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Your Brain Waves Are a Password: How Your Next Car Will Check You're Not a Thief

Posted by samzenpus on from the scan-me dept.

cartechboy writes "And you thought stealing cars was hard today? You're facing locks, kill switches, LoJacks, OnStar, and more. But there's worse on the way: Engineers at Japan's Tottori University have developed a prototype theft-prevention system that uses brain waves to identify drivers. That's right: The system samples your brain waves, stores them--and actually shuts down the car if the driver's EEG signals don't match what's on file. It also busts drunk and sleepy drivers, because their brain waves differ from those when you're fully awake and totally sober. One non-Tron downside: If you want to drive, you have to wear a scary-looking set of sensors on your skull so the car can constantly reads your brainwaves."

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  1. Re:How your car thief will will steal your cars. by k8to · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe brain patterns typically alter when the head is separated from the body.

    Your milage may vary.

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  2. So what you do... by roc97007 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...is get drunk, and *then* have it create a template of your brain waves. Then you have to be drunk or the car won't start.

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  3. Re:About face! by BlueStrat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Advice to developers: Contact NSA. They'll be happy to provide unlimited funding for this.

    Null program, there, AC.

    Like the NSA hasn't had their own at-a-distance bi-directional systems for years, in fac&2@Y&UIjoi)(*vhMPYyNM^thequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog@t4%*(5GUJ[Hj9}8.Ruy45YCv

    #NO CARRIER

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  4. Re:How your car thief will will steal your cars. by Alsee · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe brain patterns typically alter when the head is separated from the body.

    "Typically" implies you think that's true for more than than 50% of the population.
    I dunno, either you're an optimist or I'm a cynic.

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