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UK starts early trials of World's first pothole preventing robot (www.youtube.com)
submitted 10 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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[–] themurphy 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

This guy acting like US invented cars and have divine knowledge from this experience.

Dude, Europe got 10x better public transport and are far less car dependent than the US.

Our cities are too old to be build with cars in mind.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I think they're saying "America is a bad example, please don't follow us"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Our cities are too old to be build with cars in mind.

Vast parts of the cities I lived in were completely bulldozed to accommodate cars.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

And yet you guys are attempting to follow in our footsteps with new construction. Also the US was also too old to be built with cars in mind, we bulldozed our cities for the car (ಥ_ʖಥ)