Internet Roadtrip: Vote to steer

142 memalign 27 5/7/2025, 5:50:15 AM neal.fun ↗

Comments (27)

ris · 2m ago
Let's take this thing to Canada.
bibelo · 16m ago
the number of cool ideas this Neal guy has is too damn high
ffsm8 · 3h ago
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

moritonal · 2h ago
Love the immediate protest votes of Horn after we missed the turn.
gadtfly · 5h ago
Great old Twitch energy.

Badly needs inline chat to be complete.

Maxion · 4h ago
Volume control needs to also be votable.
rzzzt · 1h ago
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).
hobofan · 3h ago
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)

higgins · 2h ago
he cached the planet
dleeftink · 5h ago
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?
rwmj · 3h ago
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)
echelon · 7h ago
I see this domain and immediately get excited.
abound · 7h ago
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.
HanShotFirst · 5h ago
The only thing I wish for is that the map showed the whole path taken since the website went live!
gadtfly · 4h ago
Does it not? Zoom out on the map.
Jarwain · 4h ago
I'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
foobahhhhh · 1h ago
Tip: open in new tab. History entry per click!
mcint · 4h ago
It needs to resolve faster if more people vote, based on a running average of voters, or sqrt of viewers present.
_QrE · 3h ago
I love the radio, that's a great touch.
robertclaus · 5h ago
I don't understand why this clown car can't u-turn on these streets...
paulddraper · 7h ago
Why does it vote every 30 feet, when there is only one option?

Seems very slow.

Jarwain · 7h ago
Well, it's a road trip! Whoever said road trips are fast?
euvin · 6h ago
Good point, but I wish I could swivel my head to enjoy the scenery at least.
greesil · 6h ago
Are we there yet?
phreack · 6h ago
We're closer than we were before!
insin · 4h ago
It's about the journey, not the destination
Jarwain · 4h ago
Also the vote timer is shorter if there's only one option!