Motorway gantry 'smart' messages...why wrong so often?

[saaby93]

jamei303 said:

I thought "smart" motorways were meant to be covered by CCTV, making it easy to spot debris, or at least vehicles avoiding it.

Its the wrong type of cameras for that

[anonymous-user]

saaby93 said:

jamei303 said:

I thought "smart" motorways were meant to be covered by CCTV, making it easy to spot debris, or at least vehicles avoiding it.

Its the wrong type of cameras for that

And when Gafferjim was in a control room he could tell you to within 100m usually where debris was just by looking at the "q" on the Midas screen and sometimes narrow it down to a lane. No cameras required

[robinessex]

What's the point of smart motorways, with dumb drivers. If the simple rule, KEEP LEFT EXCEPT WHEN OVERTAKING was observed, the motorway capacity would be greatly increased.

[saaby93]

robinessex said:

What's the point of smart motorways, with dumb drivers. If the simple rule, KEEP LEFT EXCEPT WHEN OVERTAKING was observed, the motorway capacity would be greatly increased.

That translates to dont use the overtaking lane except for overtaking

slow lane, fast lane, overtaking lane and however many even slower lanes that they can add

[bungle]

robinessex said:

What's the point of smart motorways, with dumb drivers. If the simple rule, KEEP LEFT EXCEPT WHEN OVERTAKING was observed, the motorway capacity would be greatly increased.

Indeed. I use the M6 in the Midlands every morning, and most mornings the hard shoulder is "live", but it is pretty much empty, even though the other lanes are all busy. I really don't understand why people don't use it.

[jamei303]

bungle said:

Indeed. I use the M6 in the Midlands every morning, and most mornings the hard shoulder is "live", but it is pretty much empty, even though the other lanes are all busy. I really don't understand why people don't use it.

I don't know about the M6 but on parts of the M25 it's considerably narrower than the other lanes, which results in trucks not using it.

If I wanted to travel at 60mph I would certainly use lane 3 rather than be sandwiched between a line of trucks and the barrier.

[WCNFSL117]

robinessex said:

What's the point of smart motorways, with dumb drivers. If the simple rule, KEEP LEFT EXCEPT WHEN OVERTAKING was observed, the motorway capacity would be greatly increased.

Absolutely. Driving on the M25 & the M4 more often than not it's quicker and easier to drive in lane 1/2 vs the convoy of idiots tailgating each other and braking in lane 3/4. They should put signs up or something, it would reduce so much artificial congestion.

[Digby]

robinessex said:

What's the point of smart motorways, with dumb drivers.

Exactly. We have already been told one dumb driver can set the system off which in turn, turns everything into a car park once the system kicks in.

[robinessex]

I know of too many these days who think if they arrive at their destination without hitting anything, or knocking anyone over, they are good drivers !!