{"id":839,"date":"2015-09-10T13:28:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T11:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/escapelab.net\/?p=839"},"modified":"2015-09-10T13:38:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T11:38:21","slug":"the-roads-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"The Roads Of The Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VhZxh7R4cpY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHere&#39;s a glimpse into the future: high maintenance, expensive concrete roads and parking lots turned into glossy solar surfaces, fueling enough energy from the sun to power nearby communities and the electric vehicles above them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis is the Smart Highway, a collaboration between Studio Roosegaarde and Dutch construction company Heijmans that introduces a prototype for what could eventually become the road of tomorrow.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tElectric cars seem like the perfect solution to reducing smog and our dependence on oil, except for one thing: Batteries just aren&#39;t all that great.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhile fast-charging systems like Tesla&#39;s Supercharger network can help, Daan Roosegaarde of Studio Roosegaarde in the Netherlands is looking at the problem from a different angle. Why are we focusing on the vehicles and not the roads themselves? After all, roadways are ubiquitous, and have the potential to be transformed into smarter, responsive interfaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#39;s a glimpse into the future: high maintenance, expensive concrete roads and parking lots turned into glossy solar surfaces, fueling enough energy from the sun to power nearby&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lecad.arch.uth.gr\/escapelab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}