PotholeCoin: see potholes; place bounties > fix potholes; claim bounties!
what if you fix a pothole and you do a shitty job?
and then someone gets hurt because of you not fixing the pothole properly?
am sure some lawyers will find a way to sue you into the ground especially in the USA...
pothole repairs can be critically necessary band-aids [though not a full replacement for road maintenance.]
that said, it is unusual that a patch will make a pothole worse.
the objective of the project is to create a
decentralized incentive and reward structure vs. addressing concerns of 3rd parties. reactions to this activity will likely vary widely from place to place; it clearly doesnt scale to address case by case. the approach is to create an economic incentive mechanism and let the broader ecosystem adapt to this as it will.