Glow-in-the-dark road installed in the Netherlands

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http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/...est+Stories%29

Glow-in-the dark road markings have replaced streetlights along a 500m stretch of highway in the Netherlands this week.

The initial design was proposed back in 2012 by Studio Roosegaarde as an attempt to bring technology and design into the real world with practical applications, Liat Clark from Wired UK reports.

The result is pretty magical, with one Netherlands news report claiming: "It looks like you are driving through a fairytale."

The glow-in-the-dark paint was constructed using a photo-luminescnet owner integrated into road paint.

There's been no new as yet as to how this luminous paint will hold up against wear and tear, but it can glow for a steady eight hours if it's powered by the sun during the day.

The founder of Studio Roosegaarde, Daan Roosegaarde, told Wired UK it was originally planned that weather markings such as snowdrops would appear on the road when the temperature reached a certain level, but for now the highway in Oss features just the glow-in-the-dark markings. And even that involved a lot of bureaucratic hoop jumping.

[pottery beige]

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[Polyal]

That is awesome.

Less poles, less cabling to them, something else for someone not to wrap themselves around (mind you they will find something else). I cant see the harm.

I wonder if they could make lines that semi glow when headlights hit them. Plenty of roads in the middle of no where that are "dangerous" that could benefit from it.

It looks a bit trippy but you would get used to it.

[Franco Cozzo]

Good idea, or they could use some sort of reflective stuff, like whats in high vis jackets, those reflective stripes light up like Christmas trees with the slightest bit of light that hits them.

[Nova 8]

Looks like something out of Tron.

[ford71V8]

I wonder if it works as well as that 'photo' makes it look.

[Smoke Pursuit]

Will help all those that drive around with the headlights off at night!@

[bangm001]

Yeah psychedelic!! I have only been to Amsterdam and wow... Totally different approach to sex/drugs to the rest of the world. Seems to work fine there though!

[AndyXR6T]

Wow, finally utilising products that were invented in the 70s...

[XW WA]

North west coastal Hwy around Canarvon is made with white rock (quartz I think ) and at night when you have at least half a moon you can turn your lights off and the road glows silver and it goes for a couple of hunded k s

[MITCHAY]

Sort of reminds me of rainbow road in Mario Kart :

[kaniSS]

Take a good look at this boys. You will never see that happen in Australia. Perhaps in 200 years time. lol

[turbodewd]

Originally Posted by pottery beige

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Riiight. Rot ya brains. Ruin ya brains. Nice one.

[pottery beige]

Originally Posted by turbodewd

Riiight. Rot ya brains. Ruin ya brains. Nice one.

u cooked??

[Franco Cozzo]

Baked not fried

[pottery beige]

roasted maaaate

[distortion]

Check out glowfast - I grabbed some adhesive tape from them and it glows like crazy all night. Wonder where they got the glow powder from!

[CoupeKing]

Street Rod, Commodore 64.

[cherokee45]

Brilliant, no pun intended.

[tut0r]

Originally Posted by MITCHAY

Sort of reminds me of rainbow road in Mario Kart :

Lets just hope no one ends up falling off!

[mik]

Looks great, some of the dodgey bits of road where line marking just dissapears in poor conditions on multiple lane high speed areas it would be fantastic.........but we would never see it in victoria, one multiple lane section of road with a sweeper not far from where I live, it took them 6 months to even re line mark after doing a road repair............ we are lucky to even get the cheap white lines!

[Franco Cozzo]

Originally Posted by mik

Looks great, some of the dodgey bits of road where line marking just dissapears in poor conditions on multiple lane high speed areas it would be fantastic.........but we would never see it in victoria, one multiple lane section of road with a sweeper not far from where I live, it took them 6 months to even re line mark after doing a road repair............ we are lucky to even get the cheap white lines!

It took a construction company a year to finish 1km of 4 lane road out here and by the time they finished it the white lines were badly deteriorated that you couldn't see them in the wet.

[Iggle Piggle]

Looks cool.

Reminds me of part of that awesome vid for Solar Freakin' Roadways http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlTA3rnpgzU

[mik]

Originally Posted by Big Damo

It took a construction company a year to finish 1km of 4 lane road out here and by the time they finished it the white lines were badly deteriorated that you couldn't see them in the wet.

Doesn't surprise me mate, decent roads seem a very low priority for for some shires.

[Crazy Dazz]

Originally Posted by kaniSS

Take a good look at this boys. You will never see that happen in Australia. Perhaps in 200 years time. lol

with good reason, can you imagine the load of bugs and wildlife that would be attracted.

[mik]

No not really.

[tasdex]

they should use it in all the wheel damaging potholes first ...

would run out of it before the lanes got done .

[ford71V8]

would look like like this

[tasdex]

you must live in tassie ....
or holiday here ...?

[Nikked]

Originally Posted by tut0r

Lets just hope no one ends up falling off!

Or hits a dinosaur, basted things...


(wait, they were dinosaurs, right?)