'Bad luck on the road' was no problem at all in the 1950s, especially in the early 1960s. Even on the German Autobahn. As a motorist you parked your cart on the emergency lane (...), put the warning triangle a few meters in front of it and started! The traffic, such as the truck-with-trailer pictured, was driving around it. That were the days…!
Photo: And there you had bad luck with your Volkswagen. You parked it by the side of the road and started working with it. The traffic drove around it ... Those were the days!
Haha, yes, that is how you could take it indeed
Placing a warning triangle a few meters behind it seems a lot safer to me ...