“Yes, and then he later contradicted that statement with his answer to the question at 1:20.”
At 1:20 he says no such thing.
So, the intervention by the remote operator that the Chief Safety Officer replies to from the question at 1:20 was to take which action that the car would not already take?
The car could shut itself off, flash the lights, play the radio, honk the horn, etc. all by itself. The only intervention the Chief Safety Officer is replying about is taking the controls.