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Motion-Activated Pothole Sensors ... In Your Phone
Boston hopes its driver-operated Street Bump app will grow sensitive enough to detect cracks in the pavement before they become gravel-spewing craters.
Boston is getting serious about attacking potholes. How serious? This serious:
This Terminator-vision-looking readout is a data capture from Boston's new pothole-snitching app, Street Bump. Running on an Android platform, the program is designed to make reporting the city's legion of asphalt abscesses as easy as turning on your phone. Just don't put that phone in your pocket while the app is running, or it could register the movement as a pothole, too.