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UK starts early trials of World's first pothole preventing robot (www.youtube.com)

submitted 8 months ago by RoboGroMo@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] RoboGroMo@slrpnk.net 43 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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 11 points 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.

[–] tutus@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 8 months ago

Always. Follow. The money.