Do you know why the word

Ambulance means an ambulance, often reversed into "ecnalubmA" on ambulance transport vehicles.

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The word Ambumlance is written in reverse because to drive the front to look at the rearview mirror to read down and avoid the road.

According to some professional emergency drivers, when transporting ambulance, this vehicle is given absolute priority, for reasons of fast travel to save a patient's life, the word "Ambulance" is the opposite of the purpose of hearing the horn. howling away from the pedestrian will look at his rearview mirror so that the word "Ambulance" can be easily read in a straightforward manner, from which easy to recognize an ambulance that gives way to the car.

Another theory is that, during the war, an ambulance was fitted with a Red Cross symbol, often used for ambulance work, to transport patients from the battlefield to the war site to ensure security when moving, avoiding being bombed from above, people have had such reverse letters rules so that enemy pilots cannot see.

It is said that the word "Ambulance" written on the ambulance is also idealistic. When emergency transportation is counting down the "live" time of that person, write back as a kind of fool / go backwards / reverse the idea of ​​. "Death".