Phonesto cure pot holes

» Researchers at the University of Birmingham have come up with a cunning plan to use riders’ and drivers’ phones to assess how bad potholes are. All modern smartphones have built-in three-axis accelerometers and gps, which the scientists say could monitor road surface conditions via an a pp, which could then help councils prioritise maintenance work. coauthor Dr. Michael Burrow said: ‘The most accurate automated methods of assessing road roughness is to use vehicles fitted with lasers, but that can be costly. we can fore see an approach where the condition of road networks is assessed using crowd sourced data from mobile devices.’ The most accurate road roughness data will of course come from vehicles with agonising suspension such as hardtail choppers and kaw as akizxr 750h 1s, though the scientists disappointingly did not suggest these should be made mandatory.