There are uses for many not a standard ambulance emergency vehicles. There are boats, bikes, motorbikes, helicopters, people on foot and many more. These exist because they are able to get places an ambulance can't or are much faster and/or cheaper than a full ambulance and better than nothing. Still these are all supplementary to ambulances, as car supremacy is just that unbeatable.
Not sure about over there, but here we have a class of ambo's call MICA's (Mobile Intensive Care Ambulances) who are Solo/Duo in smaller SUV's(so they can jump kerbs and gutters if they need to) the purpose being they are the rapid on-site senior Ambo to stabilise and triage while the full size Ambulance is on it's way, which usually has capable but not as highly skilled Ambo's in it for transport care, or call for the Airwing if they need it, which from personal experience when an emergency is happening to a loved one it's a godsend when you see a MICA unit scream to a halt out front(ambo was a great guy and pulled some strings to get my relative in to a more suitable hospital than the closest, bastard wouldn't let me make him a coffee tho xD ).
There is a really weird “cliff” when transitioning from volunteer to staffed fire department as a city grows - a single fireman costs somewhere between one fire truck every four years to one firetruck a year (depending on pay, benefits, and size of the fire truck). This means that a volunteer station often has better and newer equipment because all of the money goes to it (and fundraisers for new fire trucks go over quite well, too). But as they transition to fully staffed most money goes to salaries and trucks get put to the side.
Does this idiot not understand that it's better to have and not need rather than need and not have? Sure, that overspecced pump might not be necessary 90% of the time, but there's 10% of the time when it is necessary, and now you're sat there with your limp hose in your hand while you watch people burn to death.
You ever seen a memorial emergency vehicle? In small towns you sometimes have a community fundraiser for a vehicle that would have saved someone, donated in their honor. Shit can hit you hard.
Here's what Jason did, and what he does in most if not all of his videos: he reached a conclusion first, then did "research" aka finding things that support his pre-determined conclusion, ignoring everything that didn't. Then he made the video.
It entirely depends on the area, the event, and the available machines.
I'll never understand sperging about metric vs. imperial units. For everyday use, it really doesn't matter. I'll chalk this one up to 'America Bad'.
And you can check the exact conversion in seconds. It really doesn't take long to google "X mph kmh"
I could say the same thing about metric units. 1 liter, 1 meter etc. It boils down to what we're used to using- because it will, obviously, be more intuitive
I like the metric system for cooking where precise measuremens and conversations are common, but not much else due to bias. Also going 100 kilometers an hour isn't as impressive as going 100 miles an hour. However, the one thing that Americans are objectively correct in using is Fahrenheit, it is perfect.
Get the fuck out of here Kelvinigger this is a Rankine neighborhood.
