“File this one under Don’t Try This at Home,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
“Some DIY guys in Austin, Texas, with time on their hands and access to free equipment have demonstrated how to use an Apple iPhone to steer, accelerate and brake a jury-rigged car,” Elmer-DeWitt reports.
Check it out via YouTube:
Direct link to video here.
More info and another video offering more details about how they did it in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “qka” for the heads up.]
Maybe driving your car with an iPhone is practical, but I’m sure there are any number of other applications for this kind of technology, using an iPhone as the controller.
Unfortunately, their innovative “iDrive” app was rejected from the App Store due to the unauthorized use of an Apple-created icon image…
… could give a whole new meaning to the phrase “back seat driver”.
I made one of these iPhone car-controllers ages ago. It’s on my sing-along blog.
Also, “jury rigged”? How illiterate are you? I have a Ph.D. in horribleness.
I thought jury rigging was something we did in Psystar trials.
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There was a James Bond movie a few years ago- he was controlling the car with his phone… “Tomorrow Never Dies” I think….
Life Imitates Art??
Chick in white lab coat: “As we turn the knob…”
Place that on a loop. Om om om
That’s not real roof surfing when you have control of the f’n car.
Pussies.
Jury rigging refers to makeshift repairs or temporary contrivances, made with only the tools and materials that happen to be on hand. Originally a nautical term, on sailing ships a jury rig is a replacement mast and yards improvised in case of damage or loss of the original mast.
It should be “gerry-rigged” for the love of Christ.
Named after Elbridge Gerry.
Alternatively, “jerry-rigged” would have been acceptable.
With no ability to run this app in the background, I’d hate to be in the car when you get a phone call.
Jerry-rigged if you mean Jerry from the Facts of Life
Jury-rigged refers to illegally influence a jury.
Jerry-rigged means make-shift. It refers to the “spit and bailing wire”, make-shift repair work done towards the end of WW2 by German military personnel (Jerrys) to keep military vehicles and weapons working. Due to lack of materials, repairs were done with whatever was at hand, even if parts weren’t made for the particular purposes they were being used for.
Two different concepts.
And, yes, the car was jerry-rigged.
Give these folks a job, this is funny as hell.
I can see it now, “Why no ocifer, I wasn’t drinking and driving. I called my wife to drive me home with her phone”.
No way they convict you, no way.
and the winner is…. leodavinci
(crowd roars)
The encyclopedia is only a few clicks away these days.
In Germany there is a serious attempt to do the same, with help from artificial intelligence, at the Freie Universität of Berlin:
Berlin Racing Team
Peace
well I liked it–and semantics aside (I only have 1 B.A. and 3 mastered after all) I thought the jury-rigged use of electric car windows motors was pretty good and the thing did drive well. Unlike Bond’s movie (we all knew it was fake)
Guys… you might “rig a jury”, but jury-rigging is the same as jerry-rigging. In fact, it’s the original and correct spelling. Why fucktards with a limited command of English think they need to correct professional writers who obviously have the ability to *gasp* crack a dictionary occasionally rather than rely on their over-inflated ego for everything is beyond me.
Look it up.
Da da da da, da da daaaa, da da, da da da *
*(sung to the tune of the James Bond theme)