How is the remote driver going to immediately know what to do, and immediately know what the surrounding environment is like? Exactly, they won't.
Self-driving cars will never happen.
Self-driving cars will never happen.
"You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense." [1]
[1] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/442305-you-would-make-a-ship...
In certain contexts they exist already. You're arguing against something that already exists.
What's going to happen from here is that the context is going to become broader and broader over time.
As it always has.
This is how technology works.