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OT: Sign of the times
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For all you lorri driving forigners out there
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And creating a poncy new sign is the way to solve it, rather than using
existing signage to warn of width, height or weight restrictions?
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Quite - the routes are already clearly signed as the 'traffic engineer'
says, and putting up another sign is hardly going to make these drivers
any less dense, is it?
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The responsibility should be on the SatNav manufacturers to add options
for "lorry route" to add to the existing "fastest", "shortest",
"bicycle" and "walking".
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Garmin Streetpilot has a "truck" setting, but it seems to be only a
restricted speed thing, as it plots a more direct route than the
motorway without doing the farmyard and back alley thing that
"shortest" often gives you. I used the "truck" setting to get me home
after a BH weekend trip, and it took me down some seriously minor
roads - single track with passing places and such like. No use for a
44-tonner, IWHT.
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The responsibility should be on the truck driver to be sure that he's
following a route that's passable for trucks. The satnav is an aid to
navigation, not the captain of the ship - otherwise, "the satnav made me do
it" would be a valid defence for speeding, dangerous driving etc.
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"DING"
Right on the button that monotreme
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Of course, customer demand would also make it possible for them to add
things like "scenic" which would take you through the best bits of
Scotland even if you were just popping down the road, "hoonage" to make
a route through twisties but avoiding speed cameras for bikers, and
"ginge" to avoid any of those nasty corner things.
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Spot on. It shouldn't be beyond techies to develop an algorithm to
calculate hoonage based on degree of twistiness etc. If they took
TomTom rider seriously they'd have done it already.
BTW. On the TomTom site there are a few bike routes you can download
but only Scotland and Wales I think. I'd like to know if there's
anywhere else to download bike routes.
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