Smart motorways to be reviewed over driver safety fears

[Alan]

I don’t think re-testing would help. The offenders in the main aren’t incompetent, they just think they are above the law. Faced with a test situation they’d drive properly.
Interestingly, about 10 years ago when I was researching automobile puncture incidents, I came across an interesting statistic. Your life expectancy on the hard shoulder of a motorway is of the order of 20 minutes. I wonder if the smart motorway planners took this into account.