The ISS has human operators in real time, so it's just remote operation. And ISS work still requires human intervention (with hands) for most complicated things

The ISS has human operators in real time, so it's just remote operation. And ISS work still requires human intervention (with hands) for most complicated things. The only things that are done without real-time control are things that were failure prone in the past but have be mastered over years. And even then, the Russian autonomous docking system recently had major issues. The mention of self-driving cars, orbital speed, and the suggestion of sampling near the landing site all appears to be responding to an argument I didn't make. Most importantly, you haven't addressed my point, widely appreciated in spaceflight, that novel untested mechanisms are always one of the primary sources of risk.