The new Android app "Street Bump," piloted by the City of Boston, uses smartphones' built-in accelerometer to gather data about the size of a pothole and its GPS location which is then sent on to a city database. The app, which should be available to the public this summer, makes the smartphone's accelerometer do the job of sensing potholes. If you're driving and you hit a pothole while the app is loaded, it sends the data onto the city, which can take the necessary steps to resolve the issue.
I'd love to see this used around the city of Newark for all the potholes I encounter on a daily basis!
This is pretty cool! Although there's no app, DelDOT allows users to "Report a Road Condition" (such as potholes) at http://www.deldot.gov/public.ejs?command=PublicReportRoadCondition
ReplyDeleteI used this to report two potholes on Delaware roads, both of which were filled within a couple of weeks.