Drive your car with your iPhone or Laptop

GnomeQueenGnomeQueen The Lulz QueenMountain Dew Mouth Icrontian
edited November 2009 in Science & Tech
Drive your car with your iPhone or Laptop

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  • lordbeanlordbean Ontario, Canada
    edited November 2009
    007 may have done it years ago, but the Mythbusters did it for real long before these guys. I'd also be really surprised if the mythbusters were the first people to ever rig up a remote control system for a car.

    edited for lots of context problems.
  • GnomeQueenGnomeQueen The Lulz Queen Mountain Dew Mouth Icrontian
    edited November 2009
    I thought the novelty was less that they were remote controlling the car, and more that they were doing it with a smart phone.
  • lordbeanlordbean Ontario, Canada
    edited November 2009
    The fact that they've written an application for their phone that allows them to do that is interesting, but honestly it's not hard to see where they got the idea. Mythbusters remote-controlled car uses a radio controller... Cell phone is just a programmable radio...
  • GnomeQueenGnomeQueen The Lulz Queen Mountain Dew Mouth Icrontian
    edited November 2009
    You make a good point, but I still think it's interesting, if very impractical. I will not be driving my car with my phone, that's for sure....especially considering it's a dumb phone.
  • photodudephotodude Salt Lake, Utah Member
    edited November 2009
    I can't wait to see the guys at mythbusters play with this via the iPhone app
  • waxwax the neroberg Icrontian
    edited November 2009
    wait is he driving it with an iphone 2g? WEAK!
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited November 2009
    This is essentially how we rigged up the drive-by-wire system for my university's autonomous ground vehicle platform. I think these guys spent less money than we did though :tongue:.

    -drasnor :fold:
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