2007-03-24 05:36:05 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
It isn't upside down, it's backwards, so you can read it in the rear view mirror while driving and get out of the way quickly.
2007-03-24 05:38:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
As some of the other answerers have pointed out, it's not written upside down. It's mirror image. Obviously it is so that when you see it in your rear view mirror you wont think it's an ECNALUBMA, which is French for 'Ice Cream Truck.'
Before they thought of doing that, an ambulance with it's whirring colorful lights and blaring sirens would come up behind vehicles frantically trying to get by to the scene of an accident. It was common for drivers to glance in their mirrors and say 'Aww, **** man! It's another one of those damn French Vanilla Trucks tail-gating me again. Hey! Check this out, buddy!" ...and the driver would proceed to flip the paramedic the bird.
Now that they write the word 'ambulance' backwards, there is no mistake about it when one sees it coming up behind them on the highway. However, when the vehicle is parked and viewed without a mirror, French children on hot days are often turned away by paramedics who are busy trying to save lives.
2007-03-24 05:53:17 · answer #2 · answered by Mickey Nation 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not written upside down, it's written backwards (mirror image). That's because for cars in front of it, when the driver looks into their rear-view mirror they see a mirror image of the word, and now it looks to them as if it was normal. It's to make people in front of the ambulance get out of the way faster.
2007-03-24 05:40:08 · answer #3 · answered by charmedchiclet 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AMBULANCE(Spelled on the front hood of a EMS Vehicle) is backwards so the people not smart enough to just hear th sirens can look in their rearview and see that it is an ambulance and pull over to the right and let it pass thru.
OR someone was drunk when they were spelling ambulance(Just Kidding) Lol.
Hope this helps.
2007-03-24 05:47:35 · answer #4 · answered by BRon719 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You mean backwards, and that is so drivers in front of the ambulance can read the word AMBULANCE in their rear view mirrors and give way.
2007-03-24 05:39:04 · answer #5 · answered by lanibear55 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Generally it is not written upside down, it will be written backwards so one can read it in the rear view mirror of your car.
2007-03-24 05:39:34 · answer #6 · answered by fwc 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is written upsidedown so that on hte rear view mirrors u can c the name normal
2007-03-24 05:40:42 · answer #7 · answered by Astrid J 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You mean backwards? I believe it is so People who are driving in front of them will look in their rearview mirror and see the word Ambulance on it. That way they know to get the hell out of the way!!!!!!!!!!
2007-03-24 05:40:55 · answer #8 · answered by southg11 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not upside down, it's a mirror image.
And it is so that people can read it when they see the vehicle approaching in their rear view mirrors.
2007-03-24 05:39:37 · answer #9 · answered by Vegan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't written upside down, it's written back to front so that you can read it in your rear view mirror...
2007-03-24 05:39:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋