In a bid to score at the DARPA 2007 Urban Grand Challenge, a bunch of researchers from the Freie Unverstat Berlin Artificial Intelligence Group managed to hack a van to be semi-autonomous. And that’s not all. This has led to a mobile application development firm called Appirion UG to come out with an iPhone application that can control a ‘real’ Dodge van.

There’s no end to what you can do with your iPhone if you have one. Just make sure that you have enough of charge on your iPhone to take you to your destination.

[Boingboing]