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Old Nov 13, 2023 | 12:21 PM
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How Does The EQS Know About Pot Holes 1/2 Mile Away?
Are these reported by folks on Waze or another site. Certainly the EQS cannot visually see them that far away.
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Old Nov 13, 2023 | 01:33 PM
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Yes, these are communicated over the Car-to-X system from newer models that detect potholes through the suspension when somebody drives over one.

https://www.motorauthority.com/news/...warning-system
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Yes, these are communicated over the Car-to-X system from newer models that detect potholes through the suspension when somebody drives over one.

https://www.motorauthority.com/news/...warning-system
Fantastic! It is mind-boggling to think of the back-end database/infrastructure needed to handle all this data. For weather and accident events, the data could be auto-deleted in very short order. But for potholes...hmmm....what kind of algorithm does one use to "guess" when a pothole has been fixed? Perhaps they just wipe it after some days and let another passing car report it again.
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Fantastic! It is mind-boggling to think of the back-end database/infrastructure needed to handle all this data. For weather and accident events, the data could be auto-deleted in very short order. But for potholes...hmmm....what kind of algorithm does one use to "guess" when a pothole has been fixed? Perhaps they just wipe it after some days and let another passing car report it again.
In my experience they stay for a quite a while. Eventually they get cleared until it gets reported again. I now get regular "Traffic event ahead" warnings in a particular spot on the highway in my city and I figured it must be the pothole warning, because one of the lanes has a very sharp gap and the pavement has been deteriorating for a while. I avoid that lane, but I'm guessing it regularly gets driven over now by newer MBs, so the warning is almost permanent at this point.
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Fantastic! It is mind-boggling to think of the back-end database/infrastructure needed to handle all this data. For weather and accident events, the data could be auto-deleted in very short order. But for potholes...hmmm....what kind of algorithm does one use to "guess" when a pothole has been fixed? Perhaps they just wipe it after some days and let another passing car report it again.
This is one of my favorite features. I never had an alert 1/2 mile ahead, usually the window to react is only a few seconds. As I understand it, some MB vehicles can receive the "Pot hole ahead" message but can't report one to the server.
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It was not even in my lane but one lane over. Cool stuff.
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It was not even in my lane but one lane over. Cool stuff.
if it's not your lane then the information was not helpful
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It was to me because I drive that route twice a day and will avoid it until it is fixed. I don’t rememeber but might have changed lanes between the alert and passing the pot hole.
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