{"id":197,"date":"2005-12-09T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/12\/application-of-technology-to-road.htm"},"modified":"2007-05-28T15:43:14","modified_gmt":"2007-05-28T14:43:14","slug":"application-of-technology-to-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/12\/application-of-technology-to-road.htm","title":{"rendered":"The application of technology to road safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--113438720783118651-->Earlier this afternoon, as I drove home in the dark across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire, it struck me just how many satellite navigation systems people are fitted in cars today (at least, I assume they were sat-nav devices, and that people were not just watching TV!).  I don&#8217;t have sat-nav for two (three) reasons &#8211; I have a map book, I have a very good memory for remembering routes (and I was too tight to specify another \u00c2\u00a31200 options last time I ordered a car); however I do acknowledge that not everyone is a comfortable with their route planning capabilities and everyone I know with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomtom.com\/\">Tom Tom<\/a> raves about it.<\/p>\n<p>My car tells me when I, or one of my passengers, isn&#8217;t wearing a seatbelt.  It also turns on the wipers when the windscreen is wet.  So, in general, I would say that applying technology to increase driver comfort and safety is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sad though, that technology hasn&#8217;t been used to detect when a driver needs to use their lights, or when there is a fault with a vehicle and it is unsafe to drive.  On the same journey, the first hour of it was spent driving in fog (although visibility was still about 400 metres) &#8211; that meant that there was a mixture of people driving without lights (!) and people who thought they needed to use their rear fog lights even though I was right behind them and perfectly aware of their presence.<\/p>\n<p>A few months back I had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/08\/caught-by-robot-police-smile-please.htm\">a rant about the replacement of real police by cameras in the name of road safety<\/a> &#8211; my point being that a traffic policeman can exercise judgement over an issue that&#8217;s much broader than simply speeding, whereas a camera can&#8217;t.  At the same time, I&#8217;ve seen a rise in unchecked vehicle defects.  A few weeks back I followed a car for several miles which was belching out black noxious fumes.  Today, I followed a car with only one working brake light which was directly above the rear fog light that was dazzling me.  Later, a 7.5 tonne truck pulled out in front of me to overtake someone, and I saw the indicators on the side of the cab, but narrowly avoided a collision as his rear indicators didn&#8217;t work and it was all a bit too late.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of all these gadgets, please can someone apply technology (or even people) to road safety &#8211; and I don&#8217;t just mean the politically correct issue of excess speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this afternoon, as I drove home in the dark across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire, it struck me just how many satellite navigation systems people are fitted in cars today (at least, I assume they were sat-nav devices, and that people were not just watching TV!). 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