The 101 Plays Itself
Five lanes of LA highway turned into an instrument
Details
- External ID
- 1255982
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- The 101 Plays Itself
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 20, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 106
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.986957451357708
- Tags
- Music, Cars
- Fetched at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
A live Caltrans traffic camera on the US-101 in Studio City, playing itself as music in your browser. Real traffic on the southbound 101, this minute. Every car that crosses the line plays a note, and the music is being made in your browser as they go past.
Enrichment
- Theme
- audio and music production tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- interactive music generator powered by highway traffic data
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It consumes a publicly accessible Caltrans HLS/RTSP camera feed, runs lightweight in-browser or server-side computer vision (e.g., OpenCV.js or simple motion/tripwire detection), and triggers Web Audio API synthesis.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 51 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 52 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 320 days after the earliest competitor.
- Every MUNI, BART and Caltrain in SF on a Live Map · hn · 2026-08-15 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Calculator Music · hn · 2026-05-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Realtime socket based music instruments · hn · 2025-11-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- TOP10music.today · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- GuitarRoll · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Songware · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- rotation · ph · 2026-09-08 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.34
- gigs.monster · ph · 2026-09-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.34
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- No other launches for this product.
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