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A small note: 80 miles an hour on windy roads, driving in the middle of the road, is not slow and chill. That's "I want to die" fast and reckless... maybe have two autodrive settings. "slow and chill" going appropriate speeds and driving correctly (left/right toggle?) and "landscape zoomies" or something for what it currently does. Right now auto pilot is literally stress inducing =D

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Just assume the roads are closed to everyone else but you, the VIP.

As for the speed, it’s nowhere near ‘i want to die’ reckless for those long sweepers and a lot of people do find the rhythm of that sort of driving to be relaxing. The other component is simply that the sensation of speed is always much lower than it would be in real life in these kind of things.

There is a cruise control option to the lower right. You can choose a slower speed

Sure, but if the title of the site is "slow roads" and it's billed as "slow and chill", then careening down a road with half your car in the oncoming traffic lane at 80 miles an hour by default is not a good default.

It's a bit like a "ambient study music" site that plays darkstep with flashing lights when you press "just play me something to study to" =)

Ha, true. I'll see to making it a little less reckless, and probably give a setting to have it follow a lane, if it isn't too difficult. The idea of a "slow road" is more about taking the scenic route - back roads like these tend to have some of the highest speed limits, at least in the UK.

i found the bus averaging 80km/h pretty realistic. what felt wrong was the acceleration. it would go to max speed on a straight road even if there was a curve just a few hundred meters ahead. perhaps reducing the acceleration when autodrive is on will help.

maybe you can add a self learning component. every time the vehicle bumps the barrier, it was going/accelerating to fast.

> maybe you can add a self learning component

Basic physics is also pretty applicable here. ;)

acceleration = velocity^2 /radius

with a simplified

max friction force = coefficient of friction * car weight

And to tie them together

force = mass * acceleration

Here in Canada 80kph is the maximum for back roads, but when it's twisty by nature, or it's straight with a few turns but has a cliff to one side, that road is a 60kph road. Add most of the time anything S-bend or hard turns will be on a 40kph advisory.

No going 115+ in a blind corner over a road that will launch you off the side of a mountain if you steer poorly =D

Don't know whereabouts you are in Canada, but in BC and Alberta all speed limits are excruciatingly low. So much so that it's a norm to drive 20km/h over the limit on the highways and the police won't bother at all until it's an excess of that.

This also makes for an excellent emergency budget fill-ups at the end of the quarter - just set a photoradar in the 50 zone where everyone everyday go 80 and, voila, - no deficit.

> back roads like these tend to have some of the highest speed limits

I assume that's because there are some roads still left where they're trusting drivers' common sense to not try to drive as fast as they're theoretically allowed to.

For real slow and chill, I propose a third setting - "Medieval handcart" https://youtu.be/RlcuPPPXY3w

That's ~130km/h for those on the other side of the world... which is a normal average speed on the Autobahn.

Is the Autobahn windy?

It is, if you stick your head out...

Ditto for France and Italy.

If you read "slow and chill" as an imperative, not adjectives, then it works just fine.

You may prefer the other terrain. At the bottom left of the screen you can switch away from the hills. The other road makes more sense to be flying down the middle.

Yeah, I love how it's called "slow roads", and the car is just zipping at insane speeds.

Anyway, good job, actually cool!

even autodrive managed to crash into hill on the side of the road on me, hah.

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