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Pothole quickfix kit

Fix that dang pothole yourself!
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Cities are sometimes lax about potholes. If you drive to work, often you encounter the same pothole, over and over. You learn its ways. You swerve to avoid it without even thinking. All this while waiting for your city to come patch it up. This is like having your dog take a dump in your living room and just learning to walk around it because your kids should clean it up. This fatalistic attitude is self defeating. If it is in your way, you should deal with it yourself!

I propose a pothole quickfix kit. Cities fix potholes on the cheap because they have a lot of them. Chances are that there are only a few potholes that provoke an individual consumer to rage, and thus the privately purchased kit can be costlier. Also, it has to work lightning fast, so you can fix the pothole in a few seconds, in the middle of traffic, without leaving your car.

I envision a canister which could be stored indefinitely in the car. By deploying a switch, two liquid polymers are mixed within the canister. Opening the canister reveals a plastic bag of liquid. After deploying the switch, the bag is lifted out and placed in the pothole, where it flows to conform. The liquid then sets within a few seconds. Possibly it could be sunlight activated, or it might set regardless 5 seconds after deploying. The next driver will drive over a small resilient polymer lump instead of losing a hubcap to a pothole.

bungston, Apr 18 2003

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       On a related note, the number of pothole ideas on the HB might warrant a category. I did not find this idea, though.
bungston, Apr 18 2003
  

       Might work. I have this vision of a car dumping a mound of this goo in a hole and moving off, only to find it is still attached to the road by an umbilicus of resilient polymer.
UnaBubba, Apr 18 2003
  

       No, sorry. I pay my local council to do this. That doesn't mean that they actually *do* it, of course.
There have been about twenty holes in the road outside my house for about 18 months; they were "fixed", albeit in an extremely slap-dash fashion, a couple of days ago. Local elections soon; any connection?
angel, Apr 19 2003
  

       Going to the local council with some evidence of your exterminated pothole, you should be able to pick up a small bounty and a reload.
lurch, Apr 19 2003
  

       <Freud>You hav you been fillingk your "pothole" yourselvf a longk time, nicht?</F>
FarmerJohn, Apr 19 2003
  

       Sometimes a pothole is just a pothole. But I guarantee that if there were potholes right outside my house, I would do a job on them they would not soon forget.
bungston, Apr 19 2003
  

       Somebody call the council quick. We don't want to see bung banging potholes.
roby, Apr 20 2003
  
      
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