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Smart Motorway Technology – Is It Smart Enough?

Prepare to be Outsmarted, by a Motorway

Coming shortly, to a motorway near you, is a smart motorway. Motorway driving can be pretty stressful at the best of times, but the smart motorway, well, time will tell if this exercise is a great solution to congestion problems, or the start of an Orwellian nightmare.

It has been decided by the powers that be, that it is more economical and environmentally favourable to utilise the lane of the motorway already in place, than widen the number of carriageways it carries.

The development of technology has led to computers being capable of managing flows of traffic with little or no Continue reading Smart Motorway Technology – Is It Smart Enough?