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Phoneride the Whip: Drive Your Car With Your iPhone

by Lee Bains on November 11, 2009 at 12:40 PM

Anybody who's anybody familiar with Bay Area rap or viral video has long known about ghost-riding the whip. If you aren't among those music or Internet dorks, though, the idea of prancing around on the hood of an unmanned car, with the shifter in drive and brakes disengaged, might strike you as dangerous, or just dumb. We know. It's because it has nothing to do with your radical new iPhone, right?

Well, lucky for you, the team at National Instruments' Waterloo Labs can show you how to whip that ghost-ride into submission, smartphone-style. In the amazingly brief video (after the break), these fine young engineers explain how to transform your hooptie into a wirelessly controlled awesome-mobile. With little more than National Instruments' LabVIEW software, a Compact RIO, a couple small motors, one wireless router, and two open-end wrenches, these young Texans cruise Austin's roadways from the roof of their Oldsmobile Delta 88 -- accelerating, braking, and steering via an iPhone.


While that Olds is totally legit, and although we love us some Texas boogie rock, we do think the crew could have found a better soundtrack for this particular brand of Lonestar loco. [From: Waterloo Labs, via TUAW]

Tags: car, diy, funny, iphone, top, waterloo labs, WaterlooLabs, wireless

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