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Now I'm wondering whether they would have attracted some kind of copyright strike 🤔

They would have to pay the klaxon company.

IKR. Disappointing.

Mostly sure its the awooga horn sound.

@@PhilBoswell No, people have been using that sound for over a century. You can find it on Wikipedia. It's not even copyrightable, though it's possible a patent existed on the original horn.

And if there aren't any bushes, we shoot the parts away with a rocket!

If it's a horse-drawn emergency vehicle, then of course!

And if there are no bushes conveniently near by , you have to plant some and wait for them to grow

Nah, only if the emergency vehicle refuses to pass. Usually you can get by with a blanket that resembles the surrounding scenery.

@@mytube001 Hold on now, that's not entirely true. We're not permitted to shoot off rockets in Manhattan, so usually we distribute the pieces to the 3 or 4 nearest doormen who hide them in their large pockets. They get some nice tips that way.

Well that stinks, good thing they cleared the air

@@mirthenary ROFLAMO! {:o:O:}

Did you just make that up, or us it true?

@jagohazzard you are the amusing comment to my QI clip video

So they changed it to FAAAP. Which isn't that much better.

I've never heard "dai", but I'm not Italian. I thought she was trying to say "vai" when she said that it meant "go" in Italian. You learn something new every day!

@@TomRNZ”dai” is literally an imperative meaning “you give”, but it can be used to mean “come on” or “hurry up”, I guess in the sense that you are “giving” something to the person speaking by getting a move on

*_"you're required to stop for them all."_* Same in Britain, except for the light colours. I think they have different sirens. {:o:O:}

In Canada you're *supposed* to stop for them all, but people often just don't notice police and ambulances because they're basically car-sized and everyone's subwoofers are drowning out the sirens. Which is why fire trucks automatically respond to all medical calls - between the much wider dispersal of fire stations and the fact the everyone notices the giant-ass red truck with the massive air horn on it, fire can often get to an injury first.

In old movies, they just stop, and my mother says she remembers when stopping was the rule.,

@@AHBeltJust stopping would never work in much of California. Then you just form a wall.

Too true - rather a Klaxon than a Clarkson any day

And they never said what it was in the end. What K word makes a sound like that other than a klaxon?

@@BenjaminGoose a ksiren 🤣🤣 The k is silent *and* invisible

Now he won't be able to take home that lovely dinette set.

A kar horn

Not a megaphone but a kilophone siren🤪

It will do that....

Klaxon

@@melodymuncy2809 Klaxon was the incorrect guess. He never said what the correct answer was.

We pull over & stop for sirens in the Missouri Bootheel.

Really? As someone from Massachusetts, known for bad drivers and on the east coast, people both pull over and almost completely stop. I figured he just omitted the part about pulling over.

Yeah,... get into the right lane, very gradually slowdown, sort of pretending to be getting ready to stop, wait for it,... ok, they've passed us, no reason to stop now. That was close.

And then immediately get behind the vehicle so you have a clear, fast path!

I've seen some individual drivers fail to pull over before, but most people always seem to. If you just stopped in the middle of the road, how would it pass you?

Think id give up driving

On SoCal freeways, during much of the day, pulling over isn't possible. Generally I try to give them a couple more inches as they pass on the shoulder.

It’s the classic “ahwooga” sound lol

What's the urban legend?

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@@benjaminlamothe2093 The idea that motorists were required to disassemble their engine if it spooked a horse may be an urban legend. There are sources dating back to 1968 that claim that such a law was passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly in 1896 unanimously and then vetoed by the governor. But it seems rather implausible that they would pass a law requiring people to do something that is obviously impossible. I haven't been able to find the name of the bill anywhere, nor its text (though Michael Munger offers a "summary" attributed to Karelovitz in 1968 which is often asserted to be from the actual bill). The red flags or lights and noisemakers were real laws though, at least in Vermont if not in Pennsylvania.

It was published as satire in 1919 in the Motor Age motoring magazine.

One reason may be that it's typically a much larger, heavier vehicle, so it has much more of a problem if people don't get out of the way quickly.

Isn't it all states ? The other one that isn't used much is SLOWER TRAFFIC TO THE RIGHT

They do.

The rule is to pull over, not to just stop. It creates a lane for the emergency vehicles in the middle of the road. You are required to get out of the way of emergency vehicles.

I have never heard JUST STOP ..I've driven in 44 of the 48 continental states ....thats not what we do ...pull over and stop

You don't just stop. You pull out of the travel lane to the side. If you have just been stopping in the middle of the road, you are doing it wrong.

Don't believe everything you hear on QI. It's good, but it's not perfect.

If you just stop dead on a narrow road, (or a road which is made narrower by parked cars) then you'd just block the road completely. You're supposed to use your own judgement and take the appropriate action to let the emergency vehicle past. In some cases, this can involve continuing to drive along the road until there's a place where you can pull over and let the emergency vehicle to get past.