Good News Notes: “A pair of local inventors have developed robotic technology they say can make painting roads safer, faster and less expensive. Former Cleveland Heights auto shop owner Sam Bell and Case Western Reserve University professor Wyatt Newman formed RoadPrintz, Inc. and invented the system. They equipped a proof-of-concept truck with a computer-controlled robotic…
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Los Angeles is testing ‘plastic asphalt’
Good News Notes: “A street in downtown L.A. will soon be repaved, but the road won’t be quite the standard asphalt road we’re used to. Instead, it will be covered with a material made, in part, from recycled plastic bottles.” “The plastic is a key in a new process for street paving: For the first…