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.
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.
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.
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.
It takes pictures automatically as you progress. For the current speed you can check the "vehicle" application. There is no fuel data, but you can read tailpipe CO2 emissions in "metrics".
Back when I worked at Samara (Aribnb's R&D) we needed to generate a dataset with more or less realistic road trip routes. With stops on the way and realistic destinations. Working on that and then exploring the results was fun and made me realise I could build it for everyone's fun too. That's from technical side, but also my wonderful 5 years in the United States and all the trips we had inspired me from sentimental side too.
Only tried Spain and a little bit of France so far. These parts of Europe seemed more urbanized than the US where some areas are still really wild and desolated.
There was a short outage. Had to upgrade a plan to allow more peers. It's back and I just chatted with someone very nice from Brooklyn, NY and few other people listening. Extremely intimidating for me as an introvert though.
During the setup it offers to choose a vehicle. Think, motorcycle is the fastest. EV produces the least tailpipe CO2. Vehicle choice also affects route preferences.