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The article mentions a promising first-year progress report (with reduced fatality rate). A related wikipedia article [1] also mentions fewer accidents in the p
by thih9 6y ago
The article mentions a promising first-year progress report (with reduced fatality rate). A related wikipedia article [1] also mentions fewer accidents in the pilot 2006 program:
> This has proved very successful, with journey times decreasing by 26% northbound and 9% southbound. Drivers can also better predict their journey times as the variability decreased by 27%. The average accident rate dropped from 5.2 to 1.5 per month.
It would be interesting to know what caused the project to start showing worse results.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder_(road)#Peak_period_use_by_all_traffic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoulder_(road)#Peak_period_us...
- zelos 6y agoI don't know if they did start showing worse results. I think the problem is that a death from a collision with a stopped car is very visible, while the drop in average accidents over a longer period isn't.
- Neil44 6y agoThere are some schemes with automatic detection of stranded vehicles and lane closure. These work well. But some of the schemes rely on humans looking at cameras to spot people and shut lanes. This has left people sat in live lanes for 20+ minutes, eventually someone isn't paying attention and hits them.