With the advent of radio control, it’s possible to get ... In the spirit of speed, [James Whomsley] strapped a jet turbine engine to an RC car, and learned some hard lessons along the way.

Remember when you were a kid, and remote-control cars were cheap plastic toys that were great fun until they quickly and inevitably fell apart into unfixable shards? Well, those days are over.

Other robotics companies rely entirely on remote control. Even Waymo, the Google spin-off autonomous vehicle company, has operators ready to assist the self-driving cars in a tough situation.

It might not feel reusable, but [Chris Jones] begs to differ, with a Twitter thread showing us how he’s paired a scrap board from one RC car with a remote control from another, all to help a ...