Author of post here, yes it's based out of India. The vehicle is a modified research vehicle with retrofitted motors with torque control to control steering.
cool. i'd want to try it. if you could sell kits, that'd be awesome. plus, use something like osm to figure out the road before taking it,road changes and stuff from there because it seems like a nice stable platform to get and store data on.
It does gets throttled without heatsink after 1-2 hours if used continuously. Though heatsink is good enough to keep it cool for longer drives. Also depends on what phone you are using. More powerful phone = less overheating