Advanced Driving Hub

These days I use a phone and Google for directions. Mine’s able to connect to the car audio via bluetooth so spoken directions are loud and clear. The actual phone however is tucked away out of sight, such as in a side pocket of my jacket. Being invisible the temptation to look at it is removed and...

"Show me a driver who says they have never exceeded a speed limit and I will show you either a liar or a menace." I can't remember who it was said that but I think it was someone in officialdom related to driver training? Anyway, I wonder how the app will get type approval for recording al...

"New app could soon turn every car into a speed camera – and report traffic offences at the touch of a button."

https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/driving-tech/new-app-could-soon-turn-every-car-into-a-speed-camera/

Do you treat that junction differently in a car to on a bike?

In this case, people were trying to let the ambulance through but it was painfully slow progress. I'm not defending smart motorways, I'm saying that drivers could easily have created room for the ambo. Either If Red Xs were displayed, keeping out of that lane Or Creating a corridor by moving across...

There's plenty of room (lanes 1 & 2 are typically 10ft wide. On 4 lane sections, lanes e & 4 may be slightly narrower) to move aside and create an emergency 'rescue' corridor. See 2:00. There is a big difference between theory and reality, advice and practice and if the lane is already full...

Had need to travel from Sussex to the Dartford Crossing today and it required the use of "Smart" Motorway for a lot of the M23 and M25. Once on the M25 (anti-clockwise) we saw a broken down vehicle in L1 on the opposite carriageway. They had not managed to make it to a refuse and were bloc...

This appeared in my mailbox today...

Major system failure leaves smart motorways across England without safety features for two hours

And if the failure is such that you can't make it? Do you really want to be forced to sit in a live lane with 40 tons of HGV sharing it, maybe with a driver that is staring at his phone "Want to"? Of course not. But it won't stop me using them. Nor me, unless there is a viable alternative...

... for me, part of driving on a smart motorway is to be prepared, if the car starts to fail - the merest hint, I'll do the utmost to coax it into the next refuge area. And if the failure is such that you can't make it? Do you really want to be forced to sit in a live lane with 40 tons of HGV shari...