A Car You Can Drive With Your Thoughts

Posted by Soulskill on Friday February 18, 2011 @04:40AM from the just-don't-think-about-facebook dept.

An anonymous reader writes "German researchers have demonstrated a car that can be driven with brain power alone. In the video, a driver wears an EEG head cap, which records brain activity. Software converts the neural signals into steering and acceleration commands, feeding the data into the car's drive-by-wire system. The brain-car interface, which the researchers call the 'BrainDriver,' is far from being commercially viable. But it could one day allow disabled and paralyzed people to gain more mobility. It could also, the researchers say, help people control autonomous vehicles, like a future driverless cab; just by thinking, passengers would tell the cab where to go."

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Can't wait to see what happens by Dachannien · 2011-02-18 04:42 · Score: 5, Funny

...when the driver spots a totally hot jogger on the sidewalk.
1. Re:Can't wait to see what happens by Arancaytar · 2011-02-18 05:51 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I'd be more interested in a Firefox type system..weapons on the car controlled by your thoughts.
  Gee, I'd heard 5.0 would have some new features, but...
still need brains by minstrelmike · 2011-02-18 04:44 · Score: 5, Insightful

Perfect. Now we just need drivers with brains.
...and language skills by RDW · 2011-02-18 04:56 · Score: 5, Funny

'This is very important, Mr. Gant, you must think in German. You can't think in English and transpose it. You must think in German. Do you think you can do that, Mr. Gant?'