This grad-school project by a few California State University students is fairly well-explained in this video:
Here’s a summary:
The Mother Road is a Multimedia Graduate team working on a project thesis about Route 66. Taking an actual car, a 1969 VW Bug and modifying it with sensors and monitors, we hope to create a truly unique multimedia experience for our users. We plan to have the project complete by June of 2010. Any guidance, help or advice would be welcome.
The Mother Road
Graduate Project Team
California State University, Hayward, CA
I’ll post more information about this project when I can get it. It sounds intriguing, but I suspect they’ll need more time. The June 2010 launch date sounds a bit optimistic for something this complex.
Also, Sandi Wheaton, with her ongoing time-lapse photography project, is probably going to come as close as a virtual Route 66 road trip as anyone — at least until Google Street View documents all 2,200 miles of the road, which seems inevitable.
I drove 66 back in 1978 east in a yellow VW bug. It was a 1974 Super Beetle. That was a great drive, since it was impossible to get comfortable in that car.
I still remember the drive. Went non stop from Anaheim, CA to Tucumcari, NM. I arrived there at 6a and stayed at a hotel, then hit the road at 2p, going straight to southern Missouri, where I stayed in a real funky cabin somewhere that night. Then went thru to Chicago the next day and straight for 36 hours to Oswego, NY.
I recall being so tired driving thru Oklahoma at night that I stuck my head out of the window trying to wake up and was hit several times by flying tumbleweeds during a storm.
Those were the days…..
I think.