Argonath RPG - A World of its own
Argonath RPG Community => Speakerbox => World and local news => Topic started by: Gimli on November 29, 2012, 11:11:19 pm
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A smart road design that features glow in the dark tarmac and illuminated weather indicators will be installed in the Netherlands from mid-2013.
"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," the designer behind the concept, Daan Roosegaarde, told Wired.co.uk. "I started imagining this Route 66 of the future where technology jumps out of the computer screen and becomes part of us."
The Smart Highway by Studio Roosegaarde and infrastructure management group Heijmans won Best Future Concept at the Dutch Design Awards, and has already gone beyond pure concept. The studio has developed a photo-luminising powder that will replace road markings -- it charges up in sunlight, giving it up to ten hours of glow-in-the-dark time come nightfall. "It's like the glow in the dark paint you and I had when we were children," designer Roosegaarde explained, "but we teamed up with a paint manufacture and pushed the development. Now, it's almost radioactive".
Special paint will also be used to paint markers like snowflakes across the road's surface -- when temperatures fall to a certain point, these images will become visible, indicating that the surface will likely be slippery. Roosegaarde says this technology has been around for years, on things like baby food -- the studio has just upscaled it.
The first few hundred metres of glow in the dark, weather-indicating road will be installed in the province of Brabant in mid-2013, followed by priority induction lanes for electric vehicles, interactive lights that switch on as cars pass and wind-powered lights within the next five years.
The idea is to not only use more sustainable methods of illuminating major roads, thus making them safer and more efficient, but to rethink the design of highways at the same time as we continue to rethink vehicle design. As Studio Roosegaarde sees it, connected cars and internal navigation systems linked up to the traffic news represent just one half of our future road management systems -- roads need to fill their end of the bargain and become intelligent, useful drivers of information too.
Read more at http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/30/smart-highway-glows-in-the-dark (http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/30/smart-highway-glows-in-the-dark)
This looks awesome.
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That is incredible. Truly a great idea other countries should follow through with. Talk about job creation and driver safety. The only loss I see here is money being spent on it, but that can be easily regenerated and put back into the economy through the workers getting paid to re-paint the roads.
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I must admit the displaying weather thing is pretty cool - but seems a somewhat pointless? For one, most drivers with common sense should be able to tell the weather simply by looking. But here, at least the matrix signs which are all over motorways and a lot of Dual Carriage A-Roads display information like this. And as for illuminating the road, cats eyes have been a thing for some 80 years.
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I must admit the displaying weather thing is pretty cool - but seems a somewhat pointless? For one, most drivers with common sense should be able to tell the weather simply by looking. But here, at least the matrix signs which are all over motorways and a lot of Dual Carriage A-Roads display information like this. And as for illuminating the road, cats eyes have been a thing for some 80 years.
Well not all weather conditions will be obvious right away. Situations, such as black ice, can't even be seen but can still cause you to crash easily.
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It's like those glow sticks just with paint.. :D
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This is niice :D
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It's an interesting idea.
Sounds good to me!
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Retarded, the government is making cuts everywhere, leaving people hungry and making things more expensive to save money, yet they invest in things like this.
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Interesting idea..
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While other countries get glowing highways, we still struggle to get some highways
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Retarded, the government is making cuts everywhere, leaving people hungry and making things more expensive to save money, yet they invest in things like this.
Don't really see people having no money to eat, I mean sure there is, but I don't think the cuts are that big.
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Nice roads :D
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Even if problems such as lack of food and highways exist in other parts of the world, advances have to be made somewhere. Keep in mind that these will become the standard in the future.
The development of the next generation should not be held back simply because of the inability to solve current problems. For all we know, one of the solutions might be among the next batch of breakthroughs.
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You know there is such thing as 'cats eyes' which are kind of like this, but in small blocks spaced apart, mainly on dangerous roads such as those in the British country side which have no lighting at all, kinda the same just with paint, and this paint this does look alot better still.
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Retarded, the government is making cuts everywhere, leaving people hungry and making things more expensive to save money, yet they invest in things like this.
The people thats hungry should go work for their money.
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Well not all weather conditions will be obvious right away. Situations, such as black ice, can't even be seen but can still cause you to crash easily.
the matrix signs which are all over motorways and a lot of Dual Carriage A-Roads display information like this.
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(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/03/article-2081141-0F53E91300000578-15_634x365.jpg)
I don't see the need for gimmicks when we have something that works already.
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(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/03/article-2081141-0F53E91300000578-15_634x365.jpg)
I don't see the need for gimmicks when we have something that works already.
Theres no need for these lines on motorways, since all of the motorways have lights every 10 meters or so. :poke:
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Reflectors. What about during the day? Do you know that the lines mean different things, depending on their size and pattern?
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Reflectors. What about during the day? Do you know that the lines mean different things, depending on their size and pattern?
ofc the normal white lines are needed, just not the glow in the dark ones on motorways that are well lit. :poke:
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The people thats hungry should go work for their money.
Bhahaha what a retarded remark.
Families with 2 incomes can't even pay their bills and get out of debts.
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The people thats hungry should go work for their money.
Not everyone can. People are willing to work, but can't find jobs.
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The people thats hungry should go work for their money.
Real life doesn't work like Argonath, there aren't unlimited vacancies available in jobs, and you're kind of dependent on the government to provide you with them (Not to mention being a drug dealer isn't considered that cool, or that easy)
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ofc the normal white lines are needed, just not the glow in the dark ones on motorways that are well lit. :poke:
I think, if done correctly, they would replace those white lines so they are normal white in the day, and glow at night.
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The people thats hungry should go work for their money.
I guess you are a teenage boy who is living in the comfort of his home, eating off your parents' money and currently free of any situation where you are hard-pressed to find food.
Some people will still be unable to fully provide for their families, no matter how hard they work.
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I guess you are a teenage boy who is living in the comfort of his home, eating off your parents' money and currently free of any situation where you are hard-pressed to find food.
Some people will still be unable to fully provide for their families, no matter how hard they work.
There is no need to provoke him.
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I guess you are a teenage boy who is living in the comfort of his home, eating off your parents' money and currently free of any situation where you are hard-pressed to find food.
Some people will still be unable to fully provide for their families, no matter how hard they work.
bravo!
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There is no need to provoke him.
Control your paranoia. It is no provocation; the second statement is a fact. Look around you and you will see plenty of people who cannot fully provide, no matter how much they work.
No one who has ever had to stretch themselves thin in order to make ends meet (and get food) would make such remarks so apathetic to the plight of the underprivileged. While I do not condone a lifestyle of complete dependence on kind donations and acts of charity for your living without exerting any sincere effort to improve your situation, the scenario that I pointed out (teens living with their parents and being spoon-fed) is indeed a common one.
Nonetheless, that does not give him a license to sit in an ivory tower and simply tell the poor to go find a job; please tell me more about how easy it is to do so.
Welcome to the real world.
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Control your paranoia. It is no provocation; the second statement is a fact. Look around you and you will see plenty of people who cannot fully provide, no matter how much they work.
No one who has ever had to stretch themselves thin in order to make ends meet (and get food) would make such remarks so apathetic to the plight of the underprivileged. While I do not condone a lifestyle of complete dependence on kind donations and acts of charity for your living without exerting any sincere effort to improve your situation, the scenario that I pointed out (teens living with their parents and being spoon-fed) is indeed a common one.
Nonetheless, that does not give him a license to sit in an ivory tower and simply tell the poor to go find a job; please tell me more about how easy it is to do so.
Welcome to the real world.
Fact or not, presenting it in such a way meant to provoke a player based on differing points of view is still provocative. You can make your point without the intention of doing such to a player.
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Do people really have to moan at someone over a small opinion which may or may not be a fact, I mean honestly it's like Argonath's got baby sitters making sure the forums always stay child rated, the internet isn't meant for kids and if someone can't handle an opinion, they simply shouldn't be on the internet. :poke:
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Do people really have to moan at someone over a small opinion which may or may not be a fact, I mean honestly it's like Argonath's got baby sitters making sure the forums always stay child rated, the internet isn't meant for kids and if someone can't handle an opinion, they simply shouldn't be on the internet. :poke:
Kinda agree. So go back talking about white lines :D
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JDC. Will you marry me?
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JDC. Will you marry me?
Abolish the decree banning polygamy and we're good to go. Like anyone followed it anyway. :rules:
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Abolish the decree banning polygamy and we're good to go. Like anyone followed it anyway. :rules:
Ok done.
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Original post in mind, would like to see this in real life. I guess we may have to reserve our opinions before seeing it in action. Obvious thing to say would be that it's hardly essential/not a necessity, but if it's a worthwhile investment for their government, fair enough.
It's a cool concept.