Million dollar idea

interesting idea but who decides what qualifies for a particular rating? would the rating be for the road in general or specific stretches?


I am imagining this is technology based such as radar, laser, accelerometer, etc and other stuff I have no idea about. The more and severe the imperfections in the road the lower the rating. The technology exists but not implemented yet fully on automobiles except maybe Teslas. Imagine thousands of cars that travel the roads daily just like how Google gathers information on live traffic time but instead it gathers information on the quality of the road. Now imagine instead of turning on your live traffic you can switch to see how rough the road is, maybe shade the road kind of like the weather radar shades the storms. That would tell you everything about the road even if it's just a stretch a few hundred feet long assuming you zoom in on the map.

I'm not always concerned about how rough road is except when I am towing. A bad road really magnifies the imperfections in the road and that's when I would find it really handy.

Dan

All you need is to know the projected 1-3 yr resurfacing projects of the state road department. Not what is currently being worked on, that is already available on the web in most states, but what is programmed for future budget years.

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?

They can't even keep up with changes on major interstates so I don't see how they could keep up with road conditions.

Hell it would tell ya to take a plane. They are all in sad shape.
Please forward me my million

I thought the same thing driving up sucky I77 last month.

The GPS was warning me of slow traffic, wrecks and I’m thinking “I sure wish it could tell me where smooth roads are”.

Our roads are bad.

That would be nice.It might also be a wake up call if people are avoiding your state because the roads suck.