"reset" button has been added to "settings"

Currently there is no accessible way to reset. You can try run "reset()" from the console though.

Some of the photos are not taken from the road, which I love, but they all come from the same API.

Think, most browsers limit number of peers to 256. Not sure what happens after exceeding the limit. Never tested, honestly.

Having 256 people on a call must be a crazy experience, but the app only connects you to other drivers in vicinity, the radius is about 100 km.

Thanks for trying it out!

The frontend is built with Svelte. This was my first time using the framework and I found their website super helpful: https://svelte.dev/docs

Used Mapbox API and geolib (https://github.com/manuelbieh/geolib/) for building routes and for other geospatial tasks.

"Talkie" was built with simple-peer (https://github.com/feross/simple-peer) and WebRTC. Great tutorial can be found on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/API/WebRT...

On the backend I use Vercel's serverless functions which are mostly acting as trivial proxies for various open API's.

Feel free to email me if you need more info.

Thanks for all the info. Quite helpful!

Maybe you have the "vehicle" application open? It generate grey noise to simulate background noise in real vehicle. Can be turned off by closing the window.

There is no way to set current location and destination currently.

Starting point is always the geographical center of the US near Lebanon, Kansas. The route and general direction are not pre-determined and depend on the vehicle choice. There is no destination really, you can stop at any time.

Available radios change as you progress depending on your location in the game.

Inside there is a JSON of the application state with LZ-compressed values.

The destination is not pre-determined and depends on the vehicle you chose.

Everyone start at the geographical center of the United States in Lebanon, Kansas and later statistically most likely find themselves on one of the coasts. Just because of the overall direction of the highways.

Ended up in Anchorage once. Must say rural Canadian craigslist is wild.

Are you saying the car picks random options at each intersection?

Not quite. Initially, it gets general direction, say the West Coast. Then, depending on vehicle choice, it has a list of preferred waypoint categories. After arriving to a waypoint it makes a decision where to go next.

For example, if you picked a camper van, your next stop may be a gas station (for snacks), after that it may decide to head for an RV-park, then for some natural attraction and so on.

Thanks for checking out the website and for the feedback! Compiling everyone's requests into one ranked list right now. Showing the number of users nearby is the most requested one and I love the idea.

By the way, the weather shown in "status" is real, comes from openweathermap.org