Should we cover all our roads with solar panels? That’s the $64,000 question or more like the $56,000,000,000,000. This stuff is pretty expensive upfront but just think of the benefits:

* with embedded led lights – road lane markings and signs built right into the roadway
* with embedded heat element – never plow or shovel again
* road repairs as easy as removing one panel
* electricity shuttled right to your doorstep
* electric cars recharge while parked in any parking area

Part of this technology incorporates a panel, say at a crosswalk, that senses you’re standing on it and flashes an appropriate message. Oy, I can see problems with this like maybe some wisenheimer hackers with their very limited vocabularies telling you where to get off or worse yet (shudder) broadcasting your weight to the world, etc.

What do you think?

* on track?
* one for the road?
* test drive?
* the end of the road?
* the road to hell is paved with good intentions?