Doing good is getting easier. Soon, you'll be able to do your civic duty of reporting potholes without even lifting a finger. The city of Boston is working on a smartphone app that would automatically report potholes to authorities--making it easier to find and fill the more than 19,000 potholes Boston grapples with each year. The in-development Street Bump app uses a smartphone's GPS and accelerometer technology to register the moment when a car lurches into a pothole and to identify the location. No need for the driver to call or email city officials, the app just goes ahead and sends the message on its own. The engineers behind the app--who hail from the Boston mayor's office of New Urban Mechanics, the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and the Santa Fe Complex--believe Street Bump will make city driving easier, and will save city government some headaches. As the Boston Globe reports:
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