The penguin road patrol (smh.com) [LWN.net]

SMH.com has published an article that describes a linux-based video road inspection system that is being used to map road defects in Australia. "What Viner and his team have ended up with today is a system that uses Linux to run five video cameras from the same kind of van used as an ambulance. It is all done at a speed ranging from 80kmph to 100kmph. The cost of the annual survey has, in the process, fallen from $1.2 million to $850,000. And the system which was devised has so far generated about 1.3 terabytes of video footage with few problems."

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