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America’s Highways and Byways are About to Experience Their Own AI Revolution

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Mark Pittman reveals the key to modernizing roads doesn't require government action—it uses drivers themselves as the nerve center of a new infrastructure network.

This episode explores how artificial intelligence and IoT sensors can revolutionize the maintenance and safety of America's highways and byways. Host Lucas Hunsaker interviews Mark Pittman from Bentley Systems and Josh Finke from Lumen about the fragmented state of current infrastructure, the potential for AI to enable proactive repairs, and the critical network requirements needed to make it all work.

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AI and IoT are framed as practical tools for infrastructure maintenance.

The episode treats America's highways and bridges as a maintenance problem, with AI and IoT presented as tools for practical upkeep rather than novelty.

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For when you want AI framed as road repair, not shiny automation.

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