No more dynamic smart motorways

Enormous gantry signs every 10 seconds are not enough for people then? Says a lot about the intelligence of the people you are sharing the road with. Beggars belief that it could be considered too complicated.
 
No surprise there. If you have a system that changes constantly, and then rely on the average person to use it properly, you're asking for trouble. You either have to take people out of the equation (self-driving everything) or you stop the system changing all the time.
 
Clarkey said:
Enormous gantry signs every 10 seconds are not enough for people then? Says a lot about the intelligence of the people you are sharing the road with. Beggars belief that it could be considered too complicated.
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Yes it does, but that's what you've got to work with. If you can't make the system work because it's too confusing for people to use, then you have to change the system. It's the pragmatic approach to deal with how people are, rather than how you want them to be. That means removing people from the system, or changing the system to make it easier to use.
 
Clarkey said:
Enormous gantry signs every 10 seconds are not enough for people then? Says a lot about the intelligence of the people you are sharing the road with. Beggars belief that it could be considered too complicated.
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The problem is that Highways blatantly lie from the offset in the article.

Regularly use the M1 in Yorkshire at different times of the day. There is NO hard shoulder at all. It's been converted into a full time lane. So the nonsense that the hard shoulder is only used at busy times is a complete outrageous lie.

Secondly a lot of the issues are with Highways themselves and response times to incidents.

Recently there was a van stranded in lane one. Driver correctly used the emergency phone and spoke with Highways. It took them eighteen mins from the call till gantries were activated.

Frequently been on a smart motorway, gantry lit up with "congestion" or "incident" ahead. Miles at 40mph & no sign of said incident.

And finally recently on the M5, Highways activated a 20 mph limit by accident and left it for 17 hours.

You can't have a smart motorway when it's operated by dumb front-bottoms.
 
tom_nieto said:
Smart motorways will be awesome once we stop letting humans drive on them.
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At that point, they'd likely be unnecessary anyway as self-drive cars would use the space far more efficiently. You'd likely not need 3 lanes if the whole country had automatic transport. Agree with Resident - parts of the M5 "smart" are 4 permanent lanes with a "refuge" every few miles - chaos ensues when a breakdown occurs and cannot reach said refuge.

That article really proves how bloody stupid people are these days. It isn't complicated, people are just too damn thick these days. I mean come on, if you can't notice a big red X on the overhead gantry then I think your overall driving ability needs to be placed under scrutiny. Surely that's driving without due care and attention? To be fair, I drive quite a lot and on these "smart" motorways and can't say I've ever witnessed people in the first lane when they shouldn't have been.
 
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