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

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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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[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

I was just thinking about something like this for fixing road cracks, it could work like a 3D printer with a scanner on the front to follow the crack.

As usual, my great ideas are about half a decade too late.

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