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Seems easier to just design breakdown lanes on one of both sides. I've been in plenty of traffic where it wouldn't have mattered how polite and conscientious everyone was, there simply would not have been space for everyone to pull over like this. But everyone slowed and stopped in place, emergency services had no problem reaching the site via the shoulder/breakdown lane. Unless all of the lanes were blocked by the incident or a landing medical helicopter, traffic kept flowing past one side or the other of whatever was happening. Just because this kind of solution worked for Germany, doesn't mean it is appropriate everywhere. I'd rather trust my safety to civil engineers than political will and legislation.