| Topic: | Absolute rubbish by Doug Kessler | |
| Posted by: | Jonty Nicholls | |
| Date/Time: | 15/01/16 20:45:00 |
| Emphatically not Mr. Kessler. YOU are the one talking absolute rubbish and being disingenuously misleading to boot. You cite 3 (fairly obscure) sources. The first gives no safety data related to digital billboards but claims (in 194 pages) that digital billboards are distracting and therefore should be legislated against. The second concludes "Whether the electronic billboards attract too much attention and constitute a traffic safety hazard cannot be answered conclusively based on the present data." The third doesn't even mention them (but does mention mobile phones and PDAs - far more worthwhile targets for anyone concerned over road safety ). Maybe you're relying on people being too lazy to check your sources or maybe you haven't checked them that carefully yourself, in a hurried bit of confirmation bias via google. Also you've misquoted me. I did not "quaintly" say that "if there was any evidence such billboards were unsafe we would have heard of it". I said there had been studies, which showed they were not unsafe (subject to limits on intensity, flicker, size and other factors which have built into the planning rules). And quoted one. If people think these billboards are ugly, fair enough, that's their call. They are not unsafe. There is even one next to the southbound section of the M1, round about exit 2. |