GPS racer My Speedster driving its way onto iPhone

Most of us can admit to speeding at some point in our lives - even our gallant editor Rob landed himself another ticket the other day in his rush to get to work. (Actually, I was driving home - ed). It's not condonable, but at one point or another we've been in a rush and stopped being law abiding citizens.

Of course, the law frowns heavily on such actions, so it probably has its eyes narrowed in suspicion at My Speedster, an application that has you setting (albeit safely) 0-60 times, and speed to distance records. Enter developer Internet Marketing's MySpeedster.net application.

Using GPS technology, your iPhone essentially becomes a telemetry device, recording your personal times in the 0-60 and 400 metre categories (0-100km/h for those using the metric system).

Your score is then put onto the MySpeedster.net server, in a category depending on the car you used, to compete with other petrol heads across the world leaderboards.

Dubbed as the first GPS-racer, the concept does sound rather clever from a technical point of view, though it's unlikely to win any driver safety awards.

"We are not making people to break regulations and take penalties from road police," Internet Marketing said in the MySpeedster.net press release.

"Remember speeding is dangerous, but we strongly believe there are plenty of safe places in every city where people can show up their driving skills. And what we believe more - many of them do this and enjoy the car they own. We just provide the technology to make the process interesting."