[HN Gopher] Internet Roadtrip: Vote to steer
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Internet Roadtrip: Vote to steer
Author : memalign
Score : 203 points
Date : 2025-05-07 05:50 UTC (3 days ago)
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| abound wrote:
| 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.
| echelon wrote:
| I see this domain and immediately get excited.
| paulddraper wrote:
| Why does it vote every 30 feet, when there is only one option?
|
| Seems very slow.
| Jarwain wrote:
| Well, it's a road trip! Whoever said road trips are fast?
| euvin wrote:
| Good point, but I wish I could swivel my head to enjoy the
| scenery at least.
| greesil wrote:
| Are we there yet?
| phreack wrote:
| We're closer than we were before!
| insin wrote:
| It's about the journey, not the destination
| Jarwain wrote:
| Also the vote timer is shorter if there's only one option!
| robertclaus wrote:
| I don't understand why this clown car can't u-turn on these
| streets...
| gadtfly wrote:
| Great old Twitch energy.
|
| Badly needs inline chat to be complete.
| Maxion wrote:
| Volume control needs to also be votable.
| HanShotFirst wrote:
| The only thing I wish for is that the map showed the whole path
| taken since the website went live!
| gadtfly wrote:
| Does it not? Zoom out on the map.
| Jarwain wrote:
| 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
| dleeftink wrote:
| 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?
| mcint wrote:
| It needs to resolve faster if more people vote, based on a
| running average of voters, or sqrt of viewers present.
| ffsm8 wrote:
| 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
| rwmj wrote:
| 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)
| hobofan wrote:
| 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 wrote:
| he cached the planet
| Boogie_Man wrote:
| 1. 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 wrote:
| A 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 wrote:
| It 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.
| _QrE wrote:
| I love the radio, that's a great touch.
| moritonal wrote:
| Love the immediate protest votes of Horn after we missed the
| turn.
| foobahhhhh wrote:
| Tip: open in new tab. History entry per click!
| rzzzt wrote:
| 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).
| bibelo wrote:
| the number of cool ideas this Neal guy has is too damn high
| ris wrote:
| Let's take this thing to Canada.
| kylecazar wrote:
| 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
| macNchz wrote:
| Somehow appropriate for a crowdsourced experience of driving.
| notpushkin wrote:
| #VoteHonk
| babbledabbler wrote:
| I wonder how hard it would be to use AI to generatively
| interpolate the images so it could be a video stream.
| lkramer wrote:
| Great that it's stuck driving in the correct side of the road
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