The miraculous pothole appears to surround some sort of drainage grate, which has resulted in some truly spectacular punning: Comment from discussion In Scotland I found a pothole that looks like Australia.. Comment from discussion In Scotland I found a pothole that looks like Australia.. Comment from discussion In Scotland I found a pothole that looks like Australia.. Comment from discussion In Scotland I found a pothole that looks like Australia.. And then this fantastic exchange happened: Thank you, internet.
|
|
I CAN'T SEE— I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SEE THE POTHOLE BUT I CAN'T SEE ANY POTHOLE THAT YOU HAD IN 2016.
|
|
It's clear by the city's official pothole tracker that public services in Chicago patch a lot of potholes, but maybe not enough, given Tomasulo's rogue pothole fixing.
|
|
Sereno's young pothole was far from the worst he's seen.
|
|
He hopes he doesn't need to throw another pothole party.
|
|
Even the thump of a virtual pothole can be created.
|
|
There was a pothole in the road that I missed.
|
|
I had to choose between a pothole and the kid.
|
|
One Facebook group has started an "adopt a pothole" page.
|
|
Would they lift and fall in response to a pothole?
|
|
There is a little bit of Senator Pothole in him.
|
|
This latter variable is the fixation of Professor Pothole, a.k.a.
|
|
I should have seen it coming (it is, after all pothole season) but it was a tight merge, in heavy traffic, and by the time I saw the pothole, I was in it. WHAM!
|
|
Domino&aposs Pizza delivering pothole repairs to a town near you.
|
|
You wouldn't know if it was a bowl or a pothole.
|
|
LOS ANGELES — It had to hit a pothole at some point.
|
|
So, go for a stroll, but don't step in a pothole.
|
|
If, say, you hit a pothole, could a city be liable?
|
|
Go deeper ... Goldman Sachs: First quarter of 2019 is a "GDP pothole"
|
|
"Harare is the pothole capital of the world," grumbles a former minister.
|
|
All have promised to work to fix the state's pothole-ridden roads.
|
|
So, under the cover of night, "pothole vigilantes" are filling them in.
|
|
It's like riding over a pothole in a car with nice suspension.
|
|
Still, most people only pretend to eat the cereal out of the pothole.
|
|
Much like Shakespeare, this pothole died just as it was celebrating its birthday.
|
|
So he got the city's attention — by throwing the pothole a birthday party.
|
|
And if you're driving anywhere this weekend, remember the P-word is pothole.
|
|
Did you see the reflection of that neon sign in the flooded pothole?
|
|
Riding with him is a master class in pothole dodging and neighbor greeting.
|
|
"But we're going to continue going out there until every pothole is filled."
|
|
Ride on top of that, and boom — you've got the makings of a pothole.
|
|
Calling themselves the Pothole Vigilantes, the duo struck a chord in this scarred city.
|
|
Over the course of the four-and-a-half minute video, Buttigieg demonstrated how to fill a pothole by clearing the area of debris, applying material to hold the fresh asphalt in place, shoveling asphalt onto the pothole and tamping it down.
|
|
I mean, once they fill the pothole, they brand with their logo, but who cares?
|
|
Well, clubs like Pothole act as lounges where people can meet up to smoke together.
|
|
Nonetheless, the law creates a new pothole in the road to peace, for two reasons.
|
|
A: You will need a smaller, deeper pothole for it to be more bowl-like.
|
|
One such, Alfonse D'Amato, an American politician, was nicknamed "Senator Pothole" by his grateful constituents.
|
|
This forces motorists to rely on slow, pothole-ridden roads winding through village after village.
|
|
One pothole was credited with shredding the tires of 15 cars in under an hour.
|
|
Plus, it sure beats watching three workers take three hours to fix a single pothole.
|
|
Hit a pothole — it's hard not to these days — and the Impreza remains drum tight.
|
|
The campaign's premise was whimsical, yet simple: pothole-ridden roads damage your take-home pizza. Solution?
|
|
"A vulnerability isn't like a pothole that you have to recognize in an image," says Brumley.
|
|
"You want to know that there is a pothole or a curve coming up," he said.
|
|
"It has enabled us to stretch our pothole dollars and do 'more with less,'" Whitfield said.
|
|
But now, cash-strapped and pothole-ridden, states are asking the eco-friendly to pay up.
|
|
"There's this smoke and smelly food but over here he just fixed a pothole," Allen explained.
|
|
"The way I look at it, there is nothing that is a real pothole," he said.
|
|
" On the state of American infrastructure: "America is one big pothole...our infrastructure has been decimated.
|
|
To make food delivery more efficient, DoorDash needs to know about every pothole and parking space.
|
|
During peak pothole-repair season in early March, that number can expand to more than 60.
|
|
But these efforts are like trying to fill a giant pothole one teaspoon at a time.
|
|
Driving down the narrow, pothole-ridden streets of Manhattan's Upper East Side, the Clarity handled itself smoothly.
|
|
"There&aposs no Democratic or Republican way to fill a pothole," he told the New Milford Patch.
|
|
Her car makes a rattling sound after she hit a pothole on one of Detroit's highways recently.
|
|
"My daughter saw a pothole and said, 'Grandpa would not like that,' " Ivanka recalled with a laugh.
|
|
And at the moment, their roadmap has at least one glaring pothole: a lack of trained people.
|
|
"My daughter saw a pothole and said, 'Grandpa would not like that,' " Ivanka recalls with a laugh.
|
|
A smear of rubber led from a particularly large pothole off the road and into a tree.
|
|
"Every autonomous car out there shouldn't have to find the same pothole and log it," she wrote.
|
|
It had been patched with asphalt, and this patch had developed a new pothole of its own.
|
|
It isn't uncomfortable, but the firm ride can lead to harsh experiences on pothole-infested city streets.
|
|
The city has unveiled its "Pothole Patching Machine," which it claims can fill 0603 potholes a day.
|
|
How often do you think about the road in front of your house unless there's a pothole?
|
|
It combines the efficient body lines of a wagon with the pothole-taming suspension height of an SUV.
|
|
It always wants to rumble, with the stiff suspension shaking your bones every time you cross a pothole.
|
|
After 13 years of longboarding and 2.5 on my Boosted without injury, a giant pothole swallowed me up.
|
|
Jagruti lost control after her bike fell into a deep pothole and was crushed by a passing truck.
|
|
For example, in the Prairie Pothole Region, waterfowl populations have increased by 2202 million birds between 2628-28500.
|
|
Any American driver can point to a bridge, road, or pothole that threatens them on the daily commute.
|
|
I went with the pothole and broke my elbow and my nose at the base of the septum.
|
|
It's a water-activated magnetite-and-aggregate mix that simply gets poured into a pothole, no heating required.
|
|
What's worse, he said, is that he recently hit a highway pothole and had to replace a wheel.
|
|
On an early morning run, training for his fifth marathon, Doug Storer hit a pothole he couldn't see.
|
|
We could see another employment pothole like we did in May, but I don't think that's going to happen.
|
|
That should help with Seattle's many hills, and airless tires will prevent flats on our treacherous, pothole-filled streets.
|
|
A: The pothole was probably like six inches deep and it was filled all the way up with cereal.
|
|
Jackson, Mississippi resident Eddie Prosser was tired of the pothole that had graced his neighborhood for a year, unfixed.
|
|
Pothole damage costs U.S. drivers $3 billion per year, according to a new study from the AAA auto club.
|
|
We noticed a deflated tire, pushed out of shape by a rim that had been damaged by a pothole.
|
|
Tests of both pothole-patching solutions held up for more than a year, and several years in some cases.
|
|
Riccio's pothole equation, "the F=ma of potholes," as he calls it, can be expressed as P=s+g .
|
|
Last month, Mayor de Blasio held a press conference to hail the successful filling of his administration's millionth pothole.
|
|
I hit a pothole and flew off, knocked out my front tooth and had to get a root canal.
|
|
But other queer artists head for history right from the start, as if deputized to repair a pothole there.
|
|
With that in mind, let's take a stroll down the pothole-ridden memory lane that is our modern era.
|
|
We have no common word for a hole that is bigger than a pinprick but smaller than a pothole.
|
|
A peaceful world with inadequate infrastructure is preferable to one at constant risk of war but with pothole-free highways.
|
|
Next thing you know, the pothole-filled street is closed off for repairs and traffic is congested for a week.
|
|
" What to watch: Goldman Sachs analysts estimate GDP will come in at 0.9%, calling the first quarter a "GDP pothole.
|
|
If many unexpectedly hit the brake at the same spot on the road, this signals a pothole or another obstacle.
|
|
Our pothole misadventures killed the morning, and I was worried about driving on the Yaris's spare tire in the dark.
|
|
The example of the unnamed city mayor being denied pothole-searching drones was intended to emphasize the Pentagon's selective criteria.
|
|
Since the Segway has no shock absorption, a small part of my nervous system dies with every pothole I hit.
|
|
Nassau County's plan included more than a dozen ideas for sharing services among villages, from pothole repair to code enforcement.
|
|
Last year during pothole season in Brooklyn one of my rims was dented so deeply it had to be replaced.
|
|
For the past year, the self-described "pothole advocates" have been doling out a steady stream of taunts and mockery.
|
|
Such cases may be benign, like the car not knowing what to do when it confronts an unplanned pothole repair crew.
|
|
One person profiled by CNBC said she landed in the emergency room with a busted lip when she hit a pothole.
|
|
Then he died in a freak accident involving a dog and a haunted pothole, an incident for which Rose blames herself.
|
|
It's good for more than crime, and some cities have been using it to track, for example, pothole repair or homelessness.
|
|
When a single vehicle using HERE technology passes over a pothole, it will be recorded and subsequent vehicles directed around it.
|
|
Jarring vibrations, intermittently suspended by loose sand slides and pothole plunges, shook the truck; red bull dust seeped through closed vents.
|
|
Programs for homeless people, schools, universities, road and bridge repairs, reducing carbon pollution, and even pothole filling all received significant funding.
|
|
Many New Yorkers have nightmares of a fire escape ladder or scaffolding falling on them, or even falling into a pothole.
|
|
Lucius Riccio, a Columbia University lecturer and former city transportation commissioner, who is the originator and chief proponent of pothole analytics.
|
|
AAA just released a report revealing that US drivers have spent $15 billion on pothole-related damage over the past five years.
|
|
The average cost of repairs after pothole encounters is $300, but as AAA points out, drivers aren't just dealing replacing punctured tires.
|
|
It felt as though the movement forward the Academy Awards had been making since 2015's #OscarsSoWhite campaign had hit a pothole.
|
|
But if it's something like a pothole in a desolate road, the agency might decide to deal with that a bit later.
|
|
IF YOU SEE a pothole, smell gas or step in water from a burst main, you can report the details online immediately.
|
|
He and his team are now trying to raise the money needed to develop the technology into a commercial pothole-fixing system.
|
|
Although Patterson's time frame is postcolonial, to get to Jamaica's economic present he navigates the pothole-strewn road of its troubled past.
|
|
Once populated by over 100 bustling auto body shops and junkyards, an eerie quiet has now settled over its pothole-riddled streets.
|
|
Jagged sidewalks brim over with supporters, and a handful of brass bands dripping in funk make their way down pothole-filled streets.
|
|
My husband, Andrej, flew over his bicycle's handlebars when he hit a pothole at high speed on a Sunday ride in Washington.
|
|
If it had been a fish, say the bottom-feeding Black Asphaltus, this jagged-mouth pothole would have been one of those.
|
|
"When you're growing at 1-percent-something, unless global growth is a lot better … at any pothole, you're in a recession," LaVorgna said.
|
|
Campos says she's also hit a pothole in the middle of a highway, where traffic means you can't safely swerve to avoid them.
|
|
Imagine you're in an autonomous car and you come to a pothole and your car notices it, avoids it, and you keep moving.
|
|
Stevie Wonder brought down L.A. City Hall Friday, but not because of pothole issues ... he headlined a City of Angels tribute to Prince.
|
|
Fed up with the city's slow progress on getting it fixed, the gardeners of Toronto banded together and planted tomatoes in the pothole.
|
|
"I do find our problems in the city of Jackson serious, but at the same time, it's just one small pothole," he said.
|
|
Pothole repairs and resurfacing work could be halted, but projects with other sources of funding or that are critical to safety would continue.
|
|
Behold: a pothole seen in Scotland, shared by Reddit user Rhyzzz, which looks strikingly like a map of the great nation of Australia.
|
|
When you expand your frame of reference, you will see that what is happening looks much more like a pothole than a cliff.
|
|
By the early nineties, the city was repaving fifteen hundred lane miles a year; the pothole count bottomed out at around eighty thousand.
|
|
Austin, TexasUniversity of Texas star baseball shortstop David Hamilton hit a pothole riding an electric scooter, tearing his Achilles tendon and requiring surgery.
|
|
It's a large pothole: Lovers, heroes, victories and villains, not to mention the simple pleasure of enjoyable clichés, have all disappeared into it.
|
|
Which brought me to hit a massive pothole, and the idea just came crashing into my head to join the two problems into one!
|
|
This year's overwhelmingly white acting nominees and complete shutout of women directors made it feel as though the pothole had grown into a canyon.
|
|
Riding on the ancient, pockmarked streets of lower Manhattan, there were several times I felt I would fall into a pothole and never emerge.
|
|
Envision the horror of getting into a car accident because you couldn't swerve around a huge pothole in the middle of a decrepit highway.
|
|
On my final day of the trip, I blew out not one, but two tires on a Titanic-sized pothole outside of Cape Agulhas.
|
|
The American Automobile Association recently calculated that 16m drivers in the United States suffered pothole damage to their vehicles in the past five years.
|
|
Plenty of executives have missteps — there are many companies that hit a pothole — and there's no reason to give up for most of them.
|
|
A forehand winner and a Nara error allowed Halep to sidestep that pothole and she wrapped up victory when Nara smacked a forehand long.
|
|
We all notice infrastructure needs when we drive over a pothole or get stuck in traffic back-ups caused by the latest bridge repair.
|
|
No one needs an app to confirm hitting a pothole, but this project could improve life in many ways for drivers — and everyone else.
|
|
It's pothole season, or really, now that the magnolias, and the Mets, have wilted, the season for filling potholes and then boasting about it.
|
|
Keep in mind: Whatever happens election-wise, promise-wise or pothole-wise, the new Brexit deadline as set by the EU is January 31st.
|
|
He threw a birthday party for the 3-month-old pothole on his street, complete with a slice of cake with a candle on top.
|
|
"I would rather pay a few cents more at the pump than a lot more money to a mechanic" to repair pothole damage, Garcetti said.
|
|
Hidden in an industrial park along a pothole-covered road busy with trucks, a gravel expanse gave way to an abandoned factory filled with migrants.
|
|
The resulting potholes are expensive for cities to fix, and AAA estimates pothole-related car damage costs US drivers more than $3 billion a year.
|
|
In recent years, the mayor said, the village had fallen behind on some of those services, including street sweeping, pothole repair and storm drain maintenance.
|
|
In his youthful explorations, he studied a glacial pothole by a busy roadside that historians had long mistaken for a well dug by American Indians.
|
|
No one could reasonably claim that the Ferrari would be more pleasing to drive on pothole-ridden roads than the Porsche on well-maintained ones.
|
|
The luxury apartment buildings near the Trump development in Gurgaon have names like Palm Springs and Central Park, even as they overlook pothole-ridden highways.
|
|
"What drivers try not to go over?" is not a "pothole," but golfers and their driver clubs who are trying not to go over PAR.
|
|
I Was Misinformed I am a little on edge because I have been to the Pothole Wars and soon I will have to go back.
|
|
"So the third quarter dip was only a pothole after all and not the end of the world," said Michael Blythe, chief economist at CBA.
|
|
On Tuesday evening, the Pembroke Pines Public Works Department made a routine stop to follow-up on complaints about a pothole on a local roadway.
|
|
Audi will offer a system that scans the road ahead in order to pre-configure the suspension: You won't even feel that bump or pothole ahead.
|
|
"It can form in saturated loose sand with standing water (in this case, he stepped into a small sand filled pothole with one leg)," she said.
|
|
It's a massive coup for Rubio, whose campaign hit a pothole in New Hampshire, and it's a blow to rival Jeb Bush, who coveted Haley's support.
|
|
Now you're paralyzed with anxiety, unable to move until you find out where they're doing pothole repairs, all because your life is ruled by a tunnel .
|
|
The 45-year-old comic book salesman, wearing a Patch Me logo across his chest, emptied a bag of asphalt into a deep and perilous pothole.
|
|
The capital of Indiana (whose state motto is, ironically, "the crossroads of America") has essentially become one large pothole, compliments of wild temperature swings this winter.
|
|
Most of the time you're "driving," you're actually just stopped or digging your car out of a pothole, or are constantly avoiding accidents or dodging human bodies.
|
|
But she knows better than anyone that, given the chance, Dr. Grey is going to choose the most complicated, bumpy, pothole-riddled road to love or happiness.
|
|
Thus the mayor who fails to remove snow from roads, neglects pothole repair, distributes impure water or fails to keep streets from flooding loses the next election.
|
|
Now reform has hit a pothole: After several years of coming in far below predictions, premiums on covered plans have shot up by more than 20 percent.
|
|
During the filming of a James Bond movie in central Rome, the actor Daniel Craig banged his head after hitting a pothole with his speeding Aston Martin.
|
|
"If there's a problem, you don't get to say it's fake news and pretend that the pothole isn't there," he told voters in South Carolina this fall.
|
|
On Wednesday, 4/20, Colorado Springs–based Pothole Cannabis Club offered a special promotion: come clean up the park for a couple hours and receive a free joint.
|
|
The National Wildlife Federation documented that these significant losses in habitat for grassland birds caused a drop in both species diversity and abundance in the Prairie Pothole Region.
|
|
Click here to view original GIFGIF: YouTubeSome road hazards are easy for drivers to spot and avoid, like a cavernous pothole, but others aren't so easy to see.
|
|
I was on a high from the excitement and managed to make it meds-free for eight hours — until my boyfriend seemingly hit every pothole possible while driving.
|
|
Within the Prairie Pothole Region, farm bill conservation programs (if reauthorized) are expected to provide $1 billion of net benefits from ecosystem services over the next 20 years.
|
|
"We are at the very bottom of the pothole, right between technology cycles," said Mikael Rautanen, analyst at Inderes Equity Research, with a 'buy' rating on the stock.
|
|
Cubans have been preparing for the Obama visit, with plainclothes officers reportedly blanketing the capital of Havana and public works crews laying down asphalt in pothole-laden streets.
|
|
LAS VEGAS — In the nearly two weeks since her standout debate performance in New Hampshire, the momentum behind Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota had encountered nary a pothole.
|
|
Then, the system checks those against as many as 90 indexes, such as steering wheel angle, lane deviation and external factors such as wind gusts and pothole avoidance.
|
|
"I was test-driving a BMW 750i with run-flats last year and I hit a pothole and ripped open the driver-side front tire," Mr. Sinclair said.
|
|
To assist motorists, the city last year posted an "Indy pothole viewer" map online, which currently shows 4,388 open potholes, marked by a swarm of angry red dots.
|
|
Beneath their feet, three pothole-sized metal plates were nestled into a patch of fake grass with wires running from them to a series of sensors that measure electricity.
|
|
I've driven down the pothole-riddled road from downtown Nairobi to Tigoni, a lush suburb bordered by crumbling mansions and tea plantations, for a visit to their family home.
|
|
"It may not be the most pothole ridden, or the most trafficky, but $15 is a ridiculous amount of money to pay for a toll...," wrote one Jalopnik commenter.
|
|
Buttigieg has repeatedly characterized his plan as a "glide path" to achieving full Medicare for All, but retroactive billing could very well be a large pothole in the runway.
|
|
The sole pothole in the otherwise efficient, predictable hour had Ingraham wrapping up her Kelly interview by asking the buttoned-down general how he might dress up for Halloween.
|
|
He says his actual driving sessions are usually shorter, popping in to solve an "edge case" — like if an autonomous delivery robot encounters an unexpected construction crew fixing a pothole.
|
|
Harry is so intent on saving June, and therefore escaping his mother who is chasing the duo, that he bolts down a winding road until the car hits a pothole.
|
|
Let's talk cash, profits, margins, and survival this morning as Uber and Lyft prepare to drive straight through the economic crisis, while scooters appear headed for a pothole at best.
|
|
This year, with damage that would turn out to be a bent rear rim as well as a flayed front tire, it was obvious that pothole season was even worse.
|
|
"This week we're looking at an increase" — maybe 123 to 212 percent more new potholes than last week — said Joseph Carbone, the pothole chief of the city's Department of Transportation.
|
|
At one point, one of the officers driving a motorcycle that was part of Oprea's motorcade hit a pothole he didn't notice because of the rain and lost his life.
|
|
A checkpoint with armed guards, a barricade, a pothole or even a traffic jam will take away my freedom as much as any fiddling with software settings in an autonomous vehicle.
|
|
By pursuing them single-mindedly, wouldn't the party be falling into a 1990s pothole again, ignoring the rising numbers of nonwhite and Millennial voters who lean left of blue-collar whites?
|
|
That quest hit a major pothole Monday when General Motors announced it would slash its workforce and shut production at five North American facilities in Ohio, Michigan, Maryland and Ontario, Canada.
|
|
People who will benefit the most are those new to credit — say, young people with a limited credit history — or those who hit a financial pothole and are rebuilding their credit.
|
|
I'm happy with the people who are wandering around looking at the stars but I am looking at the ground and I want to fix the pothole before I fall in.
|
|
In other instances, attackers wait for a vehicle to slow down – at a pothole for example – before jumping on, cutting through the tarpaulin and hurling goods onto the ground for waiting companions.
|
|
How, then, could anyone argue with a straight face that it would be more pleasing to drive the Ferrari on pothole-ridden roads than to drive the Porsche on well-maintained ones?
|
|
It is as if there were a pothole in the middle of the street that every driver studiously avoided, but that most insisted did not exist even as they swerved around it.
|
|
When Montpelier decided to rip up a pothole-riddled asphalt road and replace it with gravel in 2009, it didn't see itself at the forefront of a growing trend in public works.
|
|
This means it is not heated with specialist equipment to make the bitumen in it soft enough to flow into the shape required and meld properly with the edges of the pothole.
|
|
Instead it's a series of information like red-light rules, pothole locations, sidewalk lengths, posted signage, and more very specific details, like a city-specific law about speed limits in school zones.
|
|
A front rack doesn't have the same effect — plus you can see your stuff, meaning that if something gets launched via a particularly cavernous pothole, you won't ride off without realizing it.
|
|
Many vehicles can't weather the approximately six-hour drive on bumpy, pothole-ridden dirt roads from Monrovia, the nation's capital, to the more rural town of Cestos, where the hospital is located.
|
|
And yet it is also, within the limits of improv, extremely tight, so that you never worry you will wind up watching the cast fall into a pothole (or canal), unless intentionally.
|
|
"Many of your favorite Waze features, like reporting traffic, pinpointing a pothole or checking for alternate routes, can also be accessed simply by using your voice," Google said in a Monday blog post.
|
|
That leaves a final, dramatic option available to Palestinians: to dissolve the PA. Corrupt and ineffective, it offers residents of the West Bank overcrowded hospitals and roads that are more pothole than pavement.
|
|
The Wentz Wagon hasn't blown a tire or busted an axle, it's just hit a pothole—and as bad as Detroit potholes can be, this wagon should still carry the Eagles pretty far.
|
|
In one study a few years back, Phoenix had a "Pothole Index" rating of just 18.7, the lowest of 13 Western regions, with nearby Tucson coming in nearly eight-times worse at 85033.
|
|
The perpetually embattled mayor, Virginia Raggi, this month inaugurated a 17 million euro "Marshall Plan" (not to be confused with February's 90 million euro "Pothole Plan") to patch up 50,000 potholes a month.
|
|
" Mr. Sinclair also said that trendy low-profile tires, which have narrower sidewalls and offer less cushioning on pothole impact — and are what my car came with — were "totally worthless in our area.
|
|
Potholes form when water and salt seep into cracks, freeze and expand, creating a larger crevice, said Joe Carbone, who works for the Transportation Department, where he is known as the pothole chief.
|
|
For example: If you're mad about the pothole on your street, or tactics by your local police force, don't invest all your time petitioning your member of Congress when that's not their job.
|
|
"You can't can't go one block without hitting a massive pothole and having your coffee jump out of the coffee holder," Brian, who asked that his last name be withheld, told VICE News.
|
|
Out of the factory, the Vulcan is completely configured for track use, including an asphalt-hugging ride height that would almost immediately be torn to shreds by unforgiving, pothole-ridden streets and steep driveways.
|
|
"The bilateral relationship isn't in a great place, and the government's announcement will be another major pothole," said Danielle Cave, a former analyst at an Australian security intelligence agency, the Office of National Assessments.
|
|
"The bilateral relationship isn't in a great place, and the government's announcement will be another major pothole," said Danielle Cave, a former analyst at an Australian security intelligence agency, the Office of National Assessments.
|
|
There were a few times, after hitting a pothole or speed bump a little faster than I intended, when I could feel all the gears and components underneath physically shift, which was nerve-wracking.
|
|
A larger tear in the tire — something that can happen when modern low-profile tires meet a pothole — or damage to the sidewall or wheel rim will not be fixed by a leak kit.
|
|
Editorial One of the few practical job-building promises of the Trump presidential campaign — a $22 trillion investment in repairing the nation's crumbling infrastructure — is turning out to be as hollow as a pothole.
|
|
But as peak-pothole season arrives, American motorists dodging an epidemic of roadway craters are already shelling out some $230 billion a year in repair costs for blown tires, broken shock absorbers and busted axles.
|
|
If they block this plan without going to the negotiating table, they run the risk of the American voters blaming them every time they hit a pothole on the road or suffer from flight delays.
|
|
Ross McKenzie, managing director of the Waterloo Centre of Automotive Research, recalled how a vehicle's lidar, which uses laser light to help autonomous cars "see" nearby objects, once mistook an ice patch for a pothole.
|
|
She calls his condition a pothole syndrome: Things will seem smooth, his wit and vocabulary intact, and then there will be a sudden, unforeseen gap in his reasoning, or a concept he cannot quite grasp.
|
|
In our prairie pothole, a place glaciers left with natural abundance, nine out of 203 students at the elementary school are immigrants — the schools here are a micro-city where you can hear 30 languages.
|
|
An "unanticipated landing," however, typically results in a startle response, in which muscles tense and release in a random, uncoordinated way; think of how your body jerks when you step into a pothole you didn't see.
|
|
You have snacks in your car for when you go hungry in the middle of a traffic jam, a charger for when your phone dies, and a spare tire for when you accidentally hit a pothole.
|
|
What was once innocuous becomes amplified, princess-and-the-pea style: A tiny pothole or bump in the pavement capsizes a skater who has their knees locked, sand destroys roller skate bearings, and stairs ruin knees.
|
|
"It's just another sign that, certainly, the majority here seems ill-equipped to deal with this type of huge pothole in the road," said Ms. Binder Don't forget — few Americans hold Congress in much esteem already.
|
|
Brill says the idea for his book came before the November 2016 election, when he landed at a "grimy terminal" at Kennedy Airport and got stuck in traffic on the "dirty, pothole-filled" Van Wyck Expressway.
|
|
And two bodies' responses to the same pathogen can differ, just like a pothole might damage one car but not another, said Kevin Sauer of Kansas State University, who has studied cross-contamination in the kitchen.
|
|
The team is quick to note this doesn't entirely solve the problem of navigation; though the Wayband can steer a blind person to the Post Office, it can't help them avoid a pothole or cross a street.
|
|
As for the border wall debate in Washington, which caused the longest-running government shutdown in history, "it's hard to imagine that this is going to be [anything] other than a pothole in the road," Rodriguez said.
|
|
When it launches the next (and last) 17 cities over the summer and fall, it will have given towns a total of $100,000 on pothole repairs—but it will have gained a priceless amount of in-kind advertising.
|
|
But he later hit a pothole at the same hole that shook him on Thursday, the par-four first, where he ran up a double-bogey that at least was better than his triple from the previous day.
|
|
Lyft is really is working on self-driving cars—and soon they'll be driving around San Francisco Uber hits a pothole as London yanks its operating license Maybe Uber's new CEO, Expedia vet Dara Khosrowshahi, can sort it out
|
|
Users can look at other requests made nearby (80 percent of 311 requests come from very nearby), and upload pictures of their issue—a pothole, a water leak, a restaurant inspection request, a request for help with garbage pickup.
|
|
Gabriel Oprea, a member of the Senate, was traveling in a motorcade to which he was not entitled in late 2015 when Bogdan Gigina, one of his police escorts, crashed when his bike hit a pothole in rainy conditions.
|
|
A century later, we've lost our collective faith in the power of great projects like the Golden Gate, not to mention our trust in the government to fix a pothole on time and on budget, let alone create an inspiring bridge.
|
|
Pete Cordaro was creeping down a dirt road in his 2013 Tesla Model S electric car, on a Sunday outing with his wife to hunt mushrooms in the Pennsylvania woods, when he encountered a pothole and then heard a loud crack.
|
|
If there's a pothole on the street outside your home, a fallen tree, a cracked sidewalk or some other issue in your city, you, as a constituent, can contact your local government to send out the appropriate department to handle it.
|
|
And in Chicago, which recently emerged from a brutal few days of subzero temperatures and where snow is forecast for five out of the next seven days, the city received just shy of 4,400 pothole complaints from residents in January.
|
|
These intentional designs are key to smoother riding, especially on busted streets and roads, where any crack or pothole could send you flying through the air (it happened to me earlier in the month while riding a Lime e-scooter in Portland).
|
|
On days when she's not on her period, Shanley offers other uterus concerns: "I said I was on I-70 and I had hit a pothole and I was worried it had jiggled something loose in there," she recalled telling a representative once.
|
|
According to Lime, the bug occurs in "very rare cases," usually when a rider is going downhill at top speed and hits a pothole or obstacle, the scooter will unexpectedly brake the front wheel, which has led to some riders being injured.
|
|
Along with being one of the main ways kids in backseats learn to curse, these road-pocking craters cost drivers serious cash: AAA found that in 2016, close to 30 million drivers needed post-pothole repairs done, some jobs costing up to $1,000.
|
|
I thought it was pretty comfortable, but as we drove up the entrance ramp I was jostled up and down and at one point a pothole made it feel more like a roller coaster ride than a quick jaunt on the highway.
|
|
If an autonomous car runs over a pothole, will it be able to communicate and share that data not only with cars of the same type [of car], or a particular manufacturer, but [with] all autonomous vehicles regardless of who made it?
|
|
The Gran Coupe also gains 603 inches in width and stands 260 inches taller, those number translating into a cabin roomy enough to allow adults to sit in the rear without bumping elbows or banging heads whenever the car hits a pothole.
|
|
Since July 2013, L.A. has paved 10,754 miles of road; cut the average pothole repair time by half; implemented a $1.4 billion plan to repair every sidewalk in every community, and greatly expanded the number of trees in neighborhoods across the city.
|
|
For pothole epics, GoogleNew York, plus street, plus repair:an Upper East Side sinkhole seized a garbage truck; a Bay Ridge cave-in —12 feet long, five feet wide,three and a half feet deep — cratereda car, dropped it beyond a C-hole.
|
|
A deceleration from the tax-cut stimulus of 20183, a sudden drop-off in consumer spending, a stock market crash and trade policy brinksmanship had economists warning of a giant pothole in the first quarter and a recession potentially around the corner.
|
|
In-dash navigation systems will be getting smarter, not just learning your preferences and using data connections for timely updates, but crowdsourcing sensor information from connected vehicles to assess traffic problems and road conditions — even guiding you around a newly formed pothole.
|
|
QUAYSIDE, an area of flood-prone land stretching for 12 acres (4.8 hectares) on Toronto's eastern waterfront, is home to a vast, pothole-filled parking lot, low-slung buildings and huge soyabean silos—a crumbling vestige of the area's bygone days as an industrial port.
|
|
The area is known for suffering flash flooding during nearly every hard rain, worse than in other parts of the city, and if a driver is not paying attention, a pothole on one of those hilly southern roads are capable of cracking an engine mount.
|
|
Among residents' other regular complaints are the roads, which often seem to be more pothole than concrete, and the water quality, which had much of the city on a "boil water" advisory (including for bathing) due to frozen pipes just days before I arrived.
|
|
The co-founder of Revolights, Kent Frankovich, a 33-year-old mechanical engineer, began his quest for a better bike light after pedaling into a pothole one night while commuting from Stanford University where, among other things, he helped design a solar-powered freezer.
|
|
If most wealthy drivers would prefer driving a $150,000 Porsche 911 Turbo on well-maintained highways to driving a $333,000 Ferrari Berlinetta on pothole-ridden ones, why do so many wealthy drivers continue to favor lower taxes, even knowing that means further degradation of the nation's infrastructure?
|
|
Yet, for more than a decade, farming and fossil fuel groups have lobbied against WOTUS, arguing that it overreaches, and regulates "nearly every piece of land that touches a pothole, ditch, or puddle," according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has repeatedly called the rule unconstitutional.
|
|
Political problem for GOP The budget is also a political pothole for Republicans -- and a weapon for Democrats, who will undoubtedly pester Republicans with its symbolic, yet significant, cuts to popular programs like Planned Parenthood, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
|
|
Thing is, that's still a giant fucking waste of public money—every ticket tax dollar spent on giving the Cincinnati Bengals a future holographic scoreboard is a dollar not spent on a textbook, patched pothole, or preventing the Washington, D.C. subway system from randomly catching on fire.
|
|
"We diagnosed the issue in a laboratory environment and determined that in very rare cases — usually riding downhill at top speed while hitting a pothole or other obstacle — excessive brake force on the front wheel can occur, resulting in a scooter stopping unexpectedly," read its statement, published Feb. 23.
|
|
His infrastructure plan, released Wednesday, includes a $1 billion annual "pothole fund" as well as $850 billion over 10 years for capital investment in roads, bridges, freight and other infrastructure; $100 billion over 10 years to fix water systems; and a tripling of federal investment in public transportation.
|
|
She nodded along, as we crawled down the pothole-filled street we lived on, offering up advice on how to deal with the egregious misunderstandings of teachers and students at school with a small note of sadness in her cracking voice — the advice was good, and the sadness was easily palpable.
|
|
ROME — Thousands of Romans gathered in front of City Hall on Saturday morning to protest the state of the Italian capital, where garbage is piled high on pothole-filled streets that have become a hazard for cars but a haven for wild boars, and where public buses catch on fire.
|
|
With viewership numbers down from the peak of the sport's popularity about a decade ago and veterans such as Tony Stewart and Dale Earnhardt Jr. now retired in the rearview mirror, Johnson's departure will leave a massive pothole in the road for NASCAR as it looks to claim a bigger share of the market.
|
|
"We've been weighing in on a lot of national issues, even international issues, but right now we're talking about something that is literally as down to earth as it gets, and a big part of what mayors around the country are dealing with, and that is the common pothole," Buttigieg said in a video stream of the activity posted to social media.
|
|
Last week, he completed his "Vermin of New York" series in Manhattan and Brooklyn, featuring pothole mosaics of a cockroach (on Bleecker Street near Mercer Street in Greenwich Village); a rat (on South Oxford Street in Fort Greene); a pigeon (on Pacific Street near Vanderbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights); and President Trump (on Second Street between First Avenue and Avenue A in the East Village).
|
|
In other data news, Britain's April services purchasing managers' index (PMI) hit 22015, the lowest since February 6003 and down from the previous month's reading of 2600, which on top of the U.K.'s "lackluster" construction and manufacturing figures, suggests the economy "could be about to hit not only hit a pothole in Q29.8, but potentially come to a halt," Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets, said in a note.
|
|