A woman used a remote control car to buy steamed buns in a shop amid the coronavirus outbreak in eastern China.

The video, filmed in the city of Jinan in Shandong Province on February 2, shows a remote-controlled car with two cameras being driven to collect several steamed buns from a nearby shop for its owner Chen Tao.

Chen can be heard speaking to her community's security guard through a loudspeaker on the car: "Can you please help me call the shop owner?"

The security said: "I will fill the box up ok? I put them (steamed buns) at the back."

After that, Chen drove the remote car back home.

According to Chen, she is a car enthusiast and she modified the controller for the car by herself, which made it able to control the car from up to 800 metres away.

The shop she got the steamed buns is around 400 metres away from her apartment, she used her phone to control the cameras.

Since she wrote her phone number on the car, the shop owner added her to get paid via phone.

（视频由遥控小汽车主人陈桃提供）2月2日上午，山东济南。汽车模型爱好者小陈在疫情期间为了减少与他人接触和外出，遥控自己的汽车出门买了4个馒头回家。小陈称，她的小车远程传图和语音系统很成熟了，与小区保安和店老板语音沟通购物很顺利。