Archive · 3 Oct 2026
Bengaluru Engineer Uses AI Dashcam to Report Potholes
A Bengaluru engineer made a system to help find potholes while driving.
A camera records the road, while GPS and a movement sensor help note where the car was.
An app uses AI to look at the video and spot damaged places.
It sorts potholes into small, medium and large sizes.
The app also looks through government road contracts.
This can help connect a pothole to a contract, contractor and responsible office.
The engineer shared the project online on August 5.
He said damaged roads can be dangerous.
An engineer in Bengaluru combined a dashcam, GPS and accelerometer to record road conditions and location data.
An app built with Codex sends footage to AI vision models to detect potholes and classify them as small, medium or large.
The project was shared on Instagram on August 5 as a tool for reporting potholes to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BBMP), according to the article.
The app searches about 2,900 government road contracts to identify a relevant tender, contractor and responsible government office.
The engineer cited the danger of damaged roads and said more than 2,000 Indians die each year in accidents, though the article provides no further context for that figure.
- Who
- An engineer identified in the article as Sen.
- What
- He developed an AI-assisted system to detect potholes, locate them and look up related road contracts.
- When
- The project was shared on Instagram on August 5; the year is not stated.
- Where
- Bengaluru, India; the article also refers to reporting potholes to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BBMP).
- Why
- To help document potholes and identify the contract, contractor and government office associated with the road.
- Detection equipment
- Dashcam, GPS and accelerometer
- Pothole classification
- Small, medium and large
- AI development tool
- Codex
- Contracts searched
- About 2,900 government road contracts
- Shared
- Instagram, August 5; year not specified
- Reported road-safety figure
- The article says more than 2,000 Indians die each year in accidents; it gives no additional details.