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.
Comment on UK starts early trials of World's first pothole preventing robot
lemmus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Or just pay humans a living wage to do it today, no trial required.
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
beefontoast@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They said there is a skills shortage in the video. They can not find people to take the jobs.
RoboGroMo@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
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.
Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
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@lemmy.world 8 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.