Autio: Road Trip & Travel App

I tried this app out when I was driving from Rhode Island to North Carolina and then to Arizona and then back to Rhode Island. It made the time go by so much faster and kept my mind occupied as I was traveling alone. I learned so many things about history and people and culture that I had had no idea of. Now I have all of these places that I want to go back to that I learned about on my trip. There’s so much history that can’t be learned unless someone or something, like this app, shows it to you. I found some inaccuracies, one of the women’s voices kinda went right through me, and I struggle to find where I am located on the app so that I can see the places that are around me. I have used this at home since I’ve returned from my trip and it’s even more fascinating and disturbing that there’s so much history in my local area that I haven’t learned. I would highly recommend this to anyone who spends time on the road.

I’d love to give this a 5 star and review and maybe in time once the bugs are works out I will. However, the information on many “stories” is rather inaccurate. I will give one as example here. The story on East Stroudsburg, PA states it was originally named “Danville” when it was actually named “Dansbury”. Danville is a completely different town in PA. Also, you reference the historic train depot in East Stroudsburg which is a rather significant piece of their history. You also wrongly named that as the Pocono Depot I believe. The train depot is actually Dansbury Depot, always was and still is as it ran its last route through there in 1970. Some very large inaccuracies on this topic here. Lastly, once you complete one story it automatically feeds into the next and you get “charged” for a second story which was not the intended. Some large bugs and inaccuracies to work through before I can rate this higher. I give two stars because the idea of it is great, but it needs to be factual.

I am a startup lawyer and I help a ton of app developers. I have pitched this exact app to a bunch of them because I wanted to see an app like this made. The teams all concluded the same thing: it would take a Herculean effort before any revenues would come. This would be a passion project more than a simple utility application. I believe that is correct but I think the team at here hear have found the right people who are passionate about learning and sharing because this app is excellent. The experience is great and the content is solid. This is a perfect application for someone who travels a lot and tends to have their nose buried in a guidebook or loves reading the plaques at historic sites. I’m so excited this app is here.