If they can't be fixed, ..............

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.....................more visible potholes are better than nothing.

Here's the theory: make potholes easier to see, and they'll be easier to avoid. How would it work? Employ a base layer underneath the road in some garish color, and when tarmac divots appear, voila, the things stick out like wounds. Both theories have been suggested by Domenico Diego and Cristina Corradini, students at the Polytechnic University of Milan, while looking for a way to make streets safer.

The duo will test the ideas in the Italian city of Rho this spring – a small-scale trial to examine costs and benefits. If that's successful, the next stage would be figuring out a new process for making road surfaces in order to create a 'skin' on top and a contrasting 'flesh' below. And the stage after that, as far as we're concerned, would be how to keep pothole-laden streets from turning into slalom courses as drivers try not to connect the dots.  Could become an olympic event.

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That reminds me of a show on pay tv called 'The Gargage'.  It's a 'fly on the wall' show, set in Spain.
The business is called English Mobile Mechanics and is owned by a Scottish bloke called Jock (who'd a thunk it?).  Much of his business is looking after ex pat poms and their fairly expensive rides.
The amount of business he gets from damaged suspension and wheels, from just driving around the pot-holed Costa del Sol is pretty amazing.