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Atlanta partners with CYVL to use AI and radar for smoother road repairs
By Karyn Greer at WSB-TV (ABC) - News
· July 16, 2026
· 2 min read
The city of Atlanta says a road-scanning partnership using artificial intelligence to fix its roads led to 60% of the city’s potholes being fixed by the start of the FIFA World Cup.At North Avenue and Techwood Drive, crews are replacing pipes.Channel 2’s Karyn Greer reports this program was so su...
Key takeaway “That’s shooting out about 6 million little points per second, and we have a full 3D map of everything that we can see up to like three stories down to centimeters of cracks on the road,” said Daniel Pelaez, CYVL CEO.
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Category: local ·
Published: July 16, 2026 ·
Source: WSB-TV (ABC) - News ·
Reading time: 2 min
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