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Matt Marlowe's avatar

Maybe this is an issue that AI would be able to deal with, but I can imagine that the scale of the road network and the amount of data that would need to be collected for each section of the road (this second bit is more significant I can imagine) that it would not be feasible to scale it like that

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pozorvlak's avatar

I think James is gesturing towards this idea - the data collected from the automatic pothole cameras could be used to train predictive models of road decay.

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Paul Bivand's avatar

You'd probably need those automated traffic counters they have already. Remember, the Fourth Power Rule applies - the (axle) weight of traffic is the crucial factor. Taxing vehicles on that could fund the entire system (using the 4th power rule).

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