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The autonomous racing league that meets in Oakland is doing exactly that. Typically the R/C car uses wifi to connect back to an AWS instance for the heavy lifting.

> Typically the R/C car uses wifi to connect back to an AWS instance for the heavy lifting.

Wow, and the latency is manageable for the task?

Well, the average human reaction time is 215ms, which would be considered unacceptable in online-gaming, where 50ms would already be on the high side of things, I normally see 30ms or so.

Let's assume 50ms or 20 updates per second, and a car driving at 40m/s or about 145kmh / 90mph, the reaction time of the of the computer is after the car moved 2 meters (about 6.5 feet). A human would only react after about 8.5 meters (about 28 feet) - quite the difference.

Related: http://duckietown.mit.edu/

Why do that, when you could train in a computer simulation?

Cooler, cuter, funner.