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Smart Highway in the Netherlands

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We’ve got smart cars but how about smart roads? Dutch designer Daan
Roosegaarde
teamed up with infrastructure management group Heijmans
to create a special glow-in-the-dark paint that will not only illuminate
the road but alert drivers of the road conditions as well:

Special paint will also be used to paint markers like snowflakes across
the road’s surface — when temperatures fall to a certain point, these
images will become visible, indicating that the surface will likely
be slippery. Roosegaarde says this technology has been around for years,
on things like baby food — the studio has just upscaled it.

The first few hundred metres of glow in the dark, weather-indicating
road will be installed in the province of Branbant in mid-2013, followed
by priority induction lanes for electric vehicles, interactive lights
that switch on as cars pass and wind-powered lights within the next
five years.

The idea is to not only use more sustainable methods of illuminating
major roads, thus making them safer and more efficient, but to rethink
the design of highways at the same time as we continue to rethink vehicle
design. As Studio Roosegaarde sees it, connected cars and internal navigation
systems linked up to the traffic news represent just one half of our
future road management systems — roads need to fill their end of the
bargain and become intelligent, useful drivers of information too.

Liat Clark of Wired UK has the post: Link


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