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UK starts early trials of World's first pothole preventing robot (www.youtube.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Driverless vehicle that uses sensors to measure road surface quality and repair small cracks to stop them turning into potholes and hopefully decreasing the cost of road maintenance while improving average surface quality.

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[–] lemmus 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Or just pay humans a living wage to do it today, no trial required.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago (1 children)

tarmacking is a horrible job especially at night, personally I'd rather reduce the cost of infrastructure maintenance using automation and then pay people a living wage to do nicer jobs.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Bets on this actually reducing the cost of maintenance? I’d hazard a guess that it will cost more, fix less, and result in fewer local jobs. But the VC-backed overseas startup CEO will profit, so that’s something I suppose.

[–] themurphy 11 points 9 months ago

It's a fair guess, but my guess is the opposite. Prevention is far cheaper than repairing.

And technological advances almost always comes out on top in terms of costs in the long run.

And this is saving money for the government, not some CEO.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Always. Follow. The money.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Looking at the decline around me, I doubt my local council has any money to employ said people. Our roads are full of potholes. Had a blowout on one not so long ago.

If the government can't get more money coming in to councils, this will have to do.

[–] beefontoast 2 points 9 months ago

They said there is a skills shortage in the video. They can not find people to take the jobs.