The possibilities are mind-boggling. People are so flipping clever!!!!
(Wonder how long it will take the asphalt and power companies to kill this one?)
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Holy Moley! What a great idea. I especially like the fact that the roadway would deliver internet web access, elctricity, cable television, etc to each house. The safety benefits are astounding. The embedded roadways for self-driving cars could also be incorporated, and then a great deal of the traffic accidents caused by impaired drivers could be avoided. As an enthusiast driver I can’t say I’m really happy to let some machine take over driving me places, but so long as I had some roads where I could drive myself I’d be happy. In 75 years we won’t recognize any country that adopts this technology. I’m still considering the possibilities.
Wow! Incredible, but it actually sounds possible! What an amazing world we would be living in — the possibilities are endless.
ready4more: for the aging boomers self-driving cars are going to be a necessity in a few more years. My dad is already such a menace that we all plan how to park so he won’t hit our cars at family gatherings.
This is one of the most exciting tech advances I’ve heard in a long time. Talk about the world’s biggest solar cell!
Instead of fighting it, the asphalt and power companies should be figuring out ways to capitalize on it.
or on a cynical note, figuring ways to buy up the technology and withhold it from us.
I wonder if there would be a way to heat the roadway so it never freezes over in winter, so that when it snows, the heat generated will keep the snow from sticking, but will not generate so much heat that the water vapor condenses a few inches off the roadway, making fog. I’d hate to see what a snowplow blade would do to the roadway.
The concept is great, there’s just a lot of development that will be needed.
What CAN happen?
How about electric cars that top off their built in battery FROM the road?
Self-Driving snow plows that remove all but the last centimeter or so of snow, which the road can then melt?
Self draining roads with holes throughout that are self weeding with the solar energy they get?
That is brilliant . That is the kind of thinking that might just save our planet. But we need so much more of it…..
What we really need is for the one’s like this to succeed. They got funding for R*D from the government, but I so fear for the lobbyists that could squelch it…