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Neat! But I can't say I'm a fan of the analog TV static. That's mixing the metaphor.

Reminds me of the Truck Simulator games that had support for streaming local stations over Internet radio in game.

i love the static!
A lot of FM radios produce noise when scanning between stations.
Yes, but a different noise.
There goes my day... driving around Amsterdam, it's lovely.
This is amazing. I love going through the youtube videos like this where its just people driving through a city. Feels like traveling, and if you are traveling to a city it can be a good way to familiarize yourself with it before you go.

The addition of the radio station just makes it feel that much more immersive.

This is great - wonderful sense of presence, especially with the road noise mixed in. It would be really fantastic in VR.

(Also, 50 different cities and a couple stations for each? That's no small amount of work!)

Super cool! If by some chance the creator of this is reading these comments, The Toronto drive brought up "WNED Classical" which isn't a Toronto station, it's out of Buffalo.
I guess that's even more realistic then. Can you actually hear the Buffalo station in Toronto?
I used to love getting the US ATCS tv stations out of NY state. Universal Sports was awesome, 24hr a day amateur sports, then NBC bought it and I moved.
For a time, free OTA Universal Sports was probably my most watched channel. Then, as you say, NBC bought it and most of the content moved to cable channels or behind online paywalls at NBCSports. The NBC Olympic Channel captures the vibe of the old station pretty well if it's available to you. I know YouTube TV has it.
hmmm, yes, good point, I think you can.
Street noise is way too loud.
In some cities. Sound volume normalization/tweaking is needed.
The Havana stream is pretty cool if you're into classic cars. Quite a few just on the streets, since the embargo basically stopped US car imports after 1960.
That's great, really cool!

I wonder why it's deployed to Heroku. Isn't it just static html/css/js?

I clicked play on mobile and I immediately got an advertisement to get a quote for a new kitchen?

Immediately closed. Disappointing.

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Got the same here. Something is up on mobile.
Same here, but on desktop. Every Radio channel in Berlin started with an advertisement for dental service.
This is cool but can we please have an option to disable or lower the volume of the white noise? its jarring and not at all like radio noise
Oh my goodness, it even has the UPS trucks and random Uber/Lyft drivers blocking the driving lanes in San Francisco. That's what I call realism, it's bringing back PTSD for me.

Fantastic project, works really well, almost too well!

cool experience, but small gripe : the grimier parts of Los Angeles are a million times more fun to drive through than a loop through 'the Hills', Malibu, or Beverly Hills.

I'd hate foreigners to think that's what LA is like, not by a long shot. Driving through LA is a lot more like driving through a huge industrial area with a small metropolitan ultra-lux oasis every few miles.

If someone wants to get the real feel for Los Angeles, in my opinion of course, jump on Google Earth, start at El Segundo and Crenshaw Blvd. and 'drive' south until you hit San Pedro.

THAT's a true Los Angeles drive. (imo, of course).

For an even fuller 'California' experience, drive up PCH afterwards and have dinner on the coast somewhere nice.

Coming from Poland, a 30 minute drive through a random industrial area in LA to pick up the keys to an AirBnb days was one of my most horrifying moments in life.

That was my first time in the US. Getting behind the wheel to drive through the dark, narrow streets at dusk only brought memories from crime TV shows, where bad things are guaranteed in such places.

To my relief, only good things happened :)

One of the most striking things for me, as a Brit, was DTLA. There are streets of prestine opulence, fountains and statues, then on the opposite side of the same street tents and broken down shops that seem to be permanently closed and graffiti'd.

Also the crazy people yelling.

It's just jarring how close the inequality is, it can be both extremes on the same street.

Click the city name a few times to cycle through alternate videos the creator selected. Found one for LA that was more in line with what you described.
Thank you for making this. I didn't realize how much I miss visiting London. If the creator is reading this - can you please add Dublin as well? If this is on github, happy to send a PR with this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX8bD5tpQWQ
What is the London radio sound to your ears? I would have thought Radio 3 or 4 would be iconic London but they're not on here!
I have little to no experience with London radio, I spend most of time chatting with cabbies when I’m in a black cab. What I miss is seeing pub, pret, pub, pret, pub, pret :)
Kiss FM or Capital FM. I can still hear the jingle for capital FM! or perhaps LBC 97.3
Oh god, homesickness is rife, it's going through areas I used to frequent really often too. Even passed my old apartment and workplace at one point (I cheated and looked at the video source).

The Stockholm one seems randomised, but the London one only has one video, quite odd.

To piggyback off of this, if by chance the author sees this and is still looking to add cities, maybe Austin would be an easy addition? KUTX streams their “Austin Music Experience” channel https://play.kutx.org/index.html as well as the stations you’d get on the radio, and there’s some videos that might fit (mostly downtown, but still) https://youtu.be/VKouHxAtC5E
Holy Jesus, this is amazing. It took me back to moments in my life but I just going through the stories and the sounds of the radio.

Incredible artwork.

EDIT: I did notice that some switches didn't correctly switch some of the channels. I was in Antalya and definitely listening to some American channel and the same for Bombay because I am confident no one there talks about possums and drywall :D

EDIT 2: Also, lots of Turkey. Loving it.

I think this is a great way to teach young children about the world in a way that resonates with them. So much of their observation of the outside world occurs from the seat of a car (for better or for worse). It's a big part of their universe; they often pay such close attention to every little detail, so the differences around the world should be immediately obvious to them.
I love finding ways to talk about the world with my son, when i travel for work i get a small souvenir just so i have a physical object we can talk about from the place i’ve just been. Regarding your comment and after watching the London video it reminded me of our first trip as a family to London. We took electric black taxis all around the different sites in central London. I hadn’t planned on doing that but we had a tough stretch on the central line so the taxi was a welcome upgrade. Anyway my son loved the taxi, it is silent, has huge windows, glass roof and you really get to see London from inside. We did day time trips and ones at night. It was so good i tried to game taxi ranks to keep getting them. I think its good for children to have a worldview which is easy with youtube today.
What this has scammy popups when browsing on a phone?
Agreed. I got a popup about kitchen installation. What's happening with this app on mobile?
So good! It's a more immersive version of radio.garden that popped up this week on HN.
This is amazing !! thank you for creating it
Going into fullscreen(F11) causes the video to zoom(i would say 50%) and causes a degradation in quality and a loss of field of view.
Came here to type this. Mine zoomed in much farther, but I would have liked to eliminate the browser mess.

Otherwise, this is very, very cool. Thank you to the author.