Driving a car with an iPhone.

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50 points·mattmichielsen··12 comments

That is really neat. Seems they didn't have the brakes set to fail-safe though. "BRAKES!"

It says on their site that they use UDP for sending/receiving steering and breaking commands (among other things).

I would assume they have some major redundancy on each command. Would it not be smarter to use TCP to control a car?

I would think UDP would be better, since they are not concerned with perfect data integrity, just as long as the data gets there before they hit something.

That'll teach me to scoff at Bond. The first thing I thought of was Bond driving his car in Tomorrow Never Dies (10ish years ago), with a device that looks suspiciously like an iPhone.

Yea back that it all looked so futuristic. All we really need is a gyrosensor and some processing power. The iPhone app aint anything amazingly special, its the hardware they built that is :P Wait, no its not.

This reminds me of a YouTube video I saw a while back:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiLoANg6nNY

I assume it's fake though... if only because that's my default position on these things!

Cool video. I can't tell if it's fake or not… On one hand, I don't see how they would risk a Formula 1 car with that kind of stunt.

On the other hand, well… there isn't anybody in it! (and it's probably not a big deal to develop for a Formula One engineering team)

Here in Austin, TX -- anything is possible. Keen engineering, Waterloo Labs!

LabView was used by city ordinance.

... a horrible car remote?

A Dr Horrible joke falls on deaf ears in a geek forum?

/sigh

I want to say a lot of things but right now, all I can say is supercool.

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