The ‘dynamic’ hard shoulders that have replaced conventional breakdown lanes on Britain’s smart motorways are unsafe and confusing to drivers, Britain’s transport secretary said. “We’ve got this dynamic hard shoulder that comes and goes,” Grant Shapps told transport committee MPs on Wednesday. “It’s just an insane way to have confusion for drivers,” he said. Drivers don’t know how to use the smart motorway lanes that can be switched from use for broken down vehicles to normal vehicle lanes at peak traffic times or what to do if they break down on “one of these things,” Shapps said. He highlighted the current lack of key “stopped vehicle” technology that notifies control room operators of stationary vehicles within about 20 seconds so that they can close lanes and deploy assistance quickly. It was “entirely wrong to build a so-called smart motorway—and we question the naming of it—without the technology in place to …