RE: Glow-in-the-dark roads coming

[marcosgt]

sanctum said:

so.. this is cheaper than reflective cat's eyes is it?

Probably, just run a vehicle down the road with a bucket and a wheel behind it.

Compare that the digging up sections and sticking in cat's eyes... Seems obvious which would be cheaper to me...

M.

[TheHeretic]

How will it fare in wet weather?

[Renny]

Captain Muppet said:

Freakuk said:

So what happens when we have a few inches of snow? no sunlight hits them and they won't reflect through the snow?

They'll work exactly as well as the current road markings in snow, except you won't be able to see the snowflake markings that warn you of low temperatures.

If you don't realise snow on the road is probably slippery, you shouldn't be driving

[German]

Great idea, but I still fail to understand why so many roads in the UK (including Motorways?!?) are lit....My car has lights on the front, when it gets dark I turn them on. Fair play around houses/in town, but lighting all those roads must cost a fortune, surely?

[GadgeS3C]

Nice idea but nothing radically new.

As others have posted you can get very good results from current road marking technology with glass microspheres etc.

Trouble is they cost more than the cheapo crap so you get poor markings that wear out in a short time as they save money from this years budget.

Can't see that changing.