American Reacts to High Speed Ambulance Response in Poland!

[@smiechuwarte-qt8pn]

In the EU, yellow lines on the road are drawn when the road is being repaired/reconstructed. White reflective markings on the road are obligatory on a daily basis

[@arthur_p_dent]

not really an EU rule. Some countries have it that way, other's don't.

[@smiechuwarte-qt8pn]

@@arthur_p_dent That's how it was in the countries I've been to. In the UK it is a bit different because there yellow double lines are the standard for marking places with a parking ban

[@mastroitek]

Color might change, for example in switzerland they are red, but it is a great way to draw attention "Fun fact": In switzerland crosswalks are bright yellow, just as the arrows in the video

[@playcryptx2238]

yellow lines in portugal mean, no parking or stoping allow

[@SvenAlbertPedersen]

Kind of, yeah... The yellow markings are temporary, if the current leading of traffic is opposing the normal (in this case) white lines. If there are yellow lines present, you have to follow them instead of the white ones. It can be seen pretty good in the first minute of driving.

[@uhjeen]

so funny how afraid americans are about manual gearboxes

[@IWrocker]

I know! I love them (manual transmissions) but still laugh at my fellow Americans at how most can’t drive one or don’t even wanna learn one

[@Brisbane2024]

If you drive manual transmission in every day usage it gets intuitive. You don’t need to think about gear change and clutch usage. Crazy that Americans do have so much doubts to use manual transmission. I prefer it because it is saving fuel a lot. Beside, that’s a Fiat Ducato with Diesel Engine.

[@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188]

I remember reading about a robbery of a Cash carrying truck, which the robbers had to give up, as no one knew how to drive with a manual gearbox!!

[@annaplojharova1400]

The yellow lines/arrows mean that it is a temporary signage, when it has to be different for some constructions or so.

[@AE971]

I never think about that I'm actually shifting since I always had MT cars. My problem was to drive automatic as I accidentally stepped on the brake with my european left foot that is used to hit the clutch 😂

[@andreasspringer1]

Chłop jest w szoku że w zwykłym busie jest manual 😂 tym czasem w PL wszyscy w szoku jak jest automat

[@u-permcubing4689]

Według mnie bardzo fajnie jest ze mamy dużo manualnych samochodów. Wymagają trochę więcej skupienia

[@adamzawadzki7190]

Nie w zwykłym busie tylko w karetce gdzie kierowca musi obsługiwać modulator i skupić się na otoczeniu itp. W końcu nie wiezie kartofli z giełdy.

[@wojtekrzepecki4892]

Więcej skupienia haha..

[@-kalox3798]

@@u-permcubing4689 pewnie ze o wiele lepiej w razie co nie masz nogi na hamulcu zeby odrazu hamowac, tylko na sprzęgle co tylko wydłuża reakcje.

[@helenbutte4246]

​@@u-permcubing4689haha skupienia na czym? Na zmianie biegów? Oba auta mam w automacie i nigdy więcej manuala. Mamy auta, które jeżdżą same a dalej zmieniany biegi...

[@Zephyrus88PL]

It's in Warsaw. Yellow lines are placed on the roadway during roadworks to create new lanes to avoid the construction site and keep traffic relatively flowing. And yes, those signs were for roadworks.

[@TH3L3G3ND]

nice info to know tnx

[@IWrocker]

Interesting. Thank You for sharing 😎👍

[@ileana8360]

Could you tell, if it is possible that this was filmed on a sunday. I can´t imagine the roads being empty like this every day.

[@TomekSmykowski]

​@@ileana8360It must have been a Sunday during summer vacations. That street where it starts, is almost never so empty during daytime.

[@ileana8360]

@@TomekSmykowski Knew it! 😉 Thanks for the info.

[@NickBosshard]

My dad had a heart attack last year and they turned a 27 minute drive into a 17 minute sprint. Impressive what those guys can do and happy to celebrate my dads "2nd Birthday" in a few weeks.

[@KowalDWR]

Glad he's ok.

[@agatastaniak7459]

Yes, respect to drivers like this one. And I'm very happy for your dad and you and things have worked out well in the end.

[@matsv201]

Driving manual is second nature after a while. It does have advantages to a automatic, like you can prepare the engine to accelerate.

[@Chaos-np8xf]

As someone who had cars with both, modern automatics work better. Even in those extreme conditions

[@IWrocker]

I agree with that 👍

[@matsv201]

@@Chaos-np8xf that is true.. sort of. We have one modern and one classic.

[@matsv201]

@@IWrocker we use to have 3 ton motorhome when i was a teen. It only had 90hp, so you really needed to rev up the engine to get away clean from a stop.

[@mateuszm6394]

@@Chaos-np8xf That may be but the manuals are way cheaper to repair when something goes wrong. And cheaper to buy in the first place.

[@aleksander766]

In Poland, there are approx. 80% of passenger cars and delivery vans with a manual gearbox. The share of automatic transmissions has been growing in recent years. Ambulances are built on the basis of delivery vans.

[@radoslawkurczab8265]

i think 95% of vans in Poland are manual or even more. Automatic van is really hard to find

[@monsteryuu9444]

@@radoslawkurczab8265 That might be true, i think 80% is for all cars (like any that you can drive with B license including vans) so I guess there can be less percentage of automatic vans and more of passenger cars than that. Cars and vans are often generalized as one so stats can be mix of both sometimes.

[@arthur_p_dent]

2:35 when the audio is cut out, it's typically for reasons of privacy.

[@IWrocker]

Makes sense, thanks 👍

[@nobodynemoq]

This was quite an easy ride through mostly empty streets. Please check one titled "W Kodzie Pierwszym - Odc 37 Akcja Serce", you'll see how they cope with busy streets and traffic jams - really impressing! This one delivers a heart for transplant, with help of police car assist. And manual gearbox is actually quite comfy here - sometimes you have to change speed really dynamically. Also, in Poland absolutely everyone who drives, knows how to use manual gear and it is something you really don't think about 😅 Have a nice day! 😊

[@TomikoPL]

Yes, I've just checked that out- dobre!

[@blazeykk]

Not everyone! A know people who made drivers licence for automatic transmission and can't drive manual.

[@SlawcioD]

@@blazeykk in PL?

[@1156w]

@@SlawcioD yeah, there is option to get licence in Poland only for automatic gearbox cars, saw few times that licence. for me very uncommon

[@kacmi6056]

In Poland have driver license for manual transmission who can drive automatic gearbox and for automatic transmission who can't drive manual gearbox

[@mammuntekpr]

In terms of this hospital tunnel, this is called lock gate and this is required by the legal act. All ERs in Poland must have lock gate for the ambulaces, next thing entering ER is "entry lock gate" , triage zone, decontamination area and yellow, green and red zone for different health condition patients

[@lost4468yt]

Why? This sounds unnecessarily risky?

[@davidcerny9716]

It's really funny to imagine a V6 gas van in Europe like you mentioned. Most vans, like 99 % are 4 cyl diesels and most of them are manuals. Those are work vans and they are ment to be cheap, to buy and to run. Automatic transmission is like 2 grand extra when buying and then it's also more expensive when something breaks, so almost no company is willing to do that.

[@reinhard8053]

Automatic transmission for a Ducato is more like 6 grand extra when buying ! And often you need to choose a stronger machine for automatic.

[@Dukenukem]

if you drive manual all the time you really does not pay any attention to manual shifting, your body just does it on its own, you just listen to the engine and feel it. Also if you have high torque diesel engine (as you do have in the van/ambulance) you have much more slack when it comes to precision shifting, so no stress at all.

[@TomikoPL]

Finally you've reached Poland. Those yellow-painted lines and signs are temporary, when there are some construction/rebuild works and the traffic organisation is changed. It looks like it was Sunday or something because there were not too many cars in the streets. Greetings from PL!

[@KUBUTECH911]

Hi IWrocker :D First of all, the video was shot by Wally, who is famous in our country due to the Paramedics POV materials. The action took place in the Polish capital city - Warsaw and just at the begining you can see the PESA Jazz DUO tram which is one of a bi-directional trams use in Warsaw. As you said at 2:48 - that was indeed ambulance which bases on Fiat, beeing more precise, on a Ducato platform. In USA it is known as a RAM ProMaster, but Fiat is equipped with 2.3 L, inline 4 cylinders, diesel engine which produces 130 HP in oppsoite to ProMaster with 3.6 V6 Pentastar petrol or 3.0 JTD, inline 4 cylinders, diesel engines :D You talked about yellow markings and rather strange signs in the middle of the road. The yellow lines are part of the temporary markings used to redirect traffic during construction works on the road. Road blocking signs are barriers, painted in white and red stripes, used to close the road, which will be repaired :D Fun fact. As you can hear, the driver uses the horn at key moments to change the modulation of the ambulance siren. When approaching intersections, the driver increases the frequency of the sound so that it reaches the car drivers better. Currently, siren systems are being modified, and ambulances are also equipped with the so-called rumbler that produces a low-pitched sound that is more penetrating than high-pitched sounds.

[@Wallyambulans]

😁

[@svennetherlands]

I used to be a police officer and we always drove manual transmissions. The advantage is that you are more stable in the corners because you can better control the speed of the engine. An automatic gearbox sometimes shifts when you don't want it to and that causes movement in the car, which is passed on to the suspension and that in turn affects the handling. Although modern automatic gearboxes are much more stable these days. You also see more and more automatic gearboxes in Europe. Especially in hybrids that also have to switch automatically between fuel and electricity.

[@robertab929]

What do you think about CVT transmission (continuously variable transmission)?

[@svennetherlands]

@@robertab929 A CVT gives no issues in the control of the car, but it takes some getting used to, because the rpm does not always seem to correspond to the speed. So it's a bit unnatural, but better than a regular automatic transmission.

[@kostka_bruhowa7848]

@@svennetherlands lemme point out though it's unnatural for someone who learned on manual / automatic. Probably sounds obvious but still

[@svennetherlands]

@@kostka_bruhowa7848 agree.

[@Bosko243]

Well.. i am a police officer too, and i drove a lot of manuals too, but after some time, our department bought and switched to a cars with DSG transmissions... and well.. for me the biggest advantage of manual transmissions were the fact, that you can brake with the engine a lot... We are firstline responders, our cars have rifles and SMGs, ballistic shield, a lot of things for traffic enforcement and accidents, medical bags and a lot of other stuff, so its some kilos and sometimes you have to drive very fast and dynamic... When i drove our old patrol cars with manual transmission to a 25 km distance accident, and well, i was going really fast and often used brakes, still when i get to the accident, the engine was very hot, but brakes were ok... Now? DSG transmission is stupid, and cant normally brake the engine, you can totally feel, that the brake strength of engine is slow, even if you use a sequentional shifting and you donwshift like mad... I drove one our DSG octavia to the shooting, so i was going really fast, i drove even 200 km/h+ and the result? After i used brakes for the 5th time, the brakes stopped to brake properly... well.. after i came to the accident, the brake discs were almost orange... :-D Plus.... yea.. Reliability... Our old manual transmission cars could make 300 thousand kilometers, and after that, used as a spare cars, there were a lot of them, which made almost 500 thousand kilometers... Some of our cars could serve for 16 years.. now? after 7 years all new cars with automatic transmission are being phased out, often they had 3rd gearbox, because two of them died before... but well... 300 thousand kilometers is their maximum, and well... around 100 thousand kilometers there are a lot of problems with the cars... like cooling of the gearboxes, gearboxes falling in to a safe mode and not shifting properly...

[@barsorrro]

The ambulance would be a Fiat Ducato. Most ambulances in continental Europe (or at least in Poland) are built upon fairly regular van delivery trucks. We're gradually moving towards those bigger, specialized box-like superstructures mounted on top of a frame-truck, but these are still rather rare, and as far as Poland is concerned, practically non-existent. So, normally, it would be a delivery van in a raised-roof version, obviously, with the cargo space thoroughly reworked on the inside. And they would be powered very much like the regular delivery vans they're based on -- i.e. with a modern 2.1 -- 2.5 turbodiesel engine, which would deliver somewhere around 100 -- 140 bhp. Yes, the gearboxes on those would normally be manual. Europe is quickly moving towards automatic transmissions nowadays; however, manuals are still definitely more common, and in a delivery van, an automatic would be very uncommon. But I don't think it's a big deal -- to somebody well-practiced in driving a manual, shifting gears doesn't steal any significant amount of focus. On the contrary, having the full control of the gearing makes it easier to use the full potential of the car and makes driving more predictable: if you want to use a tight gap for an overtaking, you shift down before you start the manouvre, and this way you know what power will be available to you when you put your foot down; in an automatic you have to count in the delay necessary for the kick-down system to understand your need.

[@matyaskalab3176]

Well, to be sure, many companies make manual vans in Europe, I cant remember, when I last saw automatic van. Of course, automatics start to be more popular, but those are for maybe last 10 years, until that, all vans were mostly manual. We are also more used to use manuals so we dont see those as hard as you over the pond.

[@MrNoone-dg2xn]

Yep, your typical workhorse would be a manual transmission with a 4 (sometimes 6) cylinder diesel engine

[@NekromDj]

This was Warsaw, Mokotów district - based on the number of cars it was probably a Sunday in Spring. The hospital is the MSWiA hospital (Hospital of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration) The yellow-red Trams and Buses are the official color of public transportation in Warsaw, Poland. The ambulance was porbably the Fiat Ducato - 2.3L 6 Speed Manual (Diesel) - Fiat has a huge market in Poland within the utility and also small cars segments. The Yellow Horizontal markings on the streets are used when construction and detours are in place as overlay on top of the regular white markings. They are so vibrant and visible because they seemed very fresh. The road blocks were there because they were about to replace/refresh the asphalt layer on that street as it was converging towards potential potholes (you could see some segments of the road had a bit of a dip already in a few places). This district is especially empty on the weekend as it has wide roads to accomodate one of the largest business/office areas in Warsaw - obviously less occupied during the weekend. Moreover Varsovians tend to massively go on weekend trips out of city during spring /summer season to lakes / forests / mountains - so this district is really empty on a sunday.

[@tmdosu]

3:30 I personally think that you can control your vehicle better with manual rather than automatic. With a manual you can precisely control the gear you are in for optimal acceleration, especially important in a van ambulance.

[@SordoBjorn]

also for engine braking

[@Jose_Rodrigues]

Exactly! In the same way that a rally car will never be 100% automatic (manual or sequential). A rally driver always needs to choose the right gear he wants for maximum performance and an ambulance driver always needs to be quick to reach the destination. For an ambulance manual it's the right choice to explore engine performance and better engine breaking, because the driver doesn't have time to wait for the automatic gearbox decide and choose the right gear. I think another problem is finding vans with good automatic gearboxes, because I think in Europe the best automatic gearboxes are mounted on cars and not so much on vans, but I could be wrong. Furthermore, an automatic gearbox is always more expensive to maintain and repair than a manual gearbox. This last issue is very important and sensitive for an ambulance as well as for any van that is used a lot for work. It's very simple: since automatic gearboxes in Europe are more expensive to buy, maintain and repair, for a work vehicle that easily covers, for example, several hundred thousand kilometers or even 1 million kilometers in a few years it becomes much more expensive for a company to maintain a fleet of vans with an automatic transmission. In the case of ambulances, it's even worse because they take a hell of a beating in a short time.

[@SordoBjorn]

@@Jose_Rodrigues Iveco has a pretty good 8 gear automatic on the Daily

[@Liggliluff]

That's why having an automatic with gear-control would be the most optimal. The car can do the fastest changing of gear automatically (since computers are the best of objective tasks like changing a gear), while the human determines what gera to have (since humans are the best of sujective tasks like what gear to use in the situation)

[@MrSaemichlaus]

Best would be a double clutch gearbox with shift paddles for overriding the automatic brain.

[@davis2671]

That was pretty fast response! :) Thx for sharing, greetings from the Czech Republic :)

[@darko11221]

O kurwa tego się nie spodziewałem a śledzę ten kanał od dłuższego czasu.

[@PrzemekM25]

Hej, ja też. Ostatnio polecałem mu, żeby zagłębił się w Żużel/Spedway

[@swirkens]

No, beka ja też sięnie spodziewałem XD

[@beateheinze6569]

I have been driving manuel for 33 years and its just so natural. You wouldn't think its difficult .I love it.

[@FoXcodeZ]

1:30 Yes. Both those signs are from road construction. Greetings from Poland.

[@urbexbyfilip1987]

this sign in the middle of the road from the beginning of the film is in the middle because it informs about the closure of a given section of the road and its exclusion from traffic for the duration of construction works

[@module79l28]

5:21 - You're right, the Fiat Ducato traditionally comes with a 2.3L I4 turbo diesel engine, so I have no reason to doubt that it's also the case here.

[@PhotogNT]

When I started as a Paramedic in Australia about 1980 we still had manual transmissions in some ambulances although automatic transmissions predominated.

[@jkar4727]

Hi from Poland! : ) I'll add that the way law is written here it is specified, that the time between receiving a call to the moment when ambulance arrives should not be higher than 8 minutes in a city with a population above 10 000. Outside of such city it should not be above 15 minutes. Admittedly, road construction and traffic can make it hard, but those are the goals.

[@nigelmchugh5541]

Fiat Ducato based ambulance. Will be a turbo intercooled diesel, probably 2.3 litres. Probably 95% of production will have manual gearboxes. 121 kph is about 75 to 80 mph.

[@christopherdegonia3936]

I live in Poland moved from California where, I was lucky to have learned on a stick. All I have ever seen is manual transmissions. It is second nature driving a manual. Another thing is that all ambulances have a doctor in them. Many people actually call them instead of going to the hospital because they get faster service then sitting in a waiting room for hours.

[@asegPL]

This isn't true that all ambulances in Poland have a doctor.

[@SIWY2]

In Poland, we have different types of ambulances, there is the P-type, which means "basic" (pl. podstawowa) and its staffed by two paramedics, and then there is the S-type, which means "specialized" (pl. specjalistyczna) and is something like the ALS ambulance in the US, but its staffing is completely different, instead of just a paramedic or two inside there is a doctor and two paramedics.

[@haineko1989]

@@SIWY2 also T (transport) which can have as little as 1 paramedic. We used to have also designation for W (wypadkowa = accidents) and R (resuscytacja = resuscitation) that are currently operating by the common symbol of S, but can be seen on videos from a few years+ back. There is also N (neonatological), which is also always staffed by a doctor, but has an incubator instead of a full-size bed/stretcher.

[@agatastaniak7459]

Very true. In Poland and in most European countries people are shocked by very concept of automated transmissions. ;-) Not to mention inside the ambulance. The very suggestion of it would make some ambulance patients to really fear fro their lives.

[@JanKowalskiOfficial]

1:50 yellow line is the temporary line, as you said - road constructions or something

[@urmothwr]

This is in Warsaw, the tram colours are a pretty easy giveaway if you've been there. Everything's a manual here. We all learn to drive manuals, so it would be easier for them than an automatic probably. The yellow lines are temporary for repairs or reorganization. The sign being weird is because he's going on the wrong side of the road and the sign was backwards from his PoV - it was closed for some sort of roadwork so he didn't have to worry about a head-on. Generally, though, if they're getting to an emergency they can ignore traffic laws. During my entire life in Poland I've seen maybe 10-20 pickups. It's mostly services like the police or border guard that use them, civilians rarely do because we don't need them. The ambulance is a fiat ducato III most likely - 4 cylinder gas engine. From what i can see it ranges between 100 and 170HP depending on the time it was made and the model of the engine.

[@RROOBBWWAANN]

1:45 The yellow horizontal markings are temporary. For the time of renovation or temporary change of traffic organization.

[@ChuckFickens1972]

I mean no disrespect with this comment.... But a lot of Americans have some weird notion that driving a manual transmission is some sort of uber skill... It's not... ya'all seem to think dealing with a clutch and a gear lever requires concentration... it doesn't.... It simply doesn't require any more concentration than putting one foot in front of the other when you walk... It's natural, built up muscle memory because a lot of us have only ever known that's how you drive. As I said, no disrespect and not being a US vs EU idiot, it's just a different way people get taught from day one.

[@IWrocker]

No offense taken, you’re correct. Over here in the US, people either look down on manuals or don’t even know how to drive them. Only true driving enthusiasts like myself like them and see their benefits. I find I’m a safer driver in my manual cars. Admittedly it does become second nature and quite easy when you daily drive a manual (I do, so it’s very easy for me) but I guess that’s my inner American coming out when I still think of them as a major Skill when driving probably because so many people Can’t drive one around me haha 😂

@@IWrocker In my daily life I switch between Volvo automatic with a joystick and 4 manual shift patterns: 4 speed double-H with leftmost R and a crawl gear, old-school double-H 5 speed (R back right), asymmetric 5 speed (R front left) and a 6 speed (R front left). My life is always fun! 😀

[@PaweKabanski]

Moreover, driving a manual transmission car is mandatory in driver's license course and state exam - so everyone driving a car has to know how to use manual. Automatic is convenient in city traffic, but if I want to get somewhere fast I pop DCT into manual mode. More control over the vehicle this way.

[@asegPL]

@PaweKabanski it is not mandatory. You can pass automatic transmission only exam.

[@PaweKabanski]

@@asegPL wow, a lot nas changed. Sorry for the confusion then

[@diego.frighi8483]

i am an EMT in italy and here maybe 90% of all ambulances are based on the fiat ducato chassy, and manuals. (but sometimes you can find some volkswagen, man, or ford ambulances, some with automatic transmissions too)

[@vedranpevec4483]

My friend drives ambulance, at his workplace they have bet who will drive faster infront speed camera when going onto intervention. Mostly during the night shifts.

[@matsv201]

They probobly get beaten by a jet pack driver.. those people have no respekt for speed cameras

[@viper31stvfw86]

2:00 these "yellow-lines" are construction lines, so if some kind of construction is going on on the road, they put these yellow lines on top to guide the traffic into the ride direction, for example, if the right lane is closed for construction, they put these yellow lines severel hundred metres in front of the closed lane and merge two lanes into one.

[@dariusznowak801]

About the machinery... It is a Fiat Ducato, they are available in a few engine options, on top of which is a Diesel four banger with 180HP and 6 speed manual. This van is probably the fastest one you can get (in this size at least) on a motorway you can easily get to 160-180kph (100-112mph) and stay there. Another advantage the Ducato has is that it has quite firm suspension (compared to other vans of similar size), it handles quite like a car actually. Greetings from Poland!

[@justynam47]

w stanach znają te auta pod nazwą Ram Promaster . Inne znaczki. Odkąd fiat przejął jeepa i doge , ram.

[@rafatex4157]

To była Warszawa, pozdrowienia z polski! 👍🇵🇱

[@bartoszwalega9818]

Puławska, Woronicza, Wołoska

[@neilburns8869]

I love the idea of the enclosed drop-off point, because during the winter months temperatures and conditions can get pretty severe so it just helps give that extra bit of protection against the elements and also helps to put off any rubber-neckers.

[@Aivri]

Very true. Also helps the personnel to transport the patient from the ambulance into the building faster and safer, since they don't need to worry about ice/water in the ground.

[@jacekkangaroo4402]

1. yellow signs on roads mean temporary traffic management 2. enclosed ambulance drop off is made to keep patients and hospital stuff comfortable in winter time 3. it is in Warsaw, capital city of Poland it is my neighborhood, I was speeding on those streets much more when I was a young driver, even had a traffic accident on one of those intersections 🙂

[@CherryGS]

Driving a manual is no harder than automatic, if you've learned/trained it properly. I hardly ever need to think about when and how to shift, it just gets into "muscle memory" and happens more or less autonomously, no matter if i'm in town, on country roads or autobahn. So while i find your fascination with a "manual ambulance" fascinating, from my european/german standpoint (where i know that lots of commercial vans had and still have manual transmissions) that gearstick is a totally normal sight.

[@stargabilondoechever]

Ambulance car is Fiat Ducato, its identical likeits brothers Peugeot Boxer, Citroen Jumper and... RAM ProMaster - all are brands of Stellantis Corporation and this models differ mainly in stickers. Its diesel, there are no gasoline vans in Europe. Ambulances in Poland are usually Ducato/Boxer/Jumper , Mercedes Sprinter and Volksvagens: Transporter and MAN TGE (its Volksvagen brand). They are mostly equipped with manual transmission - automatic transmission in vans are still pretty rare (due to price) in Europe

[@powerupminion]

Pro tip for using manuel gears: While you can use the RPM-meter to tell you when to shift gears, it's actually easier to just listen to the engine and when it's working a bit too hard.

[@Vhsbdg]

thank you for reaction :)

[@diecicatorce6259]

Almost all cars in Europe are manuals, everyone that knows how to drive knows how to drive manual, so it's not really a "difficulty" for someone that that drives for a living. Also, I would guess the ambulance is a Fiat Ducato, it's the most common ambulance model from Fiat

[@fulf]

And it is a Ram promaster in America. Probably has the 2,3 130 hp diesel engine.

[@automation7295]

@@fulf Except the RAM ProMaster has five amber/red identification lights and lacks a 3rd brake light.

[@themetalslayer2260]

manual transmissions are getting rare only since few years in europe, until 2010 there was more than 80% of vehicles in manual. I was ambulance driver and in most of european places ambulances are regular diesel vans (2.4 hdi manual 6 are really common) i remember driving from Angoulême to Bordeaux with a small ambulance for a transfer between 2 hospitals at 160 170 km/h and the crew at the hospital was surprised to see us already there (it took nearly 2 hours at legal speeds at that time but i spent less than 75 minutes to went from one hospital to the second one)

[@michajastrzebski4383]

This is in Warsaw, Mokotów district. They are going through Puławska street, to Woronicza, then later Woronicza to Wołoska to MSWiA (ministry of internal affairs) hospital (name has stuck from the old days of communist "govt/military only" iirc facility, nowadays its a standard public hospital, pretty much). I live like 800 meters from Woronicza/Wołoska crossing, funny seeing my apartment building in the distance :)

[@irishdancer7116]

In Poland yellow lanes are painted during lines are painted for repairs and rebuilds. Also most cars are manual. And pickup trucks are used by farmers, foresters, etc, in cities you wouldn't find many of those. As for city 07:30 it's Warsaw, it's in the description of the original video, you also show it at 00:30

[@davidpawlaw]

Hey, I love Wally and watch every single new video that comes out on that channel, just wanted to say that the video you chose pretty much had little to no traffic most of the time, so it didn't really let you see the way people react to the sirens a lot. Episode #12 for example is really good - pretty full of good and bad drivers. Episode #28 is also a good one - where Wally is driving a medical transport car instead, rushing with blood to an operational patient. It would be amazing to see you reacting to one of those too! If you think they're too long you could also just cut out the parts where there's no traffic or nothing's happening :)

[@gamelias87]

If you can drive a "stick shift" manual transmission, you can drive everything. I know is not so common in the States but it's a good skill to have.

[@tfruba]

Hi there! This "train" at the beginning was indeed a tram. In Poland 99% of ambulances have manual gearboxes. As same as police cars, fire trucks etc. In Poland, most of the drivers don't know how to drive an automatic gearbox (or are simply scared of them like my mother). Personally - I can't even imagine driving a manual... In Poland, automatic gearboxes are considered as easy-to-brake and expensive in maintenance. And the best: here, in Poland, your normal driving license exam is done on manual gearbox (category "B"). You can pass an exam on automatic, but it gives you a special license type (cat. "BA") and you have no permission to drive a manual in the future ;) The yellow lines and signs on the road means they're temporary due to some road works. Best regards!

[@wlodek7422]

Also, B category lets you use automatic too so there's no really point in getting BA license

[@tfruba]

@@wlodek7422 that's true. Honestly - it's quite logical. Driving a manual is a bit harder than automatic. So you can get BA cat. which is simplier to pass, but you can drive automatic-gearbox only, or you can have a "hard level" 😆 exam for a B cat. and drive whatever you want.

[@andrzej3511]

"This city" is the capital of Poland - Warsaw. The ambulance goes along the streets: Puławska, Woronicza, Kwitnąca, from where it takes the patient to the hospital. Route to the hospital: Kwitnąca, Woronicza, Wołoska. You can trace on Google maps. :))) Hospital MSWiA. Judging by the position of the sun, it is close to noon, and the very weak traffic suggests that it is a day off from work: Saturday, Sunday. Normally it wouldn't be so easy... I know the area very well, along Woronicza Street I go for walks with my dog at least once a day. The district is Mokotów.

[@mateuszm6394]

That is a Fiat Ducato with a 4cyl 2.3L or 2.8L JTD (diesel) engine.

[@stevekenilworth]

same van they have in usa but with gas engine in usa with an auto. must be mad gas engine and weight to shift the fuel bill must be outrageous expensive

[@anulkaaw]

The yellow lines mark the changes in how the traffic is organised for the times when there are road repairs going on etc. They do pop up but they are temporary and it's back to the white lines when the repairs are over.

[@kriketo]

I used to own a Fiat Ducato back in 2007 to 2010, mine was the standard version/size, with a 4 cilinder turbo diesel 2,3ltr, 120hp, mine was for cargo soo it didnt have the extra weight of all the medic equipment, and it was a pretty fast van with a top speed of 180+ km/h, but there was a superior version with 3.0 ltr and160hp, probably the ambulance uses this last one.

[@roweroraffi]

Probably it is NOT the 3.0 V6.

[@przemyslawtomkiewicz2914]

Ambulance and Fire Dept emergency vehicles have a lot of respect on Polish streets. My Dad was taken to this very hospital visible on this recording and probably quick EMS reaction saved his life (twice). As a driver I would do anything possible to allow ambulance quick way through the traffic to no to risk someone’s life.

[@FacelessJanus]

Ian, answer me this; Why would you assume that any European Ambulance, or Fire Truck, or Police Car (Yes I did add the latter two, as they belong to the Emergency Responders imho) be anything other than manual ???? It is a tram in the middle of the road. If in any European City it would be a train, the tracks would be behind some sort or shape of fences. (I mean at least 9ft high, often topped with barbed wire.) Yellow lines in Europe, mean the road is being worked on. They are temporary lines.

[@MikrySoft]

Train tracks in Poland are not behind 9ft fences, especially not with barbed wire. Some are fenced (since the terrain around the tracks is a private property), some are risen on embankments, some are lowered into channels or hidden in tunnels. But there are plenty of accessible tracks even in a city.

[@arandominternetperson4462]

I've never driven an automatic, and seeing you amazed about manuals amazes me :D.

[@danieljanuszewski]

Kocham manualną skrzynię biegów zwłaszcza z tylnym napędem!!!

[@mattycornwall3326]

I stare beemki z chińskimi ledami 😂

[@pawelX7698]

Interesting fact it was recorded in the middle of COVID as usually drivers had no hazmat elements while driving. It was different during COVID. Here it was probably summer 2022 as it is only mask there.

[@rykmat2542]

Here in Europe, we call all trains which operate on the streets trams. There is one exception, Northern Germans call them Straßenbahn. 🤪 But it's the German word for tram. Manual transmissions are pretty common here. All VANs of this size are diesel. According to the tram's colours and shape, I'm pretty sure, it's in the city of Warsaw the Polish capital.

[@patrick71994]

Fun fact: In North America, some people call them street cars, which is the same as Straßenbahn

[@ErZocktLP]

In BW we call them also Straßenbahn 😅

[@rykmat2542]

@@patrick71994 I'm Czech and my German is far from perfect. But I believe that the German word Bahn is not the exact equivalent of the English word car. But you remembered me I heard in one video from Chemnitz in which people were speaking about "Die neue Bahnen" so you probably are true. In the Czech language, we have the word dráha which is equivalent to the German word Bahn in words Eisenbahn, Sailbahn Shwebebahn etc. Si I forgot that Bahn can be car too. 🙃

[@rykmat2542]

@@ErZocktLP I'm sorry. As a Czech, I tend to generalise Bavaria and Austria as Southern Germany. I know that the word Sraßenbahn is common for all German speakers and one only in Hochdeutsch. In Munich, they call their Straßenbahn network Trambahn and in Vienna, you can see the word Tram often in German texts (and of course with the German capital T). I don't exactly know what happened so I can speculate only that it is because in Vienna horse trams started to operate in 1865 and at this time the word Straßenbahn did not exist, so they retrieved the English word tram and Munich got influenced from Vienna. And in other Austrian cities, they use the word Tram often too, so I guess is the same situation. Any Idea about this difference?

[@wrobelda]

@@rykmat2542 it's important to note, though, that 'car' in 'street car' does not mean 'automobile', but rather a train car, so in German that would translate to Straßenwagen, I suppose :)

[@tlx5095]

bro, this is standard here. all respect.

[@vcarvalho193]

Manual transmission gives you more control, specially in narrow up and down streets as in most of Europe's cities.

[@OnkelWilli]

Hey man, discovered your channel a couple of days ago and I’m really quite enjoying it. As a former paramedic and driver with about 7 years of experience in southern Austria and Vienna, here’s my take on this: First of all, yes, most ambulances I’ve driven were manual transmission. And while they have quite a few advantages over automatics, I always kinda preferred the automatics when it comes to urban environments and the driving associated with going on emergency calls in them. Having your right hand “free” to signal and use the horn/siren is super comfy. However, if you are growing up in Europe, most places will only teach you to drive on a manual, because it’s so much easier to switch to automatic if you’ve become sort of confident driving stick. That applies to driving an ambulance as well and while that does require a whole lot more in terms of proficiency, I don’t think the transmission plays into it as much as general car control, situational awareness, on the spot risk assessment, as well as road and procedural knowledge. About the actual driving being done in this video: Yes it’s good but there are quite a few moments with a high pucker factor in there. Anyways, if you you have any questions I’m always up for a chat. Cheers Tl;dr: Others have said it, driving a manual becomes second nature, so other factors are more challenging.

[@OnkelWilli]

For peak pucker factor: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpOZoGOgfduorpI

[@Hutchkins77]

all emergency vehicles are manual in the UK!

[@kurtkesters6043]

of course they are, they are driven by people who already know how to drive... 🙂

[@IWrocker]

That’s awesome 😎

[@nicozenduro9988]

As well as in Poland

[@alldi86]

Full sunny day 😂. I don’t know how it is in USA but in Poland in Summer we have summer 😂

[@Kamil_Radecki]

Wally to kocur jeśli chodzi o ratownictwo, bardzo szanuje gosćia

[@Wallyambulans]

🫡

[@One-Watermelon]

Here in Austria even alot of Firetrucks are still, manual, but most newer ones are automatic now, like nearly 100% of Semitrucks now

[@ZombieVisuals]

Welcome to europe at 3:05 You get it as a manual or it is not even really a car (at least that's the German way haha)

[@gluteusmaximus1657]

You may get a drvers license for automatic only. For the ones that cannot drive a real car ;-)

[@tomaszkempisty3722]

The yellow lines are temporary due to reorganized traffic. Usually used because of road construction. The signs in the middle of the road were there to close off parts of the road due to reorganized traffic)

[@xXxlllManHacklllxXx]

Hi from Belgium! Within the EU, most vehicles are manual (~90%), and I think this is primarily for economic reasons. Since an automatic transmission adds weight to the vehicle, requiring a "larger" engine, and considering that the price of gas is already higher than in the US, governments use the ecological pretext to impose "environmental" taxes based on engine power (which can be extremely high in some cases). This leaves little choice for the average budget. Another reason I see for this is that when you get a driver's license with an automatic transmission, you are not allowed to drive a manual transmission. However, by obtaining a manual license, you can drive vehicles with any type of transmission. A young driver with limited funds who is learning to drive will almost always choose to get a manual license because it provides access to a wider range of choices in the car market. Cheers.

[@CookingWithCows]

It's because in the US you first have to fill out your payment details and get a credit check to get an ambulance.

[@Hammer0165]

Driving manuals most of the time, it's such second nature that it truly wouldn't matter to me either way. Stressful situation or not. I think that's true for most Europeans. We're so used to driving manuals, the only time we really care is in stop and go traffic. Anything else, even emergencies, manuals are no complication what so ever.

[@Dany126PL]

My mom and of course me had to be transported fast by a ambulance 22 years ago when she began to give birth to me. I was a premature baby and ambulance had to transport us for a 50km to a different city because when my parents lived at the time they didn't had any incubators in a Hospital. I'm grateful to the driver and rest of ambulance crew and the doctors.

[@tizek2]

Yellow horizontal marks are called temporary or placeholders. They are used, for example, to mark changes in traffic organization due to road renovation. Drivers must recognize yellow signs if they indicate behavior other than white markings.

[@TobiasRieperGER]

Let me tell you something. Manual transmission goes into your muscle memory. You don't have to think about it while driving. RPM / engine become loud -> next gear. Braking for a corner -> lower gear. It makes a difference, having a manual as daily, or driving a manual for an hour on sunday for fun. My uncle had a tractor from the 60s. This thing had 20 gears on 1 stick. When i remember correctly, it was a Deutz.

[@SordoBjorn]

The ambulance is likely based on a Fiat Ducato, which has always been a joint-venture betzeen Fiat and PSA which means Citroen sells it as the Jumper and Peugeot Boxer. Since 2013 It is also sold in the USA under the name RAM Promaster. The engine was likely the 3.0 liter Diesel (built by IVECO) which has about 180hp and 400Nm torque (google just told me that is 295ft-lbs)

[@greycliffnative]

In Poland the yellow marks on the roads are just temporary because of the construction/renovation. Generally, in Europe the manual gearbox is a standard. Thanks for the film.

[@Mofi77]

This is Warsaw, must be some holiday morning, as there are no traffic jams. In Poland, the color yellow is used during road renovations when traffic organization is temporarily altered. They are not painted, but rather applied as stickers. The ambulance is a Fiat Ducato 2.3 diesel V4. Not only ambulances, but also 70% of the cars you see there have a manual transmission.

[@Sadlor82]

This Fiat is Your American RAM, but in US you have it with V6 from CHrysler in Poland we use mostly DIesel. Wasaw City and MSWIA Hospital. Greetings from a CIty Bus driver with proper AT ;)

[@5Dale65]

It's most probably a Fiat Ducato, and you can clearly hear a diesel in there, so it has to be the most reliable and indestructible fiat's Multijet 2.2l 4-cylinder turbodiesel. They produce from 120 to 180hp and plenty of torque even at low rpm. These are really powerful, the torque makes them pull really hard, and they are "elastic" so even if you choose like 3rd gear instead of 2nd the engine will still be able to accelerate sufficiently. The "elasticity" of an engine is something you don't even have to consider if you have an automatic, but in manuals it is very important. I think this is why europeans love the turbodiesel, it's so much easier to drive them with a stick. You just push the gas in and the car pulls forward, without changing gears. On the other side are small displacement naturally aspirated petrol engines, which are really shit to drive with a manual (or at all). If you cruise at like 2k rpm and want to accelerate quickly, you have to change gears everytime. So people use such vehicles only as small shopping cars that you can park almost everywhere. So the ambulance it a turbodiesel with a stick, which make them really easy and nice to drive. On the other hand, almost 100% of the city buses are automatics nowadays. And I really mean 100%.

[@bigsmoke383]

this is Fiat Ducato, and it have 2.0 litre inline 4 engine

[@PawełWolski-q7i]

At the time, the streetcar track was being replaced at this location, so there were signs in the middle of the road forbidding entry. And yellow lines indicate a change in traffic organization, and as you see white and yellow stripes on the road, the correct ones are yellow. In Poland as well as in Eastern Europe, a lot of cars have manual transmissions because it's cheaper that way. Even large fire trucks have a manual transmission, which additionally has high and low gears and in the US, such vans are found under the Dodge logo. Ram Promaster.

[@TheB3n0]

Welp, here in Europe manuals are not only more available, they are actually much more common than automatic. Pretty much all drivers here are really experienced with stick and I would even argue that switching to automatic transmission could actually do harm

[@RazudMezeghis]

All ambulances are manual transmission, as far as i know. Driving a manual is like riding a bike... its easy to do once one is costum to it and newer cars are very easy to drive with a lot of aids, like hill climb anti roll down controls, smooth shifters, shifthing lights telling do go up or down a gear, etc... All comercial vehicles, ambulances, firetrucks, garbage trucks, etc that are company/state owned... are all diesel, since they have tax benefits by using diesel vehicles... Yellow signs and lines are temporary signaling due to constructions/repairs and white stripes and signals are of permanent regular nature.

[@przemysawkwiatkowski2674]

1. The yellow lines are temporary. They are used in case of road works or whenever something unusual happens and traffic has to be rerouted. Normal street markings are in Europe white (including the central axis line!). Whenever you see both white and yellow markings - you must follow the yellow ones. They are usually made of some kind of easy removable tape. 2. Manual transmission is actually standard everywhwre outside North America. It's in cars, trucks, ambulances... everywhere. Regular drivers would be surprised if they come up against automatic transmission... It's really hard to find a driver who can't drive manual (except Americans....)

[@mateuszbaranski8609]

yellow lines are the temporary lines glued on the road during the reconstruction/repairs of the road

[@Dinozar-nb2jh]

Yellow lines are temporary, they are used only during construction so people driving can differentiate which ones should they follow

[@AE971]

I think Ambulances and fire cars are mainly automatic in Germany and the Netherlands, manual transmission seems to be standard in Poland. Btw.: A Fiat Ducato is some kind of "traditional polish" (as a german cliché) :D

[@vaqxai4281]

We don't see that many automatics in europe due to later adoption and the overall cost of maintenance on a manual transmission being lower. In Poland, specifically if you pass your driver's exam on an automatic car, you can't drive manuals, legally. You have to pass your license on a manual, and then you are allowed to drive both. It's more unusual to see someone driving automatic than manual, and all drivers are used to manuals, and as other commenters pointed out, driving manual becomes an instinct, and you don't have to focus on it as much or think about it. Still, I believe for emergency response, a modern automatic transmission would still be better, since even with good manual experience, an automatic still doesn't take away as much concentration as a manual does.

[@lumikarhu]

your reaction is funny for me, an european. most drive manual without thinking, it's not a skill to be proud of just because of how normal it is. Kinda like breathing. 99% of driver exams and preparations are on manual and absolute fresh drivers usually learn how to shift within the first 2-4hours. I own automatic cars because it's convenient for city traffic and for offroad driving (you can focus on other things and your clutch will thank you). Before I've driven a manual car for 6 years and it was ok but it's not that comfy in traffic jams at all. And when someone say they have less control over an automatic car they need to learn how to drive automatic - simple as that. Both transmission types DO need practice to be a good driver. It's a matter of personal preference but having driven both for many years I will never go back to manual

[@JPAGH]

1:25, 2:00 and 1:30 Road constructions. Big yellow arrows on the road are temporary signs rearranging traffic on road constructions purpose. All regular signs (lines, arrows, etc) painted on the street are white. If they are yellow, they are temporary.

[@BR618]

Yesterday I had the luck to be able to drive a (half-) manual geared train set type VT 98 Serie/BR 798 ... felt as weird to have to shift and use intermittent gas as driving an automatic car ^^ (TF= Triebfahrzeugführer = (train-) driver ... the disel-powered trains I drive all have a full-automatic gear set, my cars never had ^^)

[@dzik210]

Ambulanse is a Turbo Diesel unit with manual gearbox because of high reliability, cheap maintenance, and fuel costs in EU and especially in Poland.

[@antoniogramsci8217]

Manual comes natural, it`s like breathing, you don't think about it. Extremely handy winter time

[@soullessingularity460]

I've been watching Wally for a while now and I can say that.. It's worth checking him out! Especialy one of his longer videos or ones with two parts

[@alhanthalas]

Fun fact, in Poland to drive ambulance during communism driver had to have at least 1 class driver licence heavier than the ambulance they were suposed to drive. Nowadays many, many ambulance drivers needed to take extra exams, couse ambulances got much heavier, and for short time we had a lack of drivers (I`m talking Wrocław, PL). And as someone allready said, yellow lines are temporary ones. And driving manual is so natural in EU that we don`t even notice gear changes during driving.

[@1989ogor]

Yellow lines in PL are temporary. They are used for example during road construction. Signs in the middle of the road are probably to close come lines. This road looks like they are starting kind of construction/modification tomorrow.

[@Diveyl]

Ambulans emergency only drop point here. Hospital can have few entrances, one or two for ambulances like that (or one that can serve two ambulances at the same time), one strictly for self check-in patients, one for visitors, one for personel, entrance for contagious patients... although for those are isolated wards, in separate building at a close distance from main building, or a whole hospital dedicated to them.

[@les69op]

In Europe most cars have manual gearbox except city buses. This ambulance it's a Fiat Ducato - in USA manufactured under the brand name as Ram ProMaster.