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Internet Roadtrip: Vote to steer
- abound 1y agoI 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.
- echelon 1y agoI see this domain and immediately get excited.
- paulddraper 1y agoWhy does it vote every 30 feet, when there is only one option? Seems very slow.
- Jarwain 1y agoWell, it's a road trip! Whoever said road trips are fast?
- euvin 1y agoGood point, but I wish I could swivel my head to enjoy the scenery at least.
- greesil 1y agoAre we there yet?
- phreack 1y agoWe're closer than we were before!
- insin 1y agoIt's about the journey, not the destination
- Jarwain 1y agoAlso the vote timer is shorter if there's only one option!
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- robertclaus 1y agoI don't understand why this clown car can't u-turn on these streets...
- gadtfly 1y agoGreat old Twitch energy. Badly needs inline chat to be complete.
- Maxion 1y agoVolume control needs to also be votable.
- HanShotFirst 1y agoThe only thing I wish for is that the map showed the whole path taken since the website went live!
- gadtfly 1y agoDoes it not? Zoom out on the map.
- Jarwain 1y agoI've found it to not work consistently. When I first started it showed the whole thing, but after playing for a while and some refreshes it only shows the path that this browser has seen. So if I switch apps for a while with it running in the bg, then come back, it skips straight from where we were when I last played to where we are now
- dleeftink 1y agoFun idea! In between votes, the app could prefetch the next streetview frames, making it a bit more seamless once the vote has been cast?
- mcint 1y agoIt needs to resolve faster if more people vote, based on a running average of voters, or sqrt of viewers present.
- ffsm8 1y agoI'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
- rwmj 1y agoNice! There was a Daedalus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._H._Jones 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 https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b7f0cfb077d6ad0f094d665e2bca7072)
- hobofan 1y agoOh 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)
- higgins 1y agohe cached the planet
- nosrepa 1y agoCACHE THE PLANET!
- Boogie_Man 1y ago1. Query the server for the URL 2. Use JavaScript to publish it to the webpage in an iframe 3. ???? 4. Profit You know our boy Neil isn't paying for shit lmao he's a real one
- caseyy 1y agoA clever trick would be to cache all options in the 8-second voting window and then blast them out to the clients. By the time the vote concludes, the clients would already have the image of the next step, and the server would have had 8 seconds to send that to 400+ people. Plus, only a few maps API calls. Though I'm not sure the StreetView API allows caching. Having worked with maps APIs in the past, I know they often don't allow it.
- moron4hire 1y agoIt is not clear what, exactly, they consider caching. There are caches everywhere, some of them practically outside of my application's control. Are those a violation of the ToS? Ask the ToS says is "caching". They also have to catch you, first.
- jdranczewski 1y agoI'm late to the thread, but Neal actually uses the embed API here, which is free with no limits. The website has two Street View iframes, and it fades between them when the new pano is loaded. Pretty funny way to avoid a hilariously large bill!
- _QrE 1y agoI love the radio, that's a great touch.
- moritonal 1y agoLove the immediate protest votes of Horn after we missed the turn.
- foobahhhhh 1y agoTip: open in new tab. History entry per click!
- rzzzt 1y agoIt 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).
- bibelo 1y agothe number of cool ideas this Neal guy has is too damn high
- ris 1y agoLet's take this thing to Canada.
- kylecazar 1y agoCool.. 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
- macNchz 1y agoSomehow appropriate for a crowdsourced experience of driving.
- notpushkin 1y ago#VoteHonk
- babbledabbler 1y agoI wonder how hard it would be to use AI to generatively interpolate the images so it could be a video stream.
- lkramer 1y agoGreat that it's stuck driving in the correct side of the road
- bill123459 1y agoAGH why isn't it showing the street view??? It just shows the map.
- 4157983953 1y agoIt wont work on my computer
- 4157983953 1y agoBro it doesn t work then again im on my school computer