Another common technique is to use a "process trailer", aka an insert trailer or low loader. It is used as a moving camera platform and is towed by a special truck-like vehicle that may contain cameras, booms and or lights. The process trailers are generally very low to the ground to give a realistic perspective of height. They can expand in width to allow a camera to be placed along the side, for example to film actors speaking through a side window. Note the safety bars in the first picture below so the crew don't fall off the trailer while it is moving.
Some companies renting this type of equipment are Action Camera Cars and Shotmaker.
If they only need to shoot from the front, and not from the side, they can dispense with the trailer altogether and simply tow the car behind the film truck:
In either the case, the actor playing the driver doesn't actually drive the car, but they must appear to be driving, same as if chroma key was being used with a stationary car on a set.
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