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Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does
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Re: Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does
#12Someone in the UK did this years ago, but they painted rather cruder designs around the potholes. Naturally, the media dubbed them 'Wanksy'.
Re: Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does
#13I still want an iPhone app that uses the accelerometers to "geotag" bumps in the road.
You'd think a low-pass filter of a collective database of this data would quickly draw attention to the legit "bumps in the road"…
And you would think a city municipality could use this data (within a geofence, sorted by "popularity" and Newtons) to determine which potholes to tackle.
Re: Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does
#14I still want an iPhone app that uses the accelerometers to "geotag" bumps in the road. You'd think a low-pass filter of a collective database of this data would quickly draw attention to the legit "bumps in the road"… And you would think a city municipality could use this data (within a geofence, sorted by "popularity" and Newtons) to determine which potholes to tackle.
That's a good idea. Seriously. I think with a decent LLM tool you could get a POC going pretty quickly, and Code for America [0] is a pretty good resource for interfacing with governments on projects like that.
Re: Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does
#15My model of municipal maintenance is that a city's road maintenance workers have a long list of known potholes to fix which is triaged with some formula and dealt with day-by-day.
Spraypainting the pothole distorts the triage process and makes a pothole jump the queue, putting it ahead of more severe or older issues than it otherwise would have been.
It might not be zero sum, if it causes the agency to act with more haste to avoid embarrassment, but it seems like it could be close? Plus it probably takes more resources to clean up the spraypaint afterwards.
Most road maintenance crews probably aren't sitting around with abundant materials and machinery neglecting their duties, so I guess I just have some questions about what the real cost of this tactic is. What's giving.
Re: Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but not for painting it, yet https://cbsaustin.com/news/offbeat/greater-cincinnati-man-ch...
Do we know the outcome of the case?
Thankfully the case was taken to the Hamilton County Municipal Court, which I imagine was a much fairer trail than he would've received at Lockland's Mayor Court. He was cleared of all charges[0].
[0] https://local12.com/news/local/man-cleared-charges-spray-pai...
Re: Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does
#17I was wondering why potholes in my city in the UK have got outlines of dicks and balls sprayed around. Maybe this is why.
Re: Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does
#18I still want an iPhone app that uses the accelerometers to "geotag" bumps in the road. You'd think a low-pass filter of a collective database of this data would quickly draw attention to the legit "bumps in the road"… And you would think a city municipality could use this data (within a geofence, sorted by "popularity" and Newtons) to determine which potholes to tackle.
my bmw already does this somehow, always gives me a "rough road ahead" warning. I wonder if they use accelerometers
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#19I still want an iPhone app that uses the accelerometers to "geotag" bumps in the road. You'd think a low-pass filter of a collective database of this data would quickly draw attention to the legit "bumps in the road"… And you would think a city municipality could use this data (within a geofence, sorted by "popularity" and Newtons) to determine which potholes to tackle.
Waymo would be smart to offer this service to municipalities, especially those with supposed concerns about "safety".
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#20I look around and see work that needs doing all the time. Potholes, park maintenance, housing shortages, pollution. As long as we're have unsatisfied needs, there's work to be done. I also see unemployment.
What kind of system has work to be done but not enough jobs... it's a world where work is not focused on satisfying our needs but rather focused on maximizing profit. As long as we're choosing to make work about making someone else wealthy rather than satisfying all our needs, we'll never have enough jobs to get the work done.
Potholes are a visible manifestation of society saying it's more efficient to prioritize capital than care.