North Norfolk

I was driving down to Sheringham recently and listening to Steve Wright on Radio 2. Part of his show is called Serious Jockin (NO g) and listeners contact Steve telling them what they are up to no G i.e #seriousjockin – Hi Steve we are this weekend surfin (NO g) .

I was seriously tempted to text Steve saying “Hi Steve driving to North Norfolk , No 3G or 4G or any G at all!!)

North Norfolk is an area with a very high number of retired people for whom the option of a driverless could be life changing so the current appalling lack of Wi-Fi across the region appears a serious omission by Wi-Fi providers.

Lack of Wi-Fi is also switching off the charms of Norfolk to the younger generation who want to not only be able to surf in the sea but on their phones as well.

If North Norfolk did solve their Wi-Fi would this have a positive impact for travellers in driverless cars as the cars would have been programmed with how to tackle the following situations :-

– Being stuck behind tractors crawling along with their driver’s pretending to be totally oblivious to the massive car queue building behind them .

–  The 10-12 a.m witching hour when caravans have to be off the sites or waiting to get on the sites causing extra congestion on the roads.

– Cars being driven by a certain age demographic everywhere at speeds of 20-25 mph no matter what the size of the road or how few cars are actually on it. The 30 mph signs are more there for speeds to aspire to rather than slow down to.

– Cars being  parked in any spot the owner chooses by playing the blue badge card.

One funny side effect of the current lack of Wi-Fi though is that you may get driverless cars driving around for hours in search of the holy grail of finding the elusive Wi-Fi signal. Passengers might fall asleep just before King’s Lynn and wake hours later to find that they are still just outside King’s Lynn.

So what happens if a driverless car does venture past Kings Lynn and does lose it’s Wi-Fi signal. An invaluable option might be to fit a speaking device to the car. I must admit though a talking car even one painted yellow and green with a Norfolk accent/dialect option will not cut the mustard in rural North Norfolk as you will still not be from around here.

But what happens if all of sudden there was 100% Wi-Fi coverage you would no longer encounter all these things that  quintessentially makes a trip to North Norfolk be a memorable trip to North Norfolk and so would you feel cheated as not being able recount how it took you 10 hours from the A1 to Cromer because of the tractors, caravans and lack of overtaking options on the roads (at least the “So many people died here” signs might finally be removed)?.

Also the main problem is, if there was 100% Wi-Fi coverage, this  would make it far easier for people to get to North Norfolk with the influx of even more visitors which is probably exactly what they don’t want in the first place and so the current Wi-Fi provisions are perfectly fine thank you very much.