Sat Nav Warning Roadsigns

[El Saxo]

Clicky here (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070828/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_satnav;_ylt=A0WTUdHRUtRGMkYBfQqdk 3QF)

Is is just me that finds the ideas of these signs a bit ridiculous?

Ok, they have a point about some signs being difficult to understand for foreign drivers etc e.g. 'Unsuitable for xyz type of vehicle'. But why specifically choose to use the satellite image on the sign, why not just a sign of a lorry with a cross through it to indicate 'no lorries' or whatever?

[Viper]

Totally agree with you Saxo.
People could look at a map, see the short cut, take that route and get stuck. Just because a map is now digital and interactive its still a map.
All it takes in that instace is the lorry and a cross through it.

[Mogs]

I know the road, but the use of the sign is ridiculous, the highway code already has a perfectly understandable max. width sign.

[thor]

Yet again, there is no substitute for stupidity.

[svpilot]

Interesting. I have to travel along a narrow lane which often gets blocked by a HGV. Usually foreign. There deffo seems to be an increase in this sort of thing since Satnav systems have become more popular. I don't understand why it should specifically show a satelite though. It would make more sense to make the existing width restriction sign more obvious - maybe use the metric system? I am sure a lot of foreign lorry drivers don't know WTF 6' 6'' means for example.

[timwilky]

Interesting. I have to travel along a narrow lane which often gets blocked by a HGV. Usually foreign. There deffo seems to be an increase in this sort of thing since Satnav systems have become more popular. I don't understand why it should specifically show a satelite though. It would make more sense to make the existing width restriction sign more obvious - maybe use the metric system? I am sure a lot of foreign lorry drivers don't know WTF 6' 6'' means for example.

Then you confuse all the brit drivers who haven't a clue wtf 2m is. If they don't understand British measures they shouldn't be driving here.

Would it not be more simple to actually fit posts at the designated width in the road entrance. If they cannot fit through the posts, they are not going to get down the road.

[Mogs]

The fitting of the posts and the maintenance of them will cost a lot more than a simple sign.

I'm sure the technology will soon sort this problem it can't be that difficult for the mapping software to include road widths and the Satnav user to enter the width of the vehicle.

[the_lone_wolf]

i saw the sign in the paper yesterday, interestingly from what i could make out without reading the article, the sign is blue with a white arrow, similar to a "you must pass this sign on the left" - but it would appear it's meant to mean "no lorries down this road (in the direction of the arrow) even if your GPS tells you to"

so when you get polish pete and his 50 tonner, is he going to interpet the sign as a "do not enter" or a compulsary diversion for large vehicles

didn't seem very well thought out tbh, considering most of the people out there struggle with the current crop of signs:rolleyes:

[Viney]

One ambulance driver with a faulty satnav drove hundreds of miles in the wrong direction while transferring a patient from one hospital in Ilford east of London to another just eight miles (13 km) away


Why was this person even driving an ambulance? Numpty!!

[Viper]

Why was this person even driving an ambulance? Numpty!!
Thats what i thought, for a so called short trip, after half an hour i think i would be thinking, whats wrong:rolleyes:

[TEC]

I'm sure the technology will soon sort this problem it can't be that difficult for the mapping software to include road widths ...
Its not

...and the Satnav user to enter the width of the vehicle.
That would assume the user has the sense to do it ;)

I can fully understand these signs, specially since all the extra wet stuff this year, more than one ford was almost impassable but a satnav will not know that and just tell you to go that way, ditto roads that are not suitable to any motorized vehicle unless its a tractor (had one of them last month in Suffolk cause I didn't fully check my route out). Stopping trucks trying to take the shorter, unsuitable route before they get stuck and so hold up all the traffic is not a bad idea

[Mogs]

I can fully understand these signs, specially since all the extra wet stuff this year, more than one ford was almost impassable but a satnav will not know that and just tell you to go that way, ditto roads that are not suitable to any motorized vehicle unless its a tractor (had one of them last month in Suffolk cause I didn't fully check my route out). Stopping trucks trying to take the shorter, unsuitable route before they get stuck and so hold up all the traffic is not a bad idea
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Agreed and these existing signs should do the job, no need for anything new

[svpilot]

http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/images/signs58.gifhttp://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/images/signs57.gifhttp://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/images/signs56.gif

Agreed and these existing signs should do the job, no need for anything new


Agreed :) And I noticed a few 'dual units' signs on the way home (mainly
the new temporary ones on the A2.) The narrow lane where I often get held up because of lorries getting stuck just has the imperial units. ... I just had the Pulp fiction scene in my head when I typed my last post...

You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?

They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with Cheese?

No, man, they got the metric system, they don't know what the f*** a Quarter Pounder is.

What do they call it?

They call it a Royal with Cheese.

:) classic.

[the_lone_wolf]

They call it a Royal with Cheese.

:) classic.
that's a french monarch...

i think you mean "Royale with cheese"

;)

[svpilot]

#-o

Damn those cheese eating surrender monkeys and their supurfluous letter 'e's

(I cut and pasted it really... :smt105)