An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link For all the talk of cars without drivers, the deployment of autonomous vehicles might still require humans controlling them from a distance. Most ...

Phantom Auto is a start-up that hopes to assist self-driving cars in tricky scenarios by using remote control. Autonomous cars can get confused in areas like a construction site or if a driveway is ...

LAS VEGAS —French automotive supplier Valeo Group demonstrated a potential system at the Consumer Electronics Show that in certain circumstances could allow an outside operator to take over an ...

Even in the middle of the day, the 50-mile trip from San Francisco to San Jose is a pain. Like a toddler, Bay Area driving toggles between slumber (rush-hour slogs) and frenzy (passing-happy speeding) ...

As soon as this year, self-driving cars in the UK could be truly driverless. That is, except for the remote control driver monitoring the vehicle while it drives in trial runs. But no one has to be in ...

Well, that didn't take long! About a year ago we ran an excerpt of "The Holy Driver," the sixth chapter in a science-fiction book that depicted an online gamer who was unwittingly tapped to remotely ...