Press Kit
Cars & Coast (carsandcoast.com) is a free, live map of Monterey Car Week and the Big Sur coast, built by a small independent team on the Peninsula. Everything below is free to use with credit to carsandcoast.com. Questions / interviews: hello@carsandcoast.com.
Five stories you can write from this page
Monterey County banned parking around Bixby Creek Bridge this summer (≈900 ft north to 700 ft south, through mid-2027). Our free enforcement layer draws the exact zone, reroutes visitors to the legal Hurricane Point pullout, and flags the Rocky Creek one-way signal — a ready-made visual for your coverage. See the layer →
One map of the sourced enforcement picture: last year's sideshow flashpoints, license-plate-reader counts by city (Monterey 37, Seaside 30 — official transparency portals), Seaside's exhaust sound meter, tow policies. Every zone carries its source link.
carsandcoast.com/live is a self-running broadcast: live coast webcam, 3D circuit flyovers, the day's schedule, car sightings as they're pinned — narrated by an AI commentary voice generated on a garage GPU. No crew, no studio.
Spectators photograph exotic cars on the map; an AI vision model verifies the make and model and awards "catches" — F40, 250 GTO, Porsche 917 among the 21 legends. A collection game played on the real streets of the Peninsula. The garage →
The full Aug 7–16 schedule — concours, auctions, races, cars & coffee — verified against official sources, with parking notes, a subscribable calendar, with one-tap directions and rideshare links. The board →
Fast facts
- Free, no signup, no app — works in any browser, installable as a PWA.
- 30+ live data layers: events, traffic, transit, ships, planes, weather, fire, surf, enforcement.
- Live PTZ webcam over Monterey Bay with viewer-controlled presets.
- 3D terrain flyovers of Laguna Seca's Corkscrew and the Big Sur coast.
- Independent and self-funded on the Monterey Peninsula. Not affiliated with any event organizer.
Assets & embeds
Screenshots and clips: use anything on the site, or grab the share card images — Car Week board · the coast in 3D. Live demos to link or capture: Corkscrew 3D · /live channel.
Want the webcam, map, schedule, or live channel ON your site? Copy-paste iframes: carsandcoast.com/embed — free with credit.
Data sources & credits
Every enforcement zone and closure on the map carries its own source link in its popup, so the data stays traceable and correctable. Standing sources we rely on and gratefully credit:
- BigSurKate — the indispensable authority on Highway 1 conditions and Big Sur road life; background for our Bixby and turnout guidance.
- Caltrans District 5 — closures, construction, chain controls, highway cameras.
- County of Monterey — the Bixby Bridge parking ordinance and public records.
- Monterey County Now and KSBW Action News 8 — enforcement reporting cited on the map.
- Flock Safety transparency portals — official per-city license-plate-reader counts.
- NOAA, NWS, USGS, Open-Meteo, OpenStreetMap contributors, MST — live weather, marine, quake, map and transit data.
See something out of date? The map is corrected same-day: support@carsandcoast.com.
Contact
Press & interviews: hello@carsandcoast.com
Corrections & data issues: support@carsandcoast.com