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

submitted 7 months ago by RoboGroMo to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Looking at the decline around me, I doubt my local council has any money to employ said people. Our roads are full of potholes. Had a blowout on one not so long ago.

If the government can't get more money coming in to councils, this will have to do.

[–] beefontoast@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

They said there is a skills shortage in the video. They can not find people to take the jobs.