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Whether you’re on a bike or in a car, potholes are a problem. Maintenance is costly and labor intensive, but authorities in the UK have successfully tested an autonomous machine designed to detect and seal surface cracks that can grow into potholes – w… Continue reading Fully autonomous street crawlers could make potholes thing of the past
Humans are not creatures well suited to cold environments. Without a large amount of effort to provide clothing, homes, and food to areas with substantial winters, very few of us …read more Continue reading Concrete Clears its Own Snow
Incorporating a phase-change material into concrete, researchers have created a self-heating material that can melt snow and ice for up to 10 hours without using salt or shovels. The novel material could reduce the need for plowing and salting and help… Continue reading Phase-change concrete melts snow and ice without salt or shovels
While stormwater runoff pollutants in general aren’t great for aquatic animals, chemicals from tire particles are particularly harmful to salmon. A recent study now shows that permeable pavements could keep most of those toxins from ever reaching the f… Continue reading Permeable pavement roads may save salmon from tire particle toxins
In 2022, England spent £1.2 billion (about US$1.5 billion) repairing potholes. That’s no insignificant sum of money – and lord knows what they’ve cost the country as a result of an estimated 5,000 pothole-related accident injuries that have happened si… Continue reading Inside the UK project that hopes to put an end to potholes
If you’ve ever lived somewhere it gets properly cold, you’ll know that winter’s icy grasp brings the inevitable challenge of keeping roadways safe. While road salt and gritting have long …read more Continue reading Road Salt? Bah! New Roadway Material Promises A Better Solution to Snow And Ice
Ice on roads isn’t a good thing, but neither are the eco-unfriendly chloride-based salts used to melt it. Scientists have developed a greener and more effective alternative, however, that could be mixed right into the asphalt and remain active for year… Continue reading Asphalt additive could continuously keep roads ice-free
Switzerland’s BMC has been manufacturing elite-level performance bikes since the 1980s, and has now announced the launch of a top-of-the-range Class 3 pedal-assist endurance road bike called the Roadmachine 01 AMP X.Continue ReadingCategory: Bicycles, … Continue reading Premium BMC ebike road warrior can hit the gravel trail too
Roads always seem to be in need of repair, but changing up the recipe could help them last longer. Researchers in Australia have now shown yet another advantage of adding rubber from old tires to asphalt – extra Sun protection that could help roads las… Continue reading Recycled tires make for roads that last twice as long in hot sunshine
We first got wind of Ducati’s ebike aspirations in 2018 with the EICMA debut of an electric pedal-assist mountain bike developed in collaboration with Thok Ebikes. More ebikes have followed since, including a trekking road bike and a bunch of folding m… Continue reading Ducati adds power to the pedal with first racing ebike