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Also, what happens most of the time on UK motorways, drivers ignore the signage.
by lilSebastian 5y ago
Also, what happens most of the time on UK motorways, drivers ignore the signage.
- londons_explore 5y agoThat's why they need actuated spikes... It's pretty hard to keep driving at dangerous speeds when your tyres are flat... Ignore the signage and you'll be buying new tyres... That will soon have everyone paying attention to the signs.
- ytwySXpMbS 5y agoThat’s obviously ridiculous, you can’t purposefully puncture a moving cars tires to enforce a lane. You’d kill people, what about people who missed the signs?
- londons_explore 5y agoPeople who miss the signs also kill people. Which is less bad?
- nl 5y agoDeliberately creating a safety hazard is much worse than someone who is inattentive.
- lilSebastian 5y agoIntroducing a safety hazard, likely to cause further issues, when vehicles are traveling at speed, with nowhere else to go. Good job on suggesting one way to make things much worse.
- tomatocracy 5y agoThe signage is a disaster on these roads. Lane closures are a very unobtrusive red X and not posted frequently enough. Text is too short and doesn't indicate how far ahead any hazard might be. Some signs are in a different style (small board overhead rather than a gantry across all lanes) which can easily be mistaken for an advisory notice not a command/prohibition. Worst of all, the signs are almost always massively out of date and present a false alarm. You'll see a lane closure and very short text "obstruction in road" sign but then nothing actually there. I don't do huge mileage on these roads and I've probably come across this false alarm scenario 40 or 50 times, and never seen an actual hazard which was signed. It's not at all surprising they get ignored by a significant minority of drivers.
- lilSebastian 5y ago100% Agree. It's badly designed and badly implemented. Dangerous by design.