Signal to noise ratio
They could get rather a lot of 'pot hole' reports if it's taken where vehicles with a Landrover badge are supposed to be driven...
Future Range Rovers will report pot-holes directly to councils
Jaguar Land Rover is building an experimental Range Rover which can automatically spot and report potholes. The system is akin to one Volvo and Ericsson have been working on to spot icy patches on roads. The Jaguar Land Rover system uses the MagneRide suspension already offered on the Evoque and Discovery Sport. It records …
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Thursday 11th June 2015 16:49 GMT Voland's right hand
Re: Signal to noise ratio
It'll probably have to suffer that indignity for a while, but even range-rovers sometimes get to enjoy themselves when they reach retirement age
That is not a RangeRover.
That is a DeRangeRover. I regularly see one in my local supermarket parking lot with mud up to the roof and exactly that spelling on the badge (with all the letters at different angles). An original MK1 if memory serves me right too.
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Thursday 11th June 2015 10:55 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Signal to noise ratio
Or they are smart enough to know they NEED 4x4 to survive the pot-holes...
My drive to town is an obstacle course where I have to drive over the entire road (both sides) to avoid pot holes and drops in the road! When a car is oncoming the sensible slow right down to a crawl..
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Thursday 11th June 2015 12:08 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Signal to noise ratio
"It's almost as if drivers of the chosen vehicles are not smart enough, or are too arrogant, to drive around potholes."
You don't always have a choice. The road I take to work is liberally strewn with potholes many of which you can only avoid by driving on the "wrong" side of the road - not easy when faced with an Artic filling that side and part of your side of the road as well.
And no, I don't have a 4x4 just an ordinay saloon.
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Thursday 11th June 2015 10:27 GMT Pen-y-gors
Re: What a great idea
Obviously they won't do anything - government policy for years (for all shades of government, but particularly the current lot) has been to give councils a long, long list of things they MUST do (house people, care for the elderly, educate children etc) but then starve them of funds to do them, so anything that isn't totally life-threatening doesn't get done - and that usually includes road repairs.
I think the theory has been that if we cut government services and functions(except surveillance), and thus cut taxes, people can choose how to spend their money and buy services themselves from private companies. Unfortunately I don't see how I can choose to spend my money on pot-hole repair. Are we expected to go out with our own bucket of tarmac and big boot to stamp it down? Or have a whip-round down the street and pay to get Wimpey's in with a steamroller?
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Thursday 11th June 2015 14:59 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: What a great idea
"Unfortunately I don't see how I can choose to spend my money on pot-hole repair."
I offer you a 90% guaranteed solution that involves a small amount of your money and a permanent repair:
When nobody's around, stick a bag of post-mix concrete in the hole. No skill or talent is required on your part other than common sense of not being seen, and not getting run over. Then, when the post-mix has set, phone the council reporting that persons unknown have done a DIY pothole repair that you don't think is safe, and they'll be out like a shot to fix it, not because of the safety issue (as the original pothole was probably a bigger concern) but because somebody has infringed their monopoly of fixing potholes (or not).
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Thursday 11th June 2015 16:19 GMT Anonymous IV
Re: What a great idea
> When nobody's around, stick a bag of post-mix concrete in the hole. ...
> Phone the council ...
This would appear to work only for a single pothole, since on attempt #2 some suspicion may be engendered in even the most unintelligent member of the local Highways Department.
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Thursday 11th June 2015 15:35 GMT Mendy
Re: What a great idea
"Unfortunately I don't see how I can choose to spend my money on pot-hole repair."
This is something it's worth contacting your local councillor about as they can and do (within the constraints you mentioned) influence where money is spent. Trunk roads and Motorways are the responsibility of central government though.
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Thursday 11th June 2015 13:27 GMT TeeCee
Re: Christ, I though the roads were bad...
Range Rover and their cars don't care at all.
But their customers are mostly the sort of bling-obsessed rich twats who feel the overwhelming urge to fire a twat-o-tronic outburst at the local council if their backsides are faced with a less than cosseted ride and that's who this system is aimed at.
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Thursday 11th June 2015 10:19 GMT Douchus McBagg
used to work for a research team that had a 4096 parallel processor core machine. the main government contract they had was high resolution imaging, mapping, and processing in a unit small enough to fit in a van to analyse road surfaces for cracks, de-lamination, frost damage, all the way up to pot holes. roads could be monitored, and repaired before major problems occurred.
so while this is a step forward, I suspect this is basically getting someone else to do the data gathering using (what I suspect to be comparatively poor - but will probably get better) commodity hardware.
this idea has been around for years, and implemented in various ways, the advantage here now, is cheapness. Councils just get a bundle of data without the expenditure of money, time and effort, or having to go and get it.
http://www.netlib.org/utk/papers/advanced-computers/gamma-II.html
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Thursday 11th June 2015 17:43 GMT Tom 13
Re: Councils just get a bundle of data without the expenditure of money, time and effort,
Pointless. A couple months ago a buddy of mine lost two wheels (not tires, wheels) to a road in Philadelphia. There's no way in hell they didn't know that road needs to be repaired. It wasn't a case of trying to avoid some potholes, it was a matter of deciding which potholes offered the best chance at successfully traversing the road.
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Thursday 11th June 2015 19:23 GMT PNGuinn
Re: Potholes - theres tool for that.
More fool you. Try steel - its a lot stronger, and 20 or so years on after a lick of paint or two still looks like new.
Has another advantage - You don't get the problem of the pathetic coating of cheap varnish on the bead seats breaking down and letting than nice alkaline tyre fitters gunk delaminate the cheap varnish and corrode the ally beneath.
I've got better things to do than pump the bloody tyres every week.
Tip. When you've brought the rims back home from the fitter and cleaned 'em carefully with wet and dry get the blighter to fit the new tyres using Waxoyl rather than his patent bath soap. The small quantity of solvent wont hurt the rubber - it'll just diffuse through - and the wax will protect the rims and ensure a superb seal.
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Friday 12th June 2015 08:38 GMT MJI
I like running boards
I can get in them!
As to my car not being an off roader if it has them.
Got good stuff like high axle articulation.
Active anti roll bars which act as disconnected off road
4W traction control
centre diff lock
Off road height setting (on the back)
Correct badge on steering wheel
I have fitted extended breathers
Does green laning with no problems
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Thursday 11th June 2015 11:09 GMT Boris the Cockroach
when
the various councils can be arsed to make the repairs..
Eg a section of busy dual carridgeway near here was built using a concrete road surface, declared too noisey by the local people rich enough to afford better lawyers than the council , it was covered over in a layer of tarmac to quieten the noise.
Only trouble is.. the tarmac is seperating from the surface underneath and the holes are spreading fast....
Biting the hand that feeds IT
