#roadtrip Canada

[shotsonsight]

Peyto lake

Alberta, august 2018.

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[yekokataa]

do you guys know about the internet roadtrip? right now somewhere between 500 and 900 people are collectively 'driving' a car on google street view trying to make it to canada. it's fun i recommend it

[cogumellow]

fall light in b.c. // squamish, canada // september 2022 // ©

[sommerlanding]

roadtrip

[deejayphoto]

Island Beauty

[cadere-art]

White rocks on the salt river / Rochers blancs au bord du fleuve

[lemonsizzle]

The last few weeks I've been driving on the internet roadtrip and had a blast. The mayhem. The honking for the dead. The random statements like "we have Pringles in the back". The different radio stations that come in and out of reach. The slowness. The whimsy. The feeling if community. And the fact that at some point there were a bunch of animals in the car also made it easier to draw.

[wolfcat-hybrid]

i havent been internet roadtripping can you tell me how you got denyed entry to canada. does the website just have usa data.

I may have been doing one of my classic lies when I blamed border control for not letting us into Canada. I mean, the existence of controlled borders is definitely the main reason this happened in the first place, but they aren't directly responsible.

What happened is, the car can only take routes that have been mapped on google street view. Not every road has been mapped, and sometimes coverage can be spotty.

There weren't any border crossings with great coverage in Maine. They all had gaps that the car wouldn't be able to jump. The crossing in Limestone had a smaller gap, and through testing (including confirmation by the actual developer) it was determined that the car COULD make the jump across this specific check point.

We got to that check point tonight, and no dice. We had to turn around.

The devastation at the border happened around ~1am EST, so making a new plan (and figuring out why the Limestone crossing failed in the first place) has been a bit slow, since most folks are asleep. For the last hour or so the car has been basically circling around the crossing, buying time while those awake theory craft and debate new plans.

I don't think we're going to come to any conclusions tonight, personally, unless the night shift manages to solve the mystery.

I'm gonna go to bed for the night, we'll see how things stand in the morning.

UPDATE: The current theory I see floating around is that an update that let the car go a bit faster may have caused the issue. There seem to be ongoing attempts to retry the crossing to see if we can brute force it to work.

[johnandrasjaqobis]

Internet roadtrip update: we made it to Limestone, the one place remotely nearby we are able to cross into Canada. but.

due to a game update that let us go faster on straightaways, we end up on the wrong side of the road and the gap is too big there to jump. so we simply turn right back around again.

our beloved captain summed it up nicely:

(it is the funniest possible outcome tbh, the hype as we approached the border was so strong the chat was going at light speed and then it just. stopped us. there's still ongoing attempts to get back on the right path to allow the jump, but otherwise we might have to wait for Neal to return after the weekend for another update)

[starry-beetle]

I put Junior in the Internet Roadtrip van :)

[shotsonsight]

Silos à grain

Somewhere in Alberta, august 2018.

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[yekokataa]

my god, denied entry at the border. after all that. you have no idea how this feels

[draconicace]

crashed into a hotel

[cogumellow]

winter driving realities // quebec, canada // 2009 // ©

[forestduck]

Jan 4, 2025 - #canada #britishcolumbia #canadianrockies #roadtrip #nature

[deejayphoto]

Black and White