It has four wheels, four cameras, a flashing light and travels at five kilometres an hour.
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It's not a mobile speed camera and it's definitely not Google capturing images for Street View.
Wollongong City Council has commissioned an inspection of all its footpaths - 560 kilometres of them - in the city using four quad bikes equipped with cameras to collect data on the condition of paths.
The images will be used by the council to create a priority list of pathways that need maintenance, starting with the worst areas.
One of the quad bike riders, Nick Moore from Infrastructure Management Group (IMG), said he took a high-definition snapshot of the path every three metres.
Thankfully no-one has to go through every single minute of the approximately 300 hours of data collected, as they "grade the path along the way, every 20 metres", he said.
"If we grade it four or five, which are the bad ones, then it's post-rated by the people back at the offices in Sydney," he said.
"We'll be spending about three weeks here, it depends on the weather.
"For safety precautions, we are set to restrictions on the road to 30km/h, and on the footpath 5km/h, which is walking pace."
IMG has worked across Australia for various councils and the data gets sent to the company's head office in Penrith.
IMG officially began its work in Wollongong streets on Monday, although it did some testing in Wollongong last week.
Today the bikes will be out collecting data in Woonona and Thirroul.
Wollongong council's transport infrastructure asset manager Tim Cornford said the council had not used this method before - in the past someone had to go on foot to collect information on path conditions.
"The last time we did the whole city was in 2002, although we've done sections of it over the past few years," he said.
"We receive complaints generally about trips and falls."
The project cost was $123,000, which was a fraction of the $177 million value of Wollongong's footpaths, he said.
"It's part of a three- to five-year plan as council has an infrastructure financial sustainability outcome they want to achieve."
The council has asked members of the community to refrain from parking vehicles across footpaths or shared pathways and follow requests from the riders, or field technicians, regarding the safe use of the footpath.