Hull City Council deploys smart technology to improve cyclist safety

This is not helpful. It is a distraction and a potential excuse when (not if) it's not working.

A driver's full concentration on reading the road and traffic is what is needed. Nothing else will do

Prediction: In a few months they will fail, and then the council will take 3 years to find a company that is willing to fix them, then the company looks at them and finds that spare parts are no longer being produced. And cyclists are left with nothing again.

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Raised tables will also be placed at each of the three junctions as part of the works, which are due to start this weekend, to underline that pedestrians and cyclists have priority at the junctions.

As far as I am concerned pedestrians following the main road and cyclists on cycle lanes should have priority over those turning in or out of all side roads.
This statement suggests these junctions are different from the born in some way.

Dunno whether to laugh or cry?

Hull are proposing to instal "intelligent road studs" that will "detect cyclists approaching".

So drivers in Hull are ... thicker than f*cking road studs?

[Some of my riding experiences of Hull suggests some of the drivers are thicker than the ordinary road studs ... but that's another story.]

Well I'm prepared to see what they roll out before judgement. Not all places have room for dedicated infrastructure.

It ain't the way to go, look at what happened after air bags were introduced.
This is how it should work - folk supposed to be there, don't hit em. Hit em, take away licence and put in barey place.

Most cyclist already provide their own illuminated "stud" to provide warning of their approach, and yet it seems to make little difference.

I am instantly cynical about this, but I could be wrong. For instance, it could be a genuine attempt to help cyclists as opposed to something where you can just blame them for being hit by motorists who will claim that the 'warning studs' weren't working and they can't be expected to watch the studs and watch out for cyclists at the same time, and the police deem that cyclist video showing them working seconds before and the cyclist being hit from behind/ the side is inadmissible because it isn't 4k video from an overhead drone showing both the cyclist and the vehicle for 2 minutes before and after the incident. A stupid comment? Not as stupid as the Lancashire Constabulary insistence on having confirmatory video from the offending vehicle! We'll have to see some video of this revolutionary new stud technology in action!

"Intelligent studs"?  Heh-heh-heh...

It is amazing, truly amazing, to see the lengths local authorities will go to, and the money that they will spend, in order to install very expensive yet utterly useless infrastructure rather than create proper infrastructure, just to avoid reallocating road space from  motor traffic.