Letter: Can AI really help us in our ongoing pothole problems?

A letter this week looks at the ongoing issue of potholes in the area.A letter this week looks at the ongoing issue of potholes in the area.
A letter this week looks at the ongoing issue of potholes in the area.
Last week, the Prime Minister took to a platform to tell us how so-called artificial intelligence (AI) can grow productivity in the arena of filling potholes in our roads, by evaluating (more quietly spoken) camera images.

What this Labour government hasn't yet understood is that true productivity in this field is measured by the potholes getting filled.

Question: Where are the camera images going to come from?

Question: Does the PM not appreciate that local highway authorities, up and down the UK, just like Derbyshire, already have public Internet facilities through which they are advised (bombarded) with the precise location and severity of potholes.

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FixMyStreet is also freely available, where local authorities don't offer this.

I have used these extensively, with great effect for many years. Derbyshire CC responds remarkably quickly, in my recent experience.

But then, Westminster inhabitants have access to the Underground. We must expect them to be relatively ignorant of the rural roads condition and relative absence of public-serving cameras.

Of greater concern is their demonstrated ignorance about how to grow the economy. But based on the forgoing, that's not a surprise.

David Blackwell

Chesterfield

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