00:00I'm pretty proud of what I've done.
00:03I haven't seen anybody who done exactly the same thing.
00:06This car is fully without control.
00:30This is my 2006 Corvette C6 and it's a full-scale, remote-controlled car and I like it a lot.
00:38This is 34-year-old computer technician Bjorn Harms.
00:42He's built a full-sized, remote-controlled Corvette that wouldn't look out of place in the latest Bond film.
00:51My first idea of building a full-sized, remote-controlled car was by watching Back to the Future when I
00:58was a little kid.
00:59And I always had this idea of, man, when I'm older and I get my first car then I want
01:04to try to make my own full-scale, remote-controlled car.
01:07And that's what I did.
01:11The Corvette is road-legal and even my daily driver.
01:16Two years ago I bought a Corvette C6 and I came up with this idea to make it full-scale,
01:23remote-controlled.
01:24So I had to make a universal motor controller so I could control different types of motors that I've attached
01:31to the controls of the car.
01:32I control the car with my four-channel transmitter.
01:36It controls the braking, the gear changing, the throttle and the steering.
01:41Building the universal motor controller took me around one year.
01:46Then it took me around three months to make a prototype system and it took me another three months to
01:51make a system that was also safe enough to use.
02:18I also made a fail-safe system.
02:20So that means if the car gets out of range of my transmitter, the brakes start braking automatically.
02:34The engine is a V8 six-liter.
02:37It has around 404 horsepower and the top speed is close to 300 kilometers an hour.
02:45Technically it could go that fast remotely but highly unwisely.
02:56The first time I drove the car I felt pretty scary because I was a little bit nervous on would
03:03it actually work properly.
03:06But after testing it, it worked better than I thought.
03:11Most people are very excited and they actually love the project.
03:16But there are also a lot of people that think it's crazy and of course a little bit dangerous.
03:23The entire RC process cost around 3500 euros.
03:29Give or take.
03:30All the Corvette values right now is around 30,000 euros.
03:35Even with the remote control system.
03:37I would consider selling it but mainly so I can start another project again.
03:47I'm pretty sure there's no other Corvette in the world that controls like this one.
03:53I am very proud of what I have done.
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