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Just kinda depressing to see this get over 60 million hits on facebook.  

The idea is dumb on just so many levels.  The plastic they intent to use is too soft, too expensive, and tiling a road with it would just be unsafe.

This comes across a lot more in their FAQ, where they basically admit they dont even know if its possible or not.  Kinda makes you wonder why they described it as a 'revolution in road construction'!

Many thanks for all your support!

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Plastic Roadways BUSTED!

So they are going to make roads out of plastic.... they will last 3 times longer.... will handle cables and water... AND be made out of recycled material!! Kinda like solar roadways, just without the solar panels!.. and now it has some 60 million hits on facebook!

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Anonymous

The point that I don't get is: How will they build anything else than straight lines? Asphalt can be molded into any form you like (curves, roundabouts, ramps). If you want to account for all radii horizontally (curves), ramps (vertically), possible circle segments you need (the angles the curve spans) and connectors to connect them in all possible ways (like a small road that is connected into a bigger road at an angle in a curve), there is no end to the different tiles you need. Real roadwork doesn't work like SimCity, where everything is arranged in a perfect grid. And all those tiles you have to manufacture, store and get to the construction site on demand. The precision of measurment, planning and construction of the foundation so that the parts you ordered actually fit in the end is mindboggling. And if you want to get rid of at least part of that complexity by trimming the tiles on-site, its not easy construction anymore. Trimming the tiles will take much more time than molding asphalt.

Anonymous

Much better. Less over repetition than a lot of other recent videos.

Anonymous

Maybe they'll have straight and curvy bits like a toy train set.