Travellers may take wrong routes to avoid traffic signals or follow ambulances to bypass traffic jams. Additionally, in haste, some may follow funeral vehicles. 4 / 8 Many believe that following an ambulance or a funeral vehicle will help them travel faster. Nowadays, due to the distance of crematoriums in cities, bodies are transported in carts or even ambulances, which sometimes carry the deceased . ADVERTISEMENT7 / 8 Thus, it is considered inauspicious to follow ambulances and funeral vehicles.