Why do some emergency vehicles have the word AMBULANCE written in reversed on the front?

sellandtrade

The reason it is written in reverse in the front so you can read it in your rear view mirror when the emergency vehicle is behind you.

PeppermintandPopcorn

Common sense can dictate the correct answer.

TitoBob

If they come up behind your car, the word appears correctly in your rearview mirror.

Wolfsburgh

aiz,

So that when they are behind you and you see it in your rearview mirror, the image is correct and you can see that it is an ambulance...if they have their lights and siren going, you can make plans to yield the lane to it.

DNiedenthal

So you can read it in your rear view mirror

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Itâ€™s called mirror image printing so that when a person looks in their rearview mirror, they can read the word â€˜ambulanceâ€™ and itâ€™s not backwards.

Barry auh2o

It will appear normal in your rear view mirror,

phxcityaz

so people driving in front of an ambulance can read it in their rear view mirror

Renoirs_Dream

So when you look in the rear view mirror it reads correctly

Will M

Well being a retired Chicago Fire Medic, I can explain like this,. If you are driving in front of me, and you look through your rear view mirror, you will see my HOOD and read it correctly. You will see the word AMBULANCE the right way.. This is the purpose of that what looks to be weird. Try it some time. If you have a small mirror, stand in front of an ambulance put the mirror in front of you
and look. You will see it correctly.

So it'll read the right way when you see it in your rearview mirror--some people can't read backwards.

D.L.

so when you look out your rear view mirror you can see what it says...

oklatom

Otherwise you'd read ECNALUBMA in your mirror.

liciouz' dhana

so that when they are in a hurry, the people will know that they are the ambulance...

thebizarone

So that when someone is looking in their rear view mirror they can read that the vehicle behind them is an ambulance. Otherwise, if it wasn't it would be backwards in the mirror, and harder to read.

MiaDiva28

if it werent reverse you couldnt read it properly through the rear view mirror.words are in reverse order when you look through a mirror think about it. so it has to be written in that order for you to read it right.

siobahn_85

because in the rear view mirror, the driver reads AMBULANCE not ECNALUBMA

Kevin

So that they can be read correctly from your rear view mirror.

Personally, I think it's pointless, as I think the shape, color, and the flashing lights usually give it away before you have a chance to read it. Maybe that's just me, though.

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