Me and My RC

“If a Zoox robot taxi encounters a construction zone it has not seen before, for instance, a technician in the command center will receive an alert — a short message in a small, colored window on the side of the technician’s computer screen. Then, using the computer mouse to draw a line across the screen, the technician can send the car a new route to follow around the construction zone.” NYT (Gift Article): How Self-Driving Cars Get Help From Humans Hundreds of Miles Away. Wait a second, does this mean we’re basically being driven around in remote control cars? (For those not old enough to remember the Me and My RC reference, enjoy.)