Million dollar idea
This idea is inspired by the awful road thread and my experience this weekend coming home from a trip. Imagine opening up Google maps on your smartphone and when you are planning a route for a tr...
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Hammerboy wrote:
This idea is inspired by the awful road thread and my experience this weekend coming home from a trip.
Imagine opening up Google maps on your smartphone and when you are planning a route for a trip in unfamiliar areas you can toggle what minimum road condition you want on a scale of 1-5. Kind of like how you can toggle to avoid highways or toll roads. Or maybe even color code the route on the map based on condition. The technology may not be there yet to make this work as all the information would have to be crowd sourced currently or maybe in the future when smart self driving cars are commonplace they can send live info with their sensors kind of like live traffic we have today. This would also be beneficial in the wintertime for if roads are slick or not.
My first choice would be for the roads to be repaired and maintained as they should but I'm not counting on that.
Dan
interesting idea but who decides what qualifies for a particular rating? would the rating be for the road in general or specific stretches?
