Comment on You know how fire trucks, ambulances, and cars all have strobe lights? Well, if you add up those lights, street by street, there is a single street on earth that has the most strobe lights.

• sxan@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t think so. In one comment someone asked whether they should include signage, b/c Las Vegas would definitely win, and OP answered that it would be interesting to see categories.

  OPs original thought was that, at any given point in time, in the world there exists a street with the most flashing lights. All the examples they gave were cars, and that must include hazards. There isn’t a street in the US that always has an ambulance in it. There may be one where it’s more frequent, as in front of a hospital, but it’s not always. And hazards are maybe less frequent than active ambulance lights, but they’re not rare.

  Hazards aren’t a defect; they’re not a short circuit in someone’s headlights. They’re not someone pumping their brakes - just like a police light, you turn them on and the lights blink until you turn them off.

  How could you include sporadic, flashing ambulance lights but not hazards? I don’t understand the thought process.

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  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Because ambulance lights are most commonly on (at least for half of their trip), while hazards are usually only used a handful of times in the lifetime of a normal car. Under typical operating parameters, it is exponentially more common to see emergency lights on ambulances and police vehicles than it is to see hazards turned on with cars.

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      under typical operating parameters

      Enter food delivery drivers in the city

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