Remote controlling real life cars sounds like fun, until when you crash them of course. We've seen this kind of "tech" in movies before, but here's a real life example of one. A group of Russian hackers used an iPad 3 to control an old Opel Vectra.

The idea to create an iPad-controlled car mod started after they figured out how to drive toy R/C cars over the internet. And then, they went about to buy a 1990 Opel Vectra that was considered almost dead and started modding the car.
"There are many such projects of the remotely operated vehicles, but usually people connect to the steering rack and the brakes directly. We, however, chose a closer to reality approach, in which one needs to turn the wheel and press the pedal for real (without connecting to the “electronic brain”) and thus provide a universal solution. Now the whole system can be transferred to any automobile as long as it has an automatic transmission (and the automatic transmission selector is — not zigzag)."
Check out the video below, and it'll show you how the car is rigged up to an iPad through a custom app with a steering wheel "analog" and buttons for gas and brake. Pretty impressive.

Vimeo and Red Hot Russia, via Cult of Mac and Jalopnik