Comment on UK starts early trials of World's first pothole preventing robot
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
Local government funding has been cut to the bone, and roads, paths, community centres, libraries, council housing, etc has been paying the price.
Assuming it works, this is still a cool project though.
QuantumBamboo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 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.