Smart Motorways

[chrisd]

What do you do when you break down on a dual carriageway ?

Take the same position as they advise you on an airplane and pray - not that praying helps one jot

 

[Billysboots]

If I personally broke down on a smart motorway, I'd be half tempted to look in the mirror and put my brakes on so the car behind crashed into me at a controlled pace so I've got protection.

You’re joking, right? Please tell me you’re joking.

 

[Tashyboy]

Road tax is too cheap, it should be ramped up. Outside of logistics and business it should start at £5k and rise accordingly. Most of the traffic in inner cities and B roads are people who are too lazy to get public transport and run bangers. They're the cause of most issues. Price them off the roads and it's a game changer.

I would guess with that comment you live in an area were public transport is excellent. For the vast majority of people, travel is not a luxury.

 

[BiMGuy]

These will be scrapped in a few years, the best thing the average person can do is make sure your car is fairly new, serviced and reliable. Don't take a risk with tyres, always buy the best.

If I personally broke down on a smart motorway, I'd be half tempted to look in the mirror and put my brakes on so the car behind crashed into me at a controlled pace so I've got protection.

I’ve read some absolute garbage on here. But this wins by a long way. I you genuinely think this. Please do the rest of us a favor and hand your license back.

 

[Tashyboy]

Have you

I’ve read some absolute garbage on here. But this wins by a long way. I you genuinely think this. Please do the rest of us a favor and hand your license back.

At least he has proven that some of the drivers on motorways don’t know how to drive on them ? either that or he is a WUM and got the response he was after.

 

[clubchamp98]

These will be scrapped in a few years, the best thing the average person can do is make sure your car is fairly new, serviced and reliable. Don't take a risk with tyres, always buy the best.

If I personally broke down on a smart motorway, I'd be half tempted to look in the mirror and put my brakes on so the car behind crashed into me at a controlled pace so I've got protection.

What if he swerves and causes a multi car pile up.?

 

[Fade and Die]

What if he swerves and causes a multi car pile up.?

He wants protection, so the family that rear ends him gets wiped out by a lorry driver watching YouTube on his phone rather than him!!Seriously one of the strangest things I have read on here.

 

[CliveW]

Two wrongs don't make a right and dual carriageways don't tend to have the same volume of heavy goods vehicles. The point with smart motorways is they did have a hard shoulder which has been removed.

Living beside the A90, the major trunk road to and from Aberdeen, I would say there is a higher volume of HGVs than there is on the motorway network in Scotland. We also have a very small motorway network and most of that is two lanes with no hard shoulder or lighting, particularly north of the Central belt. What I do notice when driving down south is the complete lack of distance between vehicles which leaves little or no reaction time if something happens in front of you.

 

[Billysboots]

He wants protection, so the family that rear ends him gets wiped out by a lorry driver watching YouTube on his phone rather than him!!Seriously one of the strangest things I have read on here.

A quick glance at the law relating to dangerous driving and, heaven forbid, causing death by dangerous driving, and he might take a slightly different view. I’m still clinging on to the hope it’s a wind up.

 

[chrisd]

I’m still clinging on to the hope it’s a wind up.

I'm clinging to the hope that he doesn't ever drive down here on the M20 near Ashford, Folkestone and Dover - we alrea have enough foreign drivers with a death wish to cope with !

 

[clubchamp98]

A quick glance at the law relating to dangerous driving and, heaven forbid, causing death by dangerous driving, and he might take a slightly different view. I’m still clinging on to the hope it’s a wind up.

I don’t think most of us would have the reactions to do something like that.
It’s putting everyone at risk and if proved should be an offence.

 

[Billysboots]

I don’t think most of us would have the reactions to do something like that.
It’s putting everyone at risk and if proved should be an offence.

If you look at the definition of dangerous driving, deliberately causing a collision on a motorway more than ticks the boxes.

 

[Swango1980]

If you look at the definition of dangerous driving, deliberately causing a collision on a motorway more than ticks the boxes.

I think he should be arrested now, better that than wait for him to actually commit the crime. Bit like the film Minority Report

 

[Billysboots]

I think he should be arrested now, better that than wait for him to actually commit the crime. Bit like the film Minority Report

Well, prevention is better than cure I suppose…….

 

[SaintHacker]

Two wrongs don't make a right and dual carriageways don't tend to have the same volume of heavy goods vehicles. .

How do the HGVs get to the motorways?

 

[Swango1980]

How do the HGVs get to the motorways?

What does that statement mean? Are you saying non-motorway roads are busier than motorways because traffic need to get to the motorway? Strange logic.

 

[SaintHacker]

I’ve read some absolute garbage on here. But this wins by a long way. I you genuinely think this. Please do the rest of us a favor and hand your license back.

Reading some of his other posts I'm not sure he's at an age yet that he can a licence in the first place...

 

[drdel]

It's well known the injury severity is pretty much directly proportion to the differential speed of the two objects at impact. Hence why in motor sport relatively few serious injuries arise (plus a few other factors).

Having broken down stationary vehicles in the same lane as the normal rate of flow is against all highway design logic other than the build cost v safety.

 

[SocketRocket]

How do the HGVs get to the motorways?

My point was that it's not acceptable not to provide a safe place for vehicles too pull off a carrageway where the permitted speeds are fast. Just because this may be the case on a dual carriageway isn't a defence for there being no hard shoulder on a motorway. Does anyone actually think it's safe to pull up on the inside lane on a motorway with no hard shoulder, really!

 

[Ye Olde Boomer]

I really miss the huge turnpike battleships that we used to drive in the sixties here in the US.
We could smash into one another at will. They didn't even have to enforce the drunk driving laws back then.

But, as we all know, nothing lasts forever.