https://devpost.com/software/lowly
Every year, thousands of car accidents happen due to speeding teenagers.
$lowly gamifies safe driving to encourage positive driving behavior. Teens can score points for safe driving which can be transferred into monetary awards by their parents.
We used node.js as the framework for the web app. We used a combination of OpenStreetMaps' and Smartcar's APIs to track users, speed limits, vehicle speed, and location.
Since we did not have an API that tracked actual vehicle speed, we figure out how to most accurately calculate speed based on distance traveled and time elapsed.
-Developing our own method to measure vehicle speed -Making a good-looking frontend
Many of us were new to node.js. It was exciting to learn. More generally, it was a great learning experience on teamwork and how to think outside of the box when you don't have all the resources you need.
We hope to incorporate features that can transfer money from parents to teens based on our point system
Function that polls /location and /odometer
store this info in json object
array of json objects {car_id: [ {time: Date, lat: double, lon: double, speed: double, speeding: bool, }, ]} Key is time stamp value is location
keep track of points in dict: {car_id : points, ...}