Internet Roadtrip: Vote to steer

by memalignon 5/7/2025, 5:50 AMwith 40 comments

by hobofanon 5/10/2025, 7:25 AM

Oh boy that's going to be hefty bill for the street view API, isn't it?

300 people * 12 votes/min -> 3600 street view events/min

3600 events/min * $0.002/event -> $7.2/min (at current usage)

by moritonalon 5/10/2025, 7:49 AM

Love the immediate protest votes of Horn after we missed the turn.

by echelonon 5/10/2025, 3:26 AM

I see this domain and immediately get excited.

by rwmjon 5/10/2025, 7:12 AM

Nice! There was a Daedalus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._H._Jones) column along the same lines back in the day. A bus where passengers could vote for how to steer, with the ones paying most money having the most votes. (https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b7f0cfb077d6ad0f094d665e2bca7072)

by gadtflyon 5/10/2025, 5:18 AM

Great old Twitch energy.

Badly needs inline chat to be complete.

by 4157983953on 5/23/2025, 5:40 PM

It wont work on my computer

by ffsm8on 5/10/2025, 6:58 AM

I'm missing a history of past votes. Maybe a sliding window of the last n votes that you participated in and how you voted - as well as how it resolved.

Another idea that comes to mind is a to foster solidarity between voters by maybe notifying you if there is someone that voted exactly like you for the last n votes. Might be harder to do unless you're syncing votes via webrtc already

by bibeloon 5/10/2025, 10:29 AM

the number of cool ideas this Neal guy has is too damn high

by dleeftinkon 5/10/2025, 5:22 AM

Fun idea! In between votes, the app could prefetch the next streetview frames, making it a bit more seamless once the vote has been cast?

by HanShotFirston 5/10/2025, 5:19 AM

The only thing I wish for is that the map showed the whole path taken since the website went live!

by bill123459on 5/20/2025, 1:26 PM

AGH why isn't it showing the street view??? It just shows the map.

by kylecazaron 5/10/2025, 12:12 PM

Cool.. Interesting that we are going "forward" using the rear street view image, giving the impression that we're in the wrong lane heading towards oncoming traffic

by rzzzton 5/10/2025, 9:36 AM

It looks like a game of chicken for minutes now (we are driving on the left side of the road, red car is on a collision course but somehow it can still maintain an even distance).

by aboundon 5/10/2025, 3:25 AM

I wanted to turn left off of Stow St (and so did everyone else it seems), but at the intersection, there were no left-facing arrows, so we're still on Stow St.

by 4157983953on 5/23/2025, 5:40 PM

Bro it doesn t work then again im on my school computer

by foobahhhhhon 5/10/2025, 9:03 AM

Tip: open in new tab. History entry per click!

by _QrEon 5/10/2025, 7:26 AM

I love the radio, that's a great touch.

by rison 5/10/2025, 10:43 AM

Let's take this thing to Canada.

by robertclauson 5/10/2025, 5:14 AM

I don't understand why this clown car can't u-turn on these streets...

by babbledabbleron 5/10/2025, 4:46 PM

I wonder how hard it would be to use AI to generatively interpolate the images so it could be a video stream.

by mcinton 5/10/2025, 5:53 AM

It needs to resolve faster if more people vote, based on a running average of voters, or sqrt of viewers present.

by lkrameron 5/10/2025, 4:55 PM

Great that it's stuck driving in the correct side of the road

by notpushkinon 5/10/2025, 12:27 PM

#VoteHonk

by paulddraperon 5/10/2025, 3:36 AM

Why does it vote every 30 feet, when there is only one option?

Seems very slow.