If there was an all-star team of global positioning system (GPS) devices, reflector tacks would be in the starting lineup. They're the fingernail-size thumbtacks covered with reflective sticky-dots.

It wasn't that long ago, especially in the Midwest, that rare was the highway that relied on raised pavement markers to improve safety. But as research showed the impact raised markers can have on ...

3D scanners rely on being able to identify physical features of an object, and line up what it saw a moment ago with what it sees now in order to build a 3D model. However, not every object is as ...

Chances are, most of us don't pay much attention to the raised pavement reflectors lining the streets during our daily commutes, except maybe as a bumpy wake-up call that we're starting to drift into ...

More than 1.3 million safety devices installed across the state -- the small reflectors which illuminate the road in the dark and when it rains -- are designed to keep motorists safe, but some of them ...