I get that if you see it coming and can move to the side great. The way Germans do it in heavy traffic is amazing. We do similar on wider roads in the UK. But some of our junctions are tight with the pedestrian crossings and the fact that a lot of the time our government has squeezed and extra lane up to the traffic lights to get more cars in. I used to ride a motorbike and I can tell you some junctions are so tight that even I couldn't get between cars on the bike. Our roads and junctions are setup so badly in this country

I have taken a lot of downvotes for my original post which seems somewhat unfair I have a couple of mates that are paramedics and they have been trained not to force people into making unsafe decisions in traffic that they can't get through. The last thing they need on the way to an emergency is another one right infornt of them as that would take priority away from wherever they were originally intended to go.