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True, but I'm still a little traumatized by a situation with a police officer who was quite grumpy and rude to me. I was trembling with fear I already had for the police.

Dutch police are _very_ different from American cops. Their primary purpose isn't to enforce the law at any cost, but to employ force _where necesary._ Emphasis on trying everything else first, and force is giving up on the puzzle.

There's a 'rule' to remove the bag before the children see the bear. Years ago a child got a bear and started to cry because it was suffocating, 'you may never put your head in a plastic bag' is what children are told. Since then they remove the bags earlier ;) BTW. You might like 'ru-vid.com' Those are railroadpeople who come to help after accidents and malfunctions. Think of broken down trains but also jumpers ...

I never knew about the trauma teddies but goddamn that's a wonderful sentiment Godver wat mooi

@@darkmystryz It is a small investment with enormous results, it can take a child out of the shock of the moment, and bring it back to 'normality', applied shortly after impact. Like a 'vrolijke pleister' (Happy band aid) can help a kid to see something amusing instead of the wound under it. Great little things!

Some pieces of highway also monitor traffic with induction loops. The moment speeds become low or there's active congestion, they will automatically show speed restrictions or if there's a sudden standstill of a vehicle, that lane can be crossed off. It's pretty amazing how well it works.

@@Dutch3DMaster TIL I didn't know that. That's fantastic engineering work.

You should have a problem if you make a dutch cop angry. They may be wrong frome time to time but its very difficult to get them angry under normal circumstances. Ussualy you f-ed up if you do so and not the otherway around.

@@arturobianco848 you are 100% right, in my opinion. Ik was a truck driver and harde soms penalty's, buy, i deserved Them. Alsof ik asked the Copa sometimes for help, and they came. Buy we always had respect

Freedom? Safety!

not 100% it is also used to creats a bit of a safe place for the people to go (atleast that is the theorie thos fuckers ignoring the crosses.....)

Remember, these aren't long-connection roadways. These are more like the New England DC-area net: Lots of cities near eachother connected by short-ish stretches of motorway.

@@JoshSweetvale Except that the short-ish motorways are not short at all. Motorways do connect cities, but they do not change into another kind of road when they reach a city. Motorways are laid around cities, like this one. The motorway in this video is the A13 near Rotterdam. It goes from the A20 junction in Rotterdam to the A4 junction in The Hague. You can get from Dordrecht to The Hague without ever leaving the motorway, although you will see many motorway numbers and junctions on that particular route: A16, A15, A16 again, A20, A13, a small stretch of the A4 and finally the A12. The A12 terminates in the city centre of The Hague, it is really uncommon for a motorway to terminate in a city. Maybe that A12 is the only one in a major city in NL.

@@darkknight8139 Closing down a long straight Nevada-esque highway: Asinine Closing down a commuter highway: Makes more sense.

@@JoshSweetvale The A7 highway which runs through my city, is the longest highway in my country and has matrix signs (what the electronic signs capable of rescinding all speed restrictions that are on permanent signs are called in Dutch) all over it. You will see these everywhere, and they are not used only for speed restrictions or requests to evacuate a lane, but also to fully stop a highway full of traffic towards a tunnel when the height-profile radar systems have sensed a truck that won't fit into the tunnel and did not deviate of course towards the tunnel, lowering gates to stop all traffic into the tunnel at the moment the truck is predicted to be close to the tunnel entry. The whole procedure there looks like this: Matrix signs flash on indicating an icon that shows a triangular sign with traffic lights in them, signalling traffic: "Be aware you are going to see a red light on a highway!" (Regular traffic lights are uncommon on Dutch highways, hence the indication). After a while a yellow/amber light will come on, indicating: "You need to stop if you can, but otherwise continue on." After that it will obviously start showing a red light and the gates will come down, fully closing off the whole highway, along with another sign in between the signs showing the traffic lights saying something like: "TRUCK HEIGHT OUT OF BOUNDS - WAIT FOR HIGHWAY AUTHORITY" (this is automatic, they get an alarm as soon as a truck does not deviate from the tunnel's path, they are usually there within 1-2 minutes because with some important tunnels, one of their bases is right around the corner). They then measure the trucks near the gates with their height profile indicator and every truck to high is taken out and driven off to a site for either route instructions to follow, or a fine. Further back signs will light indicating a speed restriction to stop the risk of people slamming into the back of the traffic jam that has been created by the full stop of the truck that's to high and has caused all traffic to stop. After the tunnel entrance has been cleared of the trucks, the traffic sign icons disappear, and the gates go up, and the red lights might stay on for a while until they are sure everything is reset and traffic can be on it's way again, upon which the traffic lights either stop showing a red and go off, or show a green for some time only to then go off.