I still look at the technique with distrust, because I would like to see what will happen to that road and paving stones in a couple of years. Although our valiant builders, even on the opening day of the road, manage to crap themselves. But if it justifies itself, I applaud standing, delighted.

I remember watching Mega Machines on History Channel and they had a machine they used in California that drove down 1 highway lane and stripped the old pavement, recycled it, and laid it back down and rolled it as it drove. They said it was used for heavily congested highways that are impossible to shut down parts to do it a traditional way.

The first video isn't paving. It's tar and rocks. The beauty of it is, right after it's first installed, it sticks to your wheels and tires and gets thrown all over the side of your vehicle, not to mention the chips in your paint from all the rocks that get thrown from passing vehicles. Then, each year after, when summer hits, the blazing sun reactivates the tar so that it AGAIN gets thrown all over your vehicle. It's the gift that keeps on giving. Where I live they do this continually and everyone dreads it. It's a cheap way to make some people think the roads are being maintained when, really, they're not.

In my town the wonderful city council hires the lowest bid independent contractor to re-pave the asphalt with 1/2” of material, looks awesome! Then 6 months later it rains and half the road washes off now making it worse. Low bidders always use thin layers that will fail later, the good guys probably seem like jerks charging double the price for a road that lasts 10x as long.