You may get a kick out of this BBC story on the intersection of art and engineering.
“Artist Daan Roosegaarde has teamed up with Hans Goris, a manager at a Dutch civil engineering firm with hopes of reinventing highways all over the world.
“They are working on designs that will change with the weather — telling drivers if it’s icy or wet by using high-tech paint that lights up in different temperatures.
“Another of their ideas is to create a road that charges up electric cars as they drive along it.
“Daan Roosegarde said: ‘I was completely amazed that we somehow spend billions on the design of cars but somehow the roads … are still stuck in the Middle Ages.’
“In the past he has designed a dance floor with built-in disco lights powered by dancers’ foot movements.
“They plan to trial their specially designed glow-in-the-dark paint on a strip of road at Brabant, which is near the Dutch border with Belgium, later this year.”
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Photo of a glow-in-the-dark road: Roosegarde
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