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Signing off
We suggested that instead of sending pictures of car crashes to your mobile phone to warn you of traffic jams, it might be safer to use the overhead signs put in place specifically to do this.
However… Murray Grainger at Elizabeth Finn Homes was in Canada recently, driving west towards Vancouver. ‘I noticed an overhead motorway sign that read: “Focus on the road”,’ he says. ‘But it was too late, I had taken my focus off the road and was reading the sign.’
Robin Jones at the Institution of Analysts and Programmers points out that the electronic motorway signs in his area frequently display the message: ‘This sign not in use’.
‘But they are, aren’t they?’ he says. ‘Otherwise how would I know that they weren’t in use? But if I know that they’re not in use, they can’t tell me anything, so I don’t know that they’re not in use.’
Would it be more useful if other car models were mentioned as being on the road, and not just the humble Focus.
Posted by :Tony | November 23, 2006 12:45 PM