Patent ID: 8255093

Claim:
A kit to adapt an automotive vehicle for remote operation, the kit comprising: a steering servo for coupling to a steering wheel of the vehicle, the steering servo mounted on a tiltable plate, the tiltable plate mounted on a vertically-extendable stand; a bottom plate coupled to the vertically-extendable stand, the bottom plate adapted to bolt to a floor of the vehicle in place of a driver's seat; a platform to support a seat, the platform being coupled to a vertical stand which is coupled to the bottom plate; a throttle control servo mounted to a vertical surface of a side plate configured to couple with a throttle body of the vehicle using a throttle cable, the side plate coupling the vertical stand with the vertically-extendable stand; a gear-selection linear actuator mounted to an opposite vertical surface of the side plate configurable to couple with a gear selection mechanism of an automatic transmission of the vehicle using a flexible push-pull cable to allow gear selection; and an electrically operated hydraulic brake servo to mount on the bottom plate and configured to couple with hydraulic brake lines of the vehicle.