Have you noticed that a growing number of ambulances – these days – have the word “ambulance” spelt backwards on the front of the vehicles?

That is, instead of the word “AMBULANCE”, it is spelt as ECNALUBMA.

Ever wondered the reason for that?



Well, the reason simple:

The word is written backwards on the front of the vehicles to enable motorists in front to easily read it on their rear-view mirrors, especially during emergencies.

That way, people looking in their rearview mirrors or side-mirrors can read it as AMBULANCE.

Ambulances are typically in greater speed than surrounding vehicles. This makes the ambulance front visible in the rear-view mirrors of other cars. That way, those cars that need to give way for the ambulance to drive through in traffic would do so.

This is necessary because, in traffic, ambulances are supposed to be given right of way and so apart from their sirens; the word ambulance is made easily readable from the mirror of vehicles in front of them.

International standards state that ambulances should have the world ambulance written in reverse on the bonnet.

In some countries, the words “police” and “paramedics” are spelt backwards for a similar reason.

In essence, “mirror writing” on vehicles are used to quickly catch the attention of other motorists.








Source:


https://autojosh.com/why-is-the-word-ambulance-spelt-backwards-on-emergency-vehicles/


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I have always wondered why too.

Nice one

Why is nairaland spelt backwards?

never knew this.....learnt something today.

I had known this before. Back then when travelling from owerri to Lagos, I saw okeyson behind our bus written as "nosyeko"

The letters s,y,e and k were all facing the other direction just like "3" for "E" the three straight horizontal lines in letter E will face the left side.

Practical

Write Ambulance backward, place it behind you.

Take a mirror and look at yourself and what you have written.

Observe the spellings have changed.


Letters that remain the same are: A,H,I,M,N,O,T,U,V,W,X,Y.
While the other remaining letters would change direction facing the left. e.g ( , )

In numbers, 8 remains the same,while other numbers changes facing the left. e.g

na today I just know am