Yes, AI really can be used to tackle potholes

Yes, AI really can be used to tackle potholes - it's already happening.

Surrey County Council is using technology from a company called Route Reports .

As they drive along, the AI chip analyses the camera images to look for pothole, cracks in the road, signage and vegetation problems.

If it spots anything, it automatically flags up the problem and creates an incident report.

Route Reports ’ cameras take a photo every ten meters while driving along, in addition to the AI -identified pothole photos.

This means councils can passively build up their own Google Streetview -style map of their local area but instead of updating once every few years , it is instead updated every few days .

As a result, the platform can save time on other council tasks too.

Images used for navigation were shockingly low resolution think of the order of 320x240.

This is because processing was optimised for speed, as real time matters when you're navigating a car.

Another reason for the hefty Nvidia chip is because it does all of the privacy-conscious face blurring locally, before sending the images to the council.