I was driving home on Friday amidst a torrential down pour. Two things occurred to me, one that evening I had a pretty good chance of meeting Jesus and two, very few of the Robots on the way home were working. An anomaly that occurs every time it rains in Joburg.
I'm unsure how far this phenomenon reaches if its centralised to Africa or if it affects Traffic Lights the world over.
Being a person who likes to fix whats broken, or implement measures that stop things from breaking because 'if it aint broke, you don't need to fix it' would it not make sense to avoid the scenario where robots stop working. Its all about effective functionality.
I have thus thought of a few concepts to aid traffic on a rainy day and save technicians the schlep of running out to fix robots after a Highveld thunder shower
1. .Find out why robots stop working during a thunder storm. (Fix the problem at the source)
I realize that this might be an expense government is not willing to put out at this juncture, so more practically in the interim...
2. Cling wrap robots prior to a storm
and look how happy cling wrap makes people - the cling wrap technicians will have so much fun!
3. Bubble boy the robots.
its more durable than cling wrap, can be recycled and washed and re-used as need be.
