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The Dutch design firms Studio Roosegaarde and Hejimans Infrastructure just came up with a brilliant prototype for a “Smart Highway” that uses interactive lighting that adapts to driving conditions to make the roads safer. Enough with crap infotainment systems inside cars that distract us from driving with Twitter and dinner reservations—let’s light up the roads like a night club until no one crashes again.
In addition to obvious additions like glow-in-the-dark lines that charge during the day with sunlight, the Smart Highway would feature innovations like dynamic paint that communicates information about the road you’re driving on. For example, wouldn’t it be nice to know when you’re about to drive over a patch of ice?
And though this mostly a concept, it’s not all pie in the sky. According to Studio Roosegaarde, the “first metres” of Smart Highway will be built in the Netherlands. How many metres? We’re guessing not very many because, from the looks of it, the future of driving will be expensive. [Studio Roosegaarde via Design Boom]
Our road lines and whatnot are already photoflourescent. Also this probably wont last as long.
where are you?
Isn’t this why we already have cats-eys in the roads of the uk?
I wonder if phosphorescent paint would last longer than cat-eyes, they seem to break up after a year. and if it’d be cheaper over time to repaint than to install new cat-eyes? (they probably already thought of this)
Anyone else who’d go out for night jaunts playing the tron soundtrack if this was brought in?
This would be FAR too expensive to implement. Cool concept though
Just need to invest in a Light-bike!
infrared/thermal HUD would be better and probs cheaper.
ive always thought the road lines should be made dayglow, then use UV streetlights to highlight it.