idea, we should make a "feel good" website similar to https://slowroads.io/ that literally lets you autopilot your car through every road in new york. hell scale it up to every road in the world. have a system to track how many kms / miles has been driven and the drivers with the highest scores. Even Ad companies at some point would be interested in showing ads every few kms which can be circumvented by a paid sub

I like this idea. I've often used StreetView to go back to places where I used to live or work to see what they look like now. This could be an extended version of the same thing.

I wonder how many times he was mugged or shot at doing his walk?

NYC's homicide rate is lower than that of the USA as a whole. Violence is very avoidable, especially during the daytime.

Amazing project. I would not be surprised if https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Transcendence_3100_Mile_R... was a natural next "step".

This is inspiring.

Over a decade of commitment to the task itself, diligent blogging of the whole experience, and a website design that brings me back to my favorite time on the web. Beautiful.

Wandrer [0] is a good site if you want to do something like this in your own town. It integrates with Strava and automatically imports your walks/rides and tracks your progress on the map, which lets you see where you’ve been and what streets you still need to conquer.

It doesn’t have any routing features, so you’ll still have to plan your own routes, but it is pretty mobile friendly.

0: https://wandrer.earth

HN-favourite Tom7 made a great video about running every street in his native Pittsburgh and tracking it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c8i5SABqwU

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34168284

[Edit for format] Selectively using per capita rate ignores density, misleading for street-walking risks where per mile metrics show higher danger:

  City          Homicides (2024)  Street Miles  Homicides per street mile
  Chicago       573               4000          0.143
  Philadelphia  246               2500          0.098
  NYC           377               6000          0.063
  Dallas        220               3900          0.056
  Houston       322               6000          0.054
  Los Angeles   260               6500          0.040
  San Antonio   160               4000          0.040
  Phoenix       190               5000          0.038
  Jacksonville  140               3900          0.036
  San Diego     35                2800          0.013
  US Total      -                 -             0.0046
  US Rural      -                 -             0.0006