Ghost in the machine? These rental cars are driven by remote control

To the casual observer, this electric rental car whizzing by looks like yet another test of a self-driving car. But actually, someone is driving the car – only they're doing so from miles away. And that's what makes this business model stand apart from the many other autonomous vehicle operations. The car is being driven remotely from a building where an operator uses cameras in the car to see where it's going and can steer, brake and accelerate. "We can make remotely controllable cars (for) any kind of electric vehicle," said Enn Laansoo, CEO and co-founder of Elmo, a car-rental company based in the small Baltic nation of Estonia that's pioneering the technology.