Whoa, this is so cool because you can pick a real world location you're familiar with, and role play driving around, and you know you can reach any destination you imagine. It's going to be there. So fun.
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Google Maps 2D Driving Simulator
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#12>No WASD
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#13Whoa, this is so cool because you can pick a real world location you're familiar with, and role play driving around, and you know you can reach any destination you imagine. It's going to be there. So fun.
It let me see how fast I can get to work if I drive 120 km per hour. :)
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#14Neat! Of course the first thing I tried to do was see whether you could drive though buildings. You can.
Same. It's neat, but I don't think you can call it a simulator without collision detection.
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#15Driving around Mountain View again gave me a big nostalgia trip. I miss that place.
I fly out of there tomorrow. I'm not going to miss it (except for the excellent food).
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#16Whoa, this is so cool because you can pick a real world location you're familiar with, and role play driving around, and you know you can reach any destination you imagine. It's going to be there. So fun.
It let me see how fast I can get to work if I drive 120 km per hour. :)
This, combined with driving through a few walls and parks seemed to speed up my commute considerably.
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#17That's pretty awesome. Would be cool if you could upload a google tracks file and have it show you're route with the car.
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#18Rotate the map, rather than the car. With OpenGL in the browser, you can get the graphics card to do it.
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#19Next step. Make it 3D using Street View. Theoretically, you have enough 3D information in there to detect building collisions. Also, Oculus ;).
Or add collisions with stationary vehicles and walls. That would be cool.
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#20I found I can still remember how to drive to my exes's