I could feel the heat coming off it when I stood next to the repaved section. They didn't repave the parking area at the edge. Opened to traffic again, seems firm enough to drive on at 160⁰F.

Thermal image of a road that was just repaved
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[–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

Neat, you can also see where people's tyres have absorbed some of the heat.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Lol, no. Tires momentarily contacting hot asphalt while rolling on it will not significantly lower the surface temperature of hot asphalt. The road paving process produces T⁰ unevenness while spreading asphalt ... notably because of flow of asphal from the uneven T⁰ in truck loads waiting typically 1 hour before being dumped ... then carateristincs of flow in the paving machine ... and ... civil ing. ... whatever.
    Edit : i blocked one user below ( prenatal_confusion@feddit.org ) ; they couldn't understand anything technical that i was explaining and they wanted to spark some conflicts.

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