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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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[โ€“] TheGrandNagus 44 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The problem with potholes and road damage in the UK isn't to do with not knowing where potholes are, it's to do with councils having their central government funding taken away (cough 14 years of Tory rule cough)

Local government funding has been cut to the bone, and roads, paths, community centres, libraries, council housing, homeless shelters, etc have all been paying the price.

Assuming it works, this is still a cool project though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Totally agree! This kind of technology will pay divends I'm sure in the long term as it matures, but as with all technological development it's not likely to be a scalable, cost effective solution. For now, a government that understands the importance of infrastructure maintenance would do wonders.