i guess they still haven't learned to lock up yet

"dumpsterfire!" (2020covidsux) 08/13/2019 at 08:12 • Filed to: None

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Svend > dumpsterfire! 08/13/2019 at 08:28

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Lol. We just trialed some multilingual signs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-48913195

Information signs are being displayed in different languages on an approach to the M6 in Cumbria to help lorry drivers from overseas.

The portable electronic messages have been placed along the A66 and A69 to near Carlisle to warn of overnight junction closures.

An automatic number plate reader identifies the vehicle’s origin, so the appropriate language can be flashed up.

It is thought to be the first time such signs have been used in the UK.

The languages used are Spanish, German, French, Polish, Romanian, Dutch, Lithuanian, Slovak and Hungarian.

Steve Mason, from Highways England, said: “We carried out major improvements along the A66 near Penrith last year and while the communications and diversion routes worked well, we had some feedback from Cumbria Police that foreign lorry drivers were missing some of the messaging.

ttyymmnn > Svend 08/13/2019 at 09:05

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Unless the immigrant truck is being driven by an immigrant from yet another country. 

Svend > ttyymmnn 08/13/2019 at 09:08

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You are a glass half empty kind of person!

Ash78, voting early and often > Svend 08/13/2019 at 09:17

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If you’ve made it across the Channel and all the way up north, I sure hope you’ve picked up enough English to navigate the roads by that point. Just saying.

ttyymmnn > Svend 08/13/2019 at 09:19

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When realism starts to look like pessimism. 

Svend > ttyymmnn 08/13/2019 at 09:30

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But you could say that about an Italian car driver.

You can please some of the people some of the time but you can’t please all the people all of the time. 

Svend > Ash78, voting early and often 08/13/2019 at 09:36

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The thing is, many truck drivers go point A to point B.

Some won’t know English or English to read, or indeed many of the other languages withing Europe.

I mean Europe is 44 countries.

ttyymmnn > Svend 08/13/2019 at 09:44

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Milky > dumpsterfire! 08/13/2019 at 09:49

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Just fyi hacking them was super easy. They all probably still have a default password.

https://jalopnik.com/how-to-hack-an-electronic-road-sign-5141430

Ash78, voting early and often > Svend 08/13/2019 at 09:56

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True — I just meant that by the time they had traversed hundreds of miles of English roads, it would look pretty familiar to them by that point.

Unless I’m misunderstanding the trucking business...I’m imagining you’re talking about lorry drivers coming up from the continent. You might be talking about local lorry drivers just doing short-haul jobs.

facw > Svend 08/13/2019 at 10:46

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That seems like the sort of thing that would go over real well with the pro-Brexit crowd.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > dumpsterfire! 08/13/2019 at 11:38

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and its still funny everytime