Glow-in-the-dark roads make debut in Netherlands

Light-absorbing glow-in-the-dark road markings have replaced streetlights on a 500m stretch of highway in the Netherlands.
Studio Roosegaarde promised us the design back in 2012, and after cutting through rather a lot of government red tape we can finally see the finished product.


One Netherlands news report said, "It looks like you are driving through a fairytale," which pretty much sums up this extraordinary project. The design studio like to bring technology and design to the real world, with practical and beautiful results.





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The Vikings are always a step ahead....always

 

This guy from Holland was telling me they have cameras that take pics of your car at one point, then another pick at a measured distance. They use this to calculate your avg speed between the 2 points and can send you a ticket if it's over the speed limit I was kind of disappointed to hear that

 

When I was in Belgium they had that shit.

They paint markers on the autoroute to judge distance.

Bastards.

 

i'm thinking that i would have enjoyed trying to drive down these roads while on lsd etc.

it's an interesting idea.

 

it would be nice if magic shrooms glowed like that. it would make finding them much easier.

 

I come from the land of Ice and Snow!!!!!

 

So Dave has to stay out of the Netherlands?

 

i hope this saves GP2's life

 

I dig it.

 

I knew that "Rad Racer" was a portal into the future even then.