A replacement esp32 board arrived and the car now actually does something (desired).

I now have:

• Image display and rough control: a webserver serves the current image in a stream and another server (different) port reacts on control requests - currently only bursts of forward, reverse, left and right.
• Motor control (PWM) with soft start and stop
• All of which with a pre-emptive multi-tasking so that image transfer does not block everything else

Next steps: Android app for finer control and home-made PCB (properly designed).

Note the color tinge from the ir-sensitive camera - lens without ir filter.