The safety gains by using 3M’s highly reflective road tapes and ceramic bead “elements” used in road paint are backed up by third-party studies, and inside an interactive theater on 3M’s ...

He flips that focus with inventions for roads—paint that changes color when the temperature drops, lanes that charge the electric cars driving on them, and reflective lines powered by urban ...

whereas they struggled to detect the traditional paint. The team believes that their highly reflective material could enhance road safety by increasing the visibility of dark objects for ...