in a galaxy not too far away, i'm waiting for another ride with a difference. lara: don't tell me, - a self-driving taxi ordered by an app? actually, no, not quite! not this time. this is not an autonomous car. it is being driven remotely by bill reeves, from the comfort of the headquarters of halo in las vegas. bill's setup is almost indistinguishable from a video game. he is using standard game controllers and a fancy monitor. but the view he sees is not computer—generated. the car he is driving is actually real, and the passenger he is tasked with picking up is actually me. the next surprise is that i am not being driven, i am driving myself now. and the pitch is that while we wait for a world full of autonomous cars which are driving around, picking people up, taking them where they want to go and dropping them off and going off to do otherjobs, remote—controlled cars can do some of that work. and that means that some people