2 for 1 tickets to Casablanca, this coming Monday

WEST MIDLANDS Drivers on the M42 will be the first in the country to be warned about traffic conditions and dangers ahead via digital picture messages on overhead signs, which will be introduced this week on an 11-mile stretch of the motorway in the West Midlands. The Highways Agency said that six months of testing the pictograms had resulted in reduced fuel consumption and vehicle emissions. The AA said that the signs would also be more easily understood by foreign drivers.
The Highways Agency said that using the hard shoulder during peak periods had cut journey times and the accident rate.
@Nigel: They're way ahead of you. I drove down to cornwall last week and noticed several signs exhorting you to check your fuel level.
Amusingly through one village, there were also signs that said (I forget the exact wording) something to the effect of "Reminder: You're still in a 30 mph zone".
Quite why they couldn't put up nice round signs with a big 30 in the middle of them bamboozles me.
PaulH, Londongrad, USSK
The default setting for the signs should be a message reading "Do not read pointless signs while driving"
Simes, Sevenoaks,
Before long they will be instructing drivers to check their fuel level, or switch off their mobiles, or spend some money at the ever appalling M-Way services. Just as with those expensively installed matrix units with nothing else to say.
Nigel Wroe, Doncaster, Yorkshire
All very commendable, as long as this is not used to tell us fibs to slow us down for no good reason other than to lower emmisions or just to be plain bossy.
Moog, Ipswich, Wisconsin