One can clearly see that it's NOT keeping the Rettungsgasse free. That's a fact. Whatever someone said somewhere sometime doesn't change what the video shows.
But that's just the thing. What you said and what was previously said are related.
The Audi is starts making way for Rettungsgasse as the traffic slows down. This was interpreted on TMC as the car becoming out of control and diving for the middle divider - I educated them otherwise at the time and was largely ignored. OK, Americans don't have the same Rettungsgasse.
Now, co-incidentally, at the same time the traffic queue on the rightmost lane encounters a gap on the side and to the rear of the car, which prompts the system to initiate manual handover to the human driver, as this is a rule for the system. (It is in its initial form meant for traffic-jams with queues on adjacent lanes. When queue is no longer there on the right side, the scenario ends.)
The video clearly shows the car moving towards the left side of its lane to form Rettungsgasse in anctipation of the the queue stopping - or alternatively the car needing to stop if the driver does not take control during the hand-over period...
But the car's movement is stopped by the driver taking control, who centers the car instead.
The Audi system was doings its thing all the time. There was no immediate takeover, there was no diving for the divider. There was an orderly process of making way for emergency vehicles co-inciding with an orderly hand-over process to the driver.
This has simply been, time and again now, been misunderstood and misrepresented here.
