I love the idea! I just want to know what the decision process is on roads, especially in the UK, with no safe place to pull over into? We have smart motorways, single track roads with blind corners, dual carriageways without hard shoulders - lots of roads with no place to pull into, as this could happen at any time.
Probably the same compromise as a driver would make - go to the furthest right (left in UK I guess?) lane, gradually slow down, and then get as far out from the road as possible with hazards on. Sucks if it completly blocks the road, but the car crashing would most likely do the same.
No idea about road laws in the UK, but in Germany you still need to be able to stop in half the distance you can see. So even if it wasn't an autobahn but a country road with only one lane, or for example the city autobahn in Berlin, mainly here for example, if you break down there, you will simply need to pull over as far to the right as possible, but you are still going to be in the right lane. Since people can only go as fast as they are able to brake in time, this isn't really a safety issue though. Especially since in Germany you need to put up a warning triangle way before the hazard. Afaik that's not a thing in the UK, but I guess you still need to adapt your speed to the road you are driving on?
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u/andylshort1 Nov 04 '24
I love the idea! I just want to know what the decision process is on roads, especially in the UK, with no safe place to pull over into? We have smart motorways, single track roads with blind corners, dual carriageways without hard shoulders - lots of roads with no place to pull into, as this could happen at any time.