You may have heard a remote control car referred to as an RC car. Normally, RC is used to describe other remote control toys and hobby items too, including remote control trucks, airplanes, helicopters and more. Though, RC is also used to describe radio controlled cars, and there is a difference. The most remarkable difference is that remote control cars use wires between the remote and the vehicle, while radio controlled cars do not.

A remote control car allows the user to control the car's speed and movement through the use of a hand-held device just like a radio controlled care does. While it may not offer the same maneuverability, it also doesn't require separation between frequencies in order to use more than one remote control toy. In other words, you can race two of the same remote control cars, but in order to do so with radio control cars, you'd need two with different frequencies.

Observably, of the most important aspects of the remote control car is hand held control or the transmitter. A remote control car normally requires a battery, much like any other remote control. And, like other remote controls, pushing buttons is the method used for powering and calculating the device linked to it, in this case the car.