TU Delft Student Stories - CEG - Keep on Track: Testing the Lines

It’s a drizzly late afternoon and you’re driving home. The rain stops and as you negotiate the next bend the rays of the setting sun hit you straight in the eyes. Dazzled, you try to keep the car from veering off but it’s not easy. Suddenly you feel the car’s lane-keeping system kicking in. Phew, that was close..
The weather and other factors can have a dramatic impact on the visibility of road markings and we can’t always rely on our cars to help us out of a scrape. For his master thesis, Civil Engineering master student Mathijs den Otter decided to focus on a method to test the visibility of road markings affected by external influences such as rain and low sun. And where better to do it than on the race track?
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