A strip of "smart" highway with glow-in-the-dark road markings has opened in the Netherlands to improve road safety.
When Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde unveiled his smart highway back in late 2012, it seemed an ambitious project.
Designed as a means of both improving road safety and environmental friendliness, it proposed several features, including: dynamic, temperature-sensitive markings that could change to indicate weather conditions; glowing road markings; wind indication lights; and a lane embedded with induction coils to charge electric cars as they drove over.
A 500-metre strip of the proposed road has opened on the N329 in Oss, but the features have been stripped down to just one: the glow-in-the-dark lane markings.
Read more: Glow-in-the-dark 'smart' highway opens in the Netherlands - Crave
When Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde unveiled his smart highway back in late 2012, it seemed an ambitious project.
Designed as a means of both improving road safety and environmental friendliness, it proposed several features, including: dynamic, temperature-sensitive markings that could change to indicate weather conditions; glowing road markings; wind indication lights; and a lane embedded with induction coils to charge electric cars as they drove over.
A 500-metre strip of the proposed road has opened on the N329 in Oss, but the features have been stripped down to just one: the glow-in-the-dark lane markings.
Read more: Glow-in-the-dark 'smart' highway opens in the Netherlands - Crave
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