Potholes. Everyone hates them, and yet everyone’s roads seem full of them. And not just here in the US. In the north of England, a group of scientists are trying a new way to detect and fix potholes. They want to use drones and robots to do the work. The BBC’s Tom Baker reports from Leeds.
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