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Title: Glow in the dark paint to replace cats eyes?
Post by: Rods2 on 15 April 2014, 22:45:54

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2604997/Now-thats-digital-highway-Glow-dark-paint-replaces-cats-eyes-used-build-INTERACTIVE-roads.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2604997/Now-thats-digital-highway-Glow-dark-paint-replaces-cats-eyes-used-build-INTERACTIVE-roads.html)

Title: Re: Glow in the dark paint to replace cats eyes?
Post by: tigers_gonads on 15 April 2014, 23:08:19

Great idea until the paint gets covered in oil and road grime  :-\

Title: Re: Glow in the dark paint to replace cats eyes?
Post by: 05omegav6 on 15 April 2014, 23:10:08

They've been using reflective paint and active catseyes hereaboots for years...

Title: Re: Glow in the dark paint to replace cats eyes?
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 16 April 2014, 08:43:35

Quote from: tigers_gonads on 15 April 2014, 23:08:19

Great idea until the paint gets covered in oil and road grime  :-\

and also after snow :-\    cats eyes are always better..  it helped me to find where the road is in many snowy conditions.. unless snow is meter deep..

Title: Re: Glow in the dark paint to replace cats eyes?
Post by: aaronjb on 16 April 2014, 15:24:16

Quote from: Taxi Al on 15 April 2014, 23:10:08

They've been using reflective paint and active catseyes hereaboots for years...

The active catseyes are neat; there's a stretch (I think, anyway) on the M40 not long before the A404 junction when you're heading south that makes me smile at night if it's quiet..

.. because looking in the rear view mirror and seeing them snake off into the distance all lit up is just like being in a video game  :-[ :-[ ;D

Title: Re: Glow in the dark paint to replace cats eyes?
Post by: tunnie on 16 April 2014, 15:27:24

Quote from: aaronjb on 16 April 2014, 15:24:16

Quote from: Taxi Al on 15 April 2014, 23:10:08

They've been using reflective paint and active catseyes hereaboots for years...

The active catseyes are neat; there's a stretch (I think, anyway) on the M40 not long before the A404 junction when you're heading south that makes me smile at night if it's quiet..

.. because looking in the rear view mirror and seeing them snake off into the distance all lit up is just like being in a video game  :-[ :-[ ;D

Yup, at the cutting for the M40. It's funky at night, look behind if it's empty looks like a runway.

Title: Re: Glow in the dark paint to replace cats eyes?
Post by: ronnyd on 16 April 2014, 22:58:21

There were trials of  different types of catseyes on the A11 between 4 Went Ways roundabout and A14 some time
ago when i was coming back from Harlow. Some of them looked very good.

Title: Re: Glow in the dark paint to replace cats eyes?
Post by: 05omegav6 on 17 April 2014, 00:45:54

There must be summat about that stretch of the A11, north bound at the end of the Newmarket bypass iirc, there always used to be a road marking trial of some sort going on, in particular about 1/4 mile of rumble strips in the left hand lane, where it used to flood in heavy rain...