problems earlier. eric fisher from cbs station wbz-tv took a ride with those paving the way. >> if you go down this one fast enough, it's definitely like a roller coaster. >> reporter: it's the tricked- out brain child a team of engineers at northeastern university in boston, a city still reeling from record snowfall. >> we're not just seeing things that are obvious to the human eye. >> reporter: it comes equipped with a mic recording the sounds of the road, a digital camera to document it, and radar to see beneath it. >> so this is the ground- penetrating radar array. >> reporter: david vines- cavanaugh is the driver and a ph.d. candidate. >> it's hard for cities to locate where all of their potholes and the more obvious damage is. so we do help them do that. >> reporter: his high-tech ride does in hours what it takes human inspection weeks or even months to complete. >> so on that road, there were potholes. there were cracks. there were also patches or band- aids over the potholes and we