I 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.

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xnx 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Waymo would be smart to offer this service to municipalities, especially those with supposed concerns about "safety".

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sss111 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

my bmw already does this somehow, always gives me a "rough road ahead" warning. I wonder if they use accelerometers

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lenerdenator 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

[0] https://codeforamerica.org/

	▲	JKCalhoun 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I could knock it out—it's adoption that is the issue. It's only useful at scale. As someone else pointed out, Waymo (or Waze, or Google Maps, or Apple Maps) ought to adopt this as an opt-in feature. You would get rich pot-hole data fast.