We
have seen the future of highways, and they probably won't have street lights.
That's right light-absorbing, glow-in-the-dark road markings have replaced
traditional street lights on a 500-meter stretch of highway in The Netherlands.
To accomplish this, the roads are treated with a special foto-luminizing powder
that's charged by the sun during the day, which allows the marks to glow for up
to 10 hours at night.
Designer
of this project and innovator Daan Roosegaarde says, "One day I was
sitting in my car in the Netherlands, and I was amazed by these roads we spend
millions on but no one seems to care what they look like and how they behave. I
started imagining this Route 66 of the future where technology jumps out of the
computer screen and becomes part of us."
