M4 minutia
The eastbound slip-road traffic lights at the Maidenhead junction of the M4 were operational today for the first time. They didn’t seem to be helping much but I was passing at a time later than usual so perhaps it’s relative.
My view on “the future” is that it is arrived at by the accumulation of many small changes, a bit like evolution. This is probably why flying cars aren’t likely to turn up any time soon; there’s little evolutionary advantage to a car that flies or glides a little bit, so the process of getting to a fully flying car is a bit of a non-starter. Bummer.