Solar Roadways Provide A Glimpse Of The Future

Imagine a future in which all the roads are made from "electric glass" and would have the ability to improve road vision at night, power to homes and business in the day, and melt snow and ice during inclement weather,

Each Solar Road Panel features a weatherproof, translucent road surface layer, an electronics layer containing LEDs and solar cells, and a base plate layer that distributes power to homes and businesses connected to the roadway. In addition to generating power, the road panels have one big advantage over traditional asphalt: they are self-heating, which means snow and ice don't accumulate on top of the road.

While this probably won't be a future we see for quite sometime, for those of us who live in colder climates the self-heating part is pretty sweet, I'm curious how traction with traditional tires would be in wet conditions..

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