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> > an unnamed mayor asked the Marine Corps to use a drone to find potholes in the mayor's city Maybe he's trying to figure out if he can use a DHS grant to bu
by mseebach 11y ago
> > an unnamed mayor asked the Marine Corps to use a drone to find potholes in the mayor's city
Maybe he's trying to figure out if he can use a DHS grant to buy "OMG TERRORISM" drones, that just happens to look for potholes whenever it has a few minutes off between terror attacks?
EDIT: On second thought, is finding the holes really the bottleneck in The War on Potholes? And if so, isn't this better fixed with an answering machine, and/or a $5000 Rails app?
- rtkwe 11y agoThe app is cheap getting people to use it is expensive.
- mseebach 11y agoIs it really hard to get people to complain about potholes, if complaining is actually going to get them filled in? And if you're not going to fill them in, then why care where they are?
- Ntrails 11y agoIt's easy to get people to complain. The drone is probably able to produce far better data assuming the main problem is pothole triage (ie you're only going to fix ~30%, of which around half will be patched quickly and the other half properly re-tarmacked. Which ones and in which order?)