[HN Gopher] Michigan DOT Snowplow Names
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       Michigan DOT Snowplow Names
        
       Author : nielsbot
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2022-01-10 22:35 UTC (25 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.michigan.gov)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.michigan.gov)
        
       | h2odragon wrote:
       | "Plowderpuff" should be wearing the headlight eyelashes things.
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       | "Sir Aaron Brr" prolly likes to splash the snow back into
       | traffic.
        
       | ejdyksen wrote:
       | Even better, the "MI Drive" site (for Michigan road conditions)
       | actually shows live webcam footage from many (all?) of the DOT
       | plows.
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       | This is valuable during the winter to see the road conditions
       | outside of areas like metro Detroit or Grand Rapids (which have
       | fixed road cameras).
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       | https://mdotjboss.state.mi.us/MiDrive/map?plows=true
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       | EDIT: I mostly drive between Grand Rapids and Lansing, and I
       | haven't looked in a while, but there are actually a lot of fixed
       | cameras on major highways now, even outside metro areas:
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       | https://mdotjboss.state.mi.us/MiDrive/map?cameras=true
        
       | lxe wrote:
       | Do the snowplow Minds name themselves?
        
         | h2odragon wrote:
         | "Self Driving v3: Self Awareness! Only $15k!"
        
       | rektide wrote:
       | In the old space 4x game series "Space Empires", one could upload
       | a txt file of ship names. This would be a great list of names.
        
       | cbfrench wrote:
       | I do think the Scots still have some better ones:
       | https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/scotland-snow-plows-nam...
       | 
       | Clearopathra is inspired, though.
        
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