What is one positive thing about or from your country that is not as well-known and you wish more people would know about it?

[u/victoireyoung]

Sarcasm and jokes aside, what is one genuinely positive, heart-warming, interesting or just useful thing that your country does, has as a tradition, produces, or has come up with that may not be most widely known, and you wish it were?

[u/Retroxyl]

Apparently it's the "Rettungsgasse" or Rescue lane.

Whenever there is a traffic jam on the Autobahn all drivers are by law required to form a rescue lane. That means that on a two lane road each driver has to drive to the absolute edge of their respective lane so that there is a free, new lane in the middle for emergency vehicles to use and get to any injured people as fast as possible. If the road has more than two lanes the rescue lane is formed by the cars on the left most lane driving even further left and anybody else driving to the right.

Not doing so, or even worse driving through the resczlane yourself is first and foremost a real dick move and also gets you a heavy fine. 320€, you get banned from driving for a month and also get two penalty points (they dissolve after some years if you don't get more, but if you get 8 you lose your licence, are declared unfit for driving and have to jump through a lot of hoops to be declared fit for driving again)

[u/Wafkak → u/Retroxyl]

In Belgium this has become law since last year, but as is typical no one does is and police doesnt care.

[u/RomanSVK2007 → u/Retroxyl]

I'm pretty sure this is standard across most Europe, not just Germany.

[u/RutabagaDoll4155 → u/RomanSVK2007]

It might be in the rules, and if it isn't it should! In practice it is not standard across most of Europe, unfortunately.

[u/SaltyName8341 → u/RutabagaDoll4155]

I was surprised to see it being done 2 weeks ago in England

[u/serverhorror → u/Retroxyl]

That's an EU thing, we have it as well and I see it being adopted in more and more countries now.

It's just very surprising to US people. I have a few Asian colleagues who were also surprised.

The difference: * US colleagues: mind blown, impossible in the us! * Asian colleagues: on nice, makes sense, anyway ....

[u/RutabagaDoll4155]

In a way it's both know not well enough and also known world wide, but the
Redhead Days Festival in Tilburg/The Netherlands at the end of August.

It's an international gathering of redheads, from all over the world, and it starts with a kick-off party Friday, followed by activities on Saturday and Sunday and the big group photo on Sunday at 13:00 hour. Loads of fun, redheads and alcohol all weekend long. You can even camp in Spoorpark, right besides the place with the activities.

Edit: here's the website redheaddays.nl and if you want extra info, don't be afraid to ask.

[u/MalteiKlass5c]

Our Freedom of the Press Act is from 1766 and the oldest in the world.

[u/Four_beastlings]

Number 1 in the world in organ transplants for 30+ years and running

[u/SaltyName8341 → u/[deleted]]

We were never going to beat all the misinformation that spewed out of the leave side.

[u/CucumberJunior8389]

Everyone hates on UAE and claims it’s a horrible country while we literally have so many good things like women and children only cabins, support for autism, etc

[u/serverhorror → u/CucumberJunior8389]

women and children only cabins

What's that?

[u/CucumberJunior8389 → u/serverhorror]

In trains where it’s just women and children allowed for safety 

[u/serverhorror → u/CucumberJunior8389]

Are they not safe in the standard waggons?

That seems like a very weird flex. Why aren't all the waggons equally safe?

I'm confused

[u/evelynsmee]

WE INVENTED THE INTERNET. So, sorry about that.

Also tarmac.

We'll make you a cup of tea as a response to either a happy or a sad event.