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GOOGLE HAS FILED A patent that would use cars to automatically detect potholes on roads.
The patent details a system which uses a car’s GPS system and a sensor fitted in the vehicle to monitor road quality. When a driver hits a pothole, the system notes the location and sends the information to a database.
The purpose of it would see numerous cars on the road combine this information to create a regularly updated database on road quality.
Such information would help improve the quality of services like Google Maps, allowing drivers to avoid poor quality roads when looking for a route, as well as its self-driving cars project, which it continues to test at its Mountain View headquarters.
This wouldn’t be the first time such an approach has been used to deal with potholes. In the UK, a group called Street Repairs run a site and app where the public can view and report problems with local roads before mapping them out.
Another mapping project in Boston called Street Bump uses a smartphone’s accelerometer to sense when a bump has been hit.
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Try to do this on roads here in mayo and they’ll need a bigger server!!
Stephen. To us its a pothole. To others, a crater.
Sure here in Ireland after about five complaints to the county council by each person that fu€ks up their car over one they eventually get filled with gravel then inevitably the rain comes washes all the gravel out and the pothole remains. Saw an article not so long ago think it was in the UK someone was going around to all the potholes around the housing estate and spraying paint around the potholes to make people aware of them. The cops were looking for that person for causing damage to public property! How about our property when we have to buy a new tire new alloy new bearings or suspension it comes out of our pockets after paying ludacris road tax smh. I hate that feeling when I feel the bang it makes me cringe because I know it has at least put the tracking out on my car
Punctuate
The guy in the UK was painting penises on the potholes.
They’re not going to try this here are they? Google can’t handle Irish roads, no one can!
Only right seeing I use google to track other holes
So if Google are tracking potholes which get reported into a central database, I’m assuming that they will release this data to local authorities to allow speedy fixing.
The politicians won’t like being side stepped like this !
Soon Google will be sponsoring hospitals and having a gps implanted in every newborn
The long term plan is to track your driving so that you can be carbon taxed depending on your mileage – Eventually you will be given a carbon credit so that the amount of driving you do will be restricted, and going over your limit will be prohibitive – all in the name of the false religion of saving the planet and the climate cult.
So that’s why they’re building new servers in Blanch, they’ll need all the storage they can get for our roads.
…so is this a tacit admission that their self-promoting, sorry, self-driving cars can’t handle non-perfect road surfaces?
anyway, according to this method you have to actually drive into the pothole to ‘register’ it. why do that if you value your tyres and suspension?
Enter Ashley Madison hackers….Franks car was recorded swerving potholes on Susan’s lane at 1AM wednesday..while her husband’s car was parked at Murphys pub
Like the County Council are actually going to fix them faster.
Soon Google will be sponsoring hospitals and having a gps implanted in every newborn
System overload here it would be.
Google servers would melt with the data from Ireland
So could our road tax money
This can only mean one thing. A few years down the line the government will pay a group of consultants a big sum to advise on creating a similiar database, a private company will then be set up to manage all of this and carry out repairs (because the councils aren’t doing a good enough job) for an unspecified fee. To register for this service you will have to provide your PPS number (so changes in car ownership can be tracked) and unless everybody in an area registers, no repair works will be carried out. Those who discover the potholes shall be rewarded with the bill for the administration and repair work.
I think its extraordinary innovative. If it helps people avoid bad roads, puts pressure on councils etc its good. Its shows how international companies are breaking down national boundaries too in dealing with problems.
Of course there are issues too but in reality which is better a forward thinking technology company that wants to make money or a backward thinking government that wants to control people. Its hard to see how a company like gogoe coukd create as many problems as a “popular” FF government did here for nearly 100 years ( boom bust economic mess, emigration, collusion with catholic church, housing crisis….)
Neither ideal of course…
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