{"id":33017,"date":"2024-04-23T01:13:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T01:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/smart-motorways-how-safe-are-they\/"},"modified":"2024-04-23T01:13:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T01:13:30","slug":"smart-motorways-how-safe-are-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/smart-motorways-how-safe-are-they\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart motorways: How safe are they?"},"content":{"rendered":"<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":1,"featured_media":33018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[8965,109,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33019,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33017\/revisions\/33019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}