[hacoo]

It’s actually much easier to remotely pilot a drone than a car for a few reasons:

- Cars operate very close to obstacles, at any given time, you are only seconds from hitting something. This means you need extremely high reliability and low latency. Planes have a lot more time to recover from communication loss before hitting the ground.

- Planes can circle in the air safely if they lose communications. Cars have to stop and then block traffic.

- In the air there are no buildings, mountains, tunnels, etc to block signal.

- The military has resources to set up and fully control its own communications system. Rolling out such a system on all public roads would be a huge undertaking. Existing networks (LTE) are not designed for remote vehicle operation.

So basically, while you CAN drive a car over LTE, there are a ton of edge cases that make it pretty unsafe. As mentioned above, these companies do have remote operators to unstuck cars, but they don’t drive them directly.