History Main / MurderByRemoteControlVehicle

* ''Film/MysteriousDoctorSatan''. The MacGuffin being sought by this 1940's FilmSerial supervillain is a device that can be used to remotely control vehicles being developed for the US military (Dr. Satan wants it to remotely control his KillerRobot). It therefore gets used on a couple of occasions when Dr. Satan wants someone dead by having one of his agents plant the device in a boat or aircraft, so the masked hero has to rush off and save them.

* Happens in the opening of ''Film/KingOfTheRocketMen'', the 1949 Republic FilmSerial that kicked off the [[JetPack Rocketman]] character. A scientist gets into his car only to find it's been modified by the [[SinisterSilhouettes shadowy]] [[BigBad Dr. Vulcan]], who uses remote control radio waves to send it off a cliff. The same thing happens to the hero, who of course escapes. The scene is {{Gag Dub}}bed in ''Film/JMenForever'' when the Lightning Bug causes numerous crashes by playing loud rock music.

* In the ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' episode "Shot at Dawn", the murderer uses remote control vehicles several times, either by crashing a vehicle the victim is in or using a vehicle to chase someone down.

[[quoteright:350:[[Film/ForYourEyesOnly https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blofeld_for_your_eyes_only_helicopter.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''[[EvilGloating "You are now flying Remote Control Airways. Think twice. It's a long way down."]]'']]

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* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': In ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' #160, The Tinkerer tries to kill Spider-Man using a remote-controlled version of the Spider-Mobile (a very short-lived spider-themed vehicle owned by Spidey).

* The Tinkerer once tried to kill Franchise/SpiderMan using a remote-controlled version of the Spider-Mobile (a very short-lived spider-themed vehicle owned by Spidey).

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': In ''Action Comics'' #468, western-themed villain Terra-Man controls a fleet of driverless cars and sends them charging towards Superman as the urban equivalent of a [[AnimalStampede cattle stampede]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'': Robin and Spoiler were once able to escape after being surrounded by a heavily armed group of gangsters ''and'' take the costumed criminal Tim had been investigating--who had gotten on the gangsters' wrong side--into custody by making the gangsters scatter with the threat that the remote-controlled [[CoolCar Redbird]] was going to run over them.

* In the [[VideoGame/WatchDogs2 latter]] [[VideoGame/WatchDogsLegion two]] ''Watch_Dogs'' games, the PlayerCharacter can pull this on unsuspecting foes: since every car is [[EverythingIsOnline connected to CtOS]], they can be hacked and commanded to drive forwards, backwards, left or right. Not enough for precise control, but perfect for [[CarFu flattening any guards]] who happen to be in the way.

* This is how Christopher Pelant tried to kill a school full of girls on ''Series/{{Bones}}''. He intends it to be a SadisticChoice for Hodgins-stop the drone Pelant hacked or save the money being drained-but Hodgins doesn’t care about his money.

* The obscure direct to video movie ''Air Panic'' (2002) has a passenger jet being hijacked by a rogue hacker via computerized remote control with the hero having to prevent it by cutting the remote control connection in the plane.

* In TheTeaser to ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'', Blofeld (although he is never named as such) fakes a message from Bond's office and sends a helicopter to pick him up. He then kills the pilot and assumes remote control of the chopper. Taunting Bond, he causes the chopper to make several near misses on high buildings before steering it into a disused factory where it will inevitably crash. Bond (naturally) manages to disable the remote control and regain control of the helicopter before the crash. Blofeld gets HoistByHisOwnPetard as the chopper dumps him into the smokestack.

** In "Artificial Condition", Murderbot is bodyguarding some researchers going to meet a CorruptCorporateExecutive who, it turns out, is just luring them into a trap. While on the space shuttle to their destination, killware is downloaded into the shuttle's computer destroying the pilot bot. Fortunately Murderbot has recently made the aquaintance of a sentient spacecraft who downloads itself and corrects their course [[RobotsThinkFaster before the humans on board have time to do more than say]] OhCrap

* On two different episodes of ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', the Number of the Week has his car hacked in and forced to accelerate (and disabling all other controls), which makes Reese and Finch run to try to stop the car/counter-hack the car before it inevitably crashes.

* ''Literature/TheMurderbotDiaries''. In "Artificial Condition", Murderbot is bodyguarding some researchers going to meet a CorruptCorporateExecutive who, it turns out, is just luring them into a trap. While on the space shuttle to their destination, killware is downloaded into the shuttle's computer destroying the pilot bot. Fortunately Murderbot has recently made the aquaintance of a sentient spacecraft who downloads itself and corrects their course [[RobotsThinkFaster before the humans on board have time to do more than say]] OhCrap

* The obscure direct to video movie ''Air Panic'' has a passenger jet being hijacked by remote control.