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> ... please answer the question of whether the rule is violated (not whether the violation should be allowed).

For me this clearly means police cars and ambulances violate the rule. Maybe violating the rule is ok, but that doesn't mean they don't violate it.

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> For me this clearly means police cars and ambulances violate the rule.

From a purely logical viewpoint (think; mathematics or programming, et cetera), that's absolutely true. In programming you'd have to do a properly coded `if/else if/else/finally` type situation or somesuch to allow the ambulance and/or police, otherwise the rule is violated by any vehicle that's not been explicitly allowed.

This was also my line of thinking on those questions. "Rule was broken, but no penalty should be enforced."

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