{"id":32885,"date":"2024-04-22T20:18:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/22\/smart-motorways-how-safe-are-they\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T20:18:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:18:16","slug":"smart-motorways-how-safe-are-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/22\/smart-motorways-how-safe-are-they\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart motorways: How safe are they?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/92F5\/production\/_133212673_p0hsg04f.jpg?resize=1024,576&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Smart motorways: How safe are they?\" title=\"Smart motorways: How safe are they?\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The technology behind England&#8217;s smart motorway network stops working on a regular basis, the BBC has discovered. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Figures obtained by BBC Panorama have revealed hundreds of incidents when crucial safety equipment was out of action. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">National Highways &#8211; the agency in charge of smart motorways &#8211; says the latest data shows that &#8220;smart motorways are our safest roads&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It says safety is its highest priority, and there are well-rehearsed contingency plans to deal with power outages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-68848418\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Claims that smart motorways tech leaves drivers at risk<\/a> &#8211; <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">read more here.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-68865188\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The technology behind England&#8217;s smart motorway network stops working on a regular basis, the BBC has discovered. Figures obtained by BBC Panorama have revealed hundreds of incidents when crucial safety equipment was out of action. National Highways &#8211; the agency in charge of smart motorways &#8211; says the latest data shows that &#8220;smart motorways are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/92F5\/production\/_133212673_p0hsg04f.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[36659,5037,6557],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32887,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32885\/revisions\/32887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}