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Nov 16, 09 - 01:42 pm Comment from: Gregg Thurman

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.

Nov 16, 09 - 02:36 pm Comment from: HMCIV

I thought jury rigging was something we did in Psystar trials.

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??

Nov 16, 09 - 02:53 pm Comment from: Apple Cider

Chick in white lab coat: "As we turn the knob..."
Place that on a loop. Om om om

Nov 16, 09 - 02:58 pm Comment from: Big Al

That's not real roof surfing when you have control of the f'n car.

Pussies.

Nov 16, 09 - 03:45 pm Comment from: lurker

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.

Nov 16, 09 - 04:28 pm Comment from: Wha

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.

Nov 16, 09 - 07:35 pm Comment from: Forrest, Forrest Gump

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)

Nov 17, 09 - 05:21 am Comment from: DX

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)