drive and if the final test isn't very difficult either, you get bad drivers teaching the next drivers and the driving skills get worse with every generation.

So which colour are your diplomatic plates?

@@ane-louisestampe7939 black

@@ane-louisestampe7939 there yellow I believe, but have CD on it for Corp Diplomatique if I'm not mistaken.

@@ane-louisestampe7939 They have yellow plates that start with AA (reserved for them)

@@gvisser5 No. AA = Royal family. CD = Corps Diplomatique. (KD used to be for military vehicles).

It's funny how seeing how people getting out of their way can make people feel proud of being from X country.