TV programmes about roads, 29 February

[Voltaire]

I watched a few minutes of it, as said above you could see the coast road was clear behind the truck as it curved around over a km.
The other one where three camper vans passed three truck going up an incline....why were the trucks driving so far to the left..... on the hard shoulder....trying to create a situation for the TV?
Truck drivers are hardly able to point the finger at poor driving either.
Just another stupid 'reality' program.....cutting into Hillary Barrys sun bed allowance.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Lol very close! A train 50 metres away going 80km/h... I wouldn't try it I wouldn't even try it if I couldn't see the train - if the barrier is down, it is down for a reason. These dickheads don't think about the fact that they could get killed, or the fact that the poor train driver will have to live with killing them. Even though it isn't their fault, the train driver will still have nightmares about it.

sometimes they are down because there is a fault in the system: the default mode is that the barrier arms come down and the lights flash (better safe than sorry)..... the problem there is if there is no train, you're trapped.

[oneofsix]

sometimes they are down because there is a fault in the system: the default mode is that the barrier arms come down and the lights flash (better safe than sorry)..... the problem there is if there is no train, you're trapped.

problem here is that if there is no train you get sick of waiting and drive around them starting bad conditioning.

They need something like the traffic lights where they all flash amber if a fault occurs, this lets you know to be careful and is the normal condition for flashing yellow.

If traffic lights followed the barrier arm idea they would all go red and if a particular intersection had a habit of going faulty this would thus condition drivers to ignore red lights.