@NYCMayor You’ll have to be careful or you’ll soon have everyone believing any government official could become a good and decent individual with just a little effort.
An Indian engineer in Bengaluru got tired of potholes destroying his car.
So he built an app with Codex that detects them, finds who is responsible, and files a complaint.
Here is how it works. He installed a dashcam with GPS and an accelerometer. The app records everything while he drives.
A vision model classifies every pothole by size. Small, medium, large.
But here is the clever part. Most Indian roads are under warranty.
The contractor who built them is legally responsible for fixing potholes for free.
His app searches through 2,900 government contracts, finds the exact tender number, identifies the officer responsible, attaches the photo and geolocation, and generates a ready-to-file complaint.
One drive to work. 12 potholes detected. 12 complaints ready.
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@VishnuNDTV Vishnu, brother you more than anyone else should know that every thing is political. We need more political awareness not less. Apathy towards understanding of how politics serves or harms public is why people are suffering.
There’s a particular kind of fear that only a parent knows. The fear that comes watching your child choose a life you can’t quite protect them.
Vinayak is an engineer by education. He was in product, good at his job, well liked and adding value. Everything about it looked right from where I stood: Security, salary, work place etc.
But he felt that he didn’t fit. Not as a complaint but a quiet truth. He didn’t like the closed spaces, the stillness and the daily routine.
On a family holiday, he took to deep sea diving. He went back again, to the same diving site. He learnt. He trained. And he started interning with them and helping tourists. He would check the oxygen cylinders, give demos, instructions. And he soon got certification as a deep sea diving instructor.
And one fine day, he announced that he is quitting from his corporate life. He went abroad and learnt more. And more. And more. He trained. Got every certification - On diving, surviving etc.
He is now a deep sea diving instructor, working in Indonesia. He earls less than half the pay, carries cylinders, spends long hours underwater, lives without the comforts I spent a career trying to provide. No AC room. Not even a wash basin in his room. No safety net.
He is happy. Underwater, undercompensated, and, by every real measure, more himself than he ever was in that office.
My fear hasn’t fully gone. I don’t think it’s meant to. He didn’t need me to protect him from this choice. He needed me to trust that he knew himself better than I did. That’s the harder thing to learn, as a parent: sometimes love means stepping back and letting someone be honest, brave and trusted.
I am proud. He had the courage that I didn’t have. He gave up comforts and chose what his heart said. He trained. Learnt. He was happy to be a subordinate than be the promoters son. He chose the difficult path. The not so treaded path. He is happy. And I am proud.
Happy birthday Vinayak.
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Once a MLA told me that once he became MLA, everyday someone or the other like the water mafia,tender seeker etc will come and try giving money. He said it took almost 2 to 3 months of active rejections to just ensure none of the benefit seekers come to offer him. A MLA who wants to be honest needs to work really hard to just stop people from bringing bribes to him. Every MLA is expected to do this. But will there be atleast a few first time MLAs who will walk this path ?
Superstar @rajinikanth personally invited a T. Nagar Essential public service provider Mrs Padma to his residence and gifted her a gold chain to honor her incredible integrity. Mrs.Padma recently found 45 sovereigns of gold while on duty and safely returned them to the rightful owner.
A magnificent gesture by Rajini sir
to celebrate a true Good Samaritan.
வணக்கம் சார் 🙏🙏❤️
#honest
Ola Cabs in Chennai delivers one of the worst customer experiences. Arrogant drivers, zero customer focus, constant demands for extra money and if you don’t abide they will cancel on your face.Nowhere else is it this bad. It’s honestly traumatic everytime.
@Olacabs
@blbabu@yomi2105@Olacabs This end is easily met in other cities like Delhi. Only chennaites are on the wrong end since the autorickshaw times of old. Same practice.
@Hindware_India It was your customer care that promised delivery and installation free for the replacement product. You can check your call records, which you record specifically for THIS purpose. So why does your customer care lie on the phone?