I get imense stress from having an ambulance behind me even if there’s plenty of room to pass on the side. Immediately plotting where to go if it needs to go exactly where I am.
I can’t imagine having an ambulance behind you and going ‘Meh, I’m driving here.’
This is my head Canon with just about all dystopian fiction. Just take Hunger games. The US put up a wall against everyone else and began doing the Hunger games while the rest of the world goes ‘eh… just let them figure it out, don’t disturbed them’