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Slightly tangential question. I ride my electric uniwheel on the side walks but sidewalks in my city sometimes have huge potholes so I have to be constantly wat

• btrettel 8y ago
  As a cyclist, I'd be interested in such a technology too. Unfortunately, despite the lip service many US cities give to cyclists, when it comes to practical issues like road quality, cities tend to not care. Here in Austin there are quite a few bike lanes/cycletracks that are so bad that I refuse to use them. Usually it's a combination of poor visibility of cyclists in the lane (making being hit by turning drivers more likely) and poor road quality (e.g., chip seal resulting in some of these lanes basically being gravel). I've seen it claimed that the city regularly cleans out this gravely, but I can only recall a few times over the past 5 years when I thought the gravel might have been removed. I don't need machine learning to tell me to avoid these roads, but the potholes would be helpful.
• mindhash 8y ago
  Start by mounting a camera on your bike. Record for a couple of months and you would have good enough data to start experimenting with. Next step would be having your friends mount camera on their bikes.