Tracking potholes.An automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. system to inspect pavement may help keep the nation's roads and sidewalks in better shape. Video cameras mounted on a trailer record images of the road on tape as the vehicle speeds along at 30 to 50 miles per hour, report Sidney Guralnick and Eric Suen, engineers at the Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology, in Chicago; coeducational; founded 1940 by a merger of Armour Institute of Technology (founded 1892) and Lewis Institute (1896). in Chicago. With their colleagues, they are road testing the electronic monitor, contending that it will cut the time and cost of street maintenance. In most cities, inspectors on foot eyeball See eyeballs and eyeball driven. pavement stretches, then make notes about the condition. The automated system highlights the contrast between light and shadows on the road surface as it records moving pictures. A computer then analyzes the images, helping engineers to follow road deterioration de·te·ri·o·ra·tion n. The process or condition of becoming worse. and plan repair strategies, the engineers say. |
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