iPhone Car Remote Redefines Ghost Riding the Whip
I’ve seen a few cars being driven by the iPhone, that’s cool and all, but the guys from Mythbusters have basically been doing that for years. Starting your car with the iPhone makes sense, but driving hands free? The people from Engineer Awesome, which is a part of Waterloo Labs at National Instruments, make it clear… why drive inside of a car when the outside looks so much more fun?
Weather it is called Redneck Surfing or Ghost Riding, it’s most certainly dangerous (i.e., don’t do this at home), but for the sake of science and engineering it’s pretty cool. The system is pretty simple, though they destroyed the in the process (seeing how it’s an Olds ‘88 I doubt anyone will cry over that). I’d like to see someone try this out on a Ferrari, although they should wear football pads.
People continue to find some pretty random uses for iPhone, not to mention the 100,000 apps that are already out there, but there are still quite a few more things we’d like to see come out for the iPhone. At least we can cross ghost riding off that list now.