Potholes are not a joke . They get in your way , damage your car and make you spill a Big Gulp ’s Charles Frederick Worth of Grape Fanta on your already - dingy upholstered seats . But fresh enquiry shows that Google Street View may be all municipalities need tocorrect the trouble .
The U.S. has about 4 million mile of road where potholes can make , and almost all of it has been imaged by Google satellite and Street View cars . To utilize this resourcefulness , researchers at the University of Maryland , College Park developed a software that permit volunteers with virtually no breeding to run down through the streets in a neighborhood , mark pothole as they go . The field crowd sourced from Amazon ’s Mechanical Turk avail , and used a wide-eyed training video to orient participants .
The syllabus can turn the pothole data into detail , highlighted maps so road crew be intimate where to go . The Department of Transportation has state involvement in the research , and future versions may not rely on military volunteer at all , if computer algorithms can be used to “ see ” potholes with even more accuracy . Here ’s hop the route to far-flung integration is a well - paved one . [ New Scientist ]
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