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.

this is nice

What's the wireless canbus adapter you using?