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INTELLIGENT ROADS

The Yorkshire Dales is a magical place, and I’ve spent a great deal of time driving up and
down the A1 motorway to get there. When you travel up the ancient North Road, it’s
apparent just how little it has changed in comparison to everything else.
One person who agrees is Daan Roosegaarde, the owner of Studio Roosegaarde, a social
design lab. 5.1. _____ During the day the unique substance absorbs sunlight and then glows
for 10 hours, so they are visible to drivers at night.
The innovative enterprise is also pioneering a temperature-sensitive paint. Roosegaarde
proposes to use it to cover dangerous stretches of road with giant images of snowflakes
which will glow in sub-zero weather and thus warn drivers of icy conditions. 5.2. _____
Drivers are less likely to ignore the danger when they are informed of it twice.
Another idea is to equip roads with sensors for all sorts of things, like temperature, water, or
ice on the road and of course, vehicle speed. 5.3. _____ After all, even though some people
don’t believe it, the move to autonomous vehicles seems unstoppable.
Imagine having road systems designed from the ground up with intelligent materials and
built-in computers. 5.4. _____ Something similar to this is being introduced in South Korea,
where the IT company, Cisco, uses real-time information, like the current weather,
to optimise traffic lights in a city called New Songdo.
A system like this would make it a lot easier to travel in Yorkshire. 5.5. _____ By letting this
happen, we are putting enormous power in the hands of those in charge. Just as we have to
trust Internet service providers not to feed all our data to the government, so we’d have to
trust road service providers not to send us on long detours. The road to the future might not
be so clear after all.

 

Na podstawie: Focus, October 2013

 

A. However, I’m uneasy about the development of an intelligent road system for the same
reasons I am concerned about the Internet having changed from a relatively simple way
to communicate to a network that manages every aspect of our lives.

B. Nowadays, many cars have systems which already provide this information, but slippery
roads are so hazardous that the warning needs to be reinforced.

C. The company has developed a light-producing paint, which can be used on road surfaces
to indicate, for example, the edges of roads, sharp bends ahead and upcoming junctions.

D. Therefore, later this year, Heijmans, a Dutch road-building company, will build a 150-mile
demonstration road with glowing markings as replacements for streetlights.

E. They would be energy efficient and safe, with each system managed by specialised “road
service providers”, the transport equivalent of Internet service providers.

F. The data collected can be used to assist drivers through on-board information systems,
and in the future it could also be used to guide self-driving cars.