Remote Controlled Carshare Pilot Launches In Detroit

Pilot carshare program in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood is using a remote-controlled Hyundai Niro … [+] EV.
Ed GarstenThe electric Hyundai Niro pulls out from its parking space in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, enters the road, pauses for traffic, its steering wheel spins and the car makes a left turn.

It’s not an autonomous vehicle, but yet there’s no on-board driver operating it. The person who is driving the car is doing so from behind a console and bank of monitors about four hours away in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.