Comments on: The Single Lane Superhighway

The Single Lane Superhighway

lubujackson — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:34:44 -0800

The Single Lane Superhighway is a simple website that lets you draw a car and join the parade of other drawn cars already on the road. Simple, yet sweetly engaging. Another interesting art project from Aaron Koblin, who has done several other notable social/data art projects (some of this, some of that, and some other things). Via waxy.

By: the young rope-rider

the young rope-rider — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:40:59 -0800

"exhaust" is awaiting approval! How fun, thank you!

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:41:23 -0800

Eagerly awaiting approval of Penismobile.

By: zardoz

zardoz — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:44:58 -0800

It's cute and all but..."awaiting approval"? So maybe my car will be approved...when? I'll just need to check back tomorrow? Next week? And my car will be there among how many others?

By: red clover

red clover — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:46:23 -0800

Yeah, I don't know if the approval lag is due to the website's owner being elsewhere or because the site is being slammed with requests, but either way it renders this unusable. Flagged. If this FPP is deleted, maybe repost in a week or two when the website isn't simultaneously being hit by everybody who reads Waxy. It seems like a neat idea.

By: xbonesgt

xbonesgt — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:49:43 -0800

in the span of about 20 seconds I saw both the 4chan Party Van and an Imperial Star Destroyer. That pretty much sums up the internet, I guess.

By: rebent

rebent — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:57:50 -0800

... Red Clover, just because you can't see your picture on the website doesn't mean it's a terrible post. See also: All the other fricking posts about artists, community art, etc, where (get this) you also can't see your artwork

By: treepour

treepour — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:59:13 -0800

Yeah, I don't know if the approval lag is due to the website's owner being elsewhere or because the site is being slammed with requests, but either way it renders this unusable. Flagged. Why? I just assumed you don't get to see your own car on the road unless you're very lucky, but you do get see what others have contributed and others will get to see yours, so long as there's nothing offensive/nsf kids. Which I found perfectly charming, and I quite enjoyed watching the parade for awhile.

By: unliteral

unliteral — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:03:46 -0800

There were some very nice vehicles there. I spoiled that by contributing.

By: rebent

rebent — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:13:37 -0800

oh hey if you click on a car it will draw it for you :)

By: Fnarf

Fnarf — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:27:44 -0800

I am shamed by the many, many well-drawn, interesting cars. Mine all look like lumps of gravy.

By: MegoSteve

MegoSteve — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:28:44 -0800

I drew Wile E. Coyote chasing the Road Runner.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:41:32 -0800

I saw a person on a segway.

By: bleep

bleep — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:41:48 -0800

Apparently I draw a car the same way many people learned how to draw a car. We're the box people. Mine is called "O hai" and it's the one without wheels because I didn't realize you were supposed to draw wheels lol.

By: Mikey-San

Mikey-San — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:42:24 -0800

btw, dinocar is fucking awesome, you guys

By: bleep

bleep — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:42:36 -0800

My favorite ones so far are the creeping dinosaur skeleton and the two people chasing each other.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:44:12 -0800

this one gets to the point. I like that, when you actually view it the designer tried something else, erased it, and then drew what you finally see.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:46:53 -0800

Also, this was pretty brilliant.

By: Mikey-San

Mikey-San — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:02:33 -0800

ok i made one

By: vespabelle

vespabelle — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:24:34 -0800

yay, my banana-car was approved! but I'm totally jealous of whoever did lowly. A much better Richard Scary-mobile than mine.

By: lekvar

lekvar — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:37:11 -0800

Lowly is my girlfriend's creation, we've been giving her Wacom tablet a workout on this site. Way too much fun.

By: KokuRyu

KokuRyu — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:41:38 -0800

I drew mine driving backwards. D'oh.

By: unliteral

unliteral — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:52:34 -0800

Wow! over 500 vehicles added since this thread was posted.

By: lekvar

lekvar — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:38:08 -0800

We've done quite a few so far, but only a few have been accepted to the Great Commute. We both drew face cars that didn't make the cut, and I suggested that there is probably an algorrithm filtering for potentially naughty submissions. So, in the interests of science, my girlfriend is submitting as many Boobiemobiles as she can.

By: mazola

mazola — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:02:37 -0800

It's cute and all but..."awaiting approval"? So maybe my car will be approved...when? I'll just need to check back tomorrow? Next week? And my car will be there among how many others? Dude, Where's My Car?

By: bubukaba

bubukaba — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:40:10 -0800

FWIW I just drew one and saw it adorably driving along the first time I reloaded the page.

By: 5_13_23_42_69_666

5_13_23_42_69_666 — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:46:39 -0800

this one is awesome!

By: mykescipark

mykescipark — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:34:35 -0800

This made me laugh so uncontrollably that my hubby actually had to come over and look at the screen. He walked away again, registering absolutely no response.

By: TheSecretDecoderRing

TheSecretDecoderRing — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:41:45 -0800

Great, now all week I'll be walking around thinking "Oh! That would be a great car idea!" This could be trouble. My favorite contributions are the non-car modes of transportation, such as the flying carpet, the rickshaw, and the two unicyclists. For the record, I've contributed Autobot Jazz, Luke's landspeeder (although I wasn't the only one), and a space shuttle on a crawler. One side effect is that weird post-warping effect, like with Guitar Hero.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:08:41 -0800

heh

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:09:53 -0800

Huh, this is apparently all being done with SVG, rather then canvas.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:15:52 -0800

this one is pretty impressive

By: hat_eater

hat_eater — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 03:38:00 -0800

Five seconds after I submitted, a "croc" rolled in. People just lack imagination!

By: MegoSteve

MegoSteve — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:11:49 -0800

This is my cat's new favorite web site.

By: box

box — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:47:59 -0800

Finally, a good reason for this widescreen monitor.

By: unliteral

unliteral — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:18:04 -0800

When this thread started there were 300 and something cars. There are now 7,735 vehicles.

By: unliteral

unliteral — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:50:49 -0800

11,383 now - that's over 1,000 vehicles a day.

By: unliteral

unliteral — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:56:29 -0800

This thread will close soon, so I'll just put this updated vehicle count here - "There are more than 22,000 cars on the highway right now."