Researchers Have Made A Car You Can Control With Nothing But Brain Power
The original idea behind this fascinating project - the work of a team of researchers in Tianjin - was to create a system that would allow disabled people to drive cars. It uses 16 sensors to pick up EEG (electroencephalogram) signals emitted by the brain, which are then ‘translated’ by a computer programme into movement orders.
Beyond the question of mobility for disabled people, it’s also being billed as something you’d combine with autonomous driving, rather than a system that could eventually give you outright control. That’s why distraction wouldn’t be an issue: you’d only be ‘sending’ the car commands to do things like set off, change lanes or turn off a road.
The technology is still quite limited, too: this prototype version - built into a Great Wall Haval (nope, me neither) - is only capable of moving forwards, backwards, or coming to a stop. Oh, and you can lock and unlock it with your mind too, if you wish.
Source: Reuters via World Car Fans
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Wait so won’t that make all of us professional race car drivers? We can all think of what we want the car to do, but we usually can’t react or use our hands and legs to make it do it. So if it’s controlled by our thought, we can just think it and it should do what we want it to.
Its not that i don’t trust the car…i just don’t trust myself. I’m afraid ill have a brief moment of insanity and hit someone or something or drive off a cliff.
uses EEG, then I have a seizure and the car freaks out…
Just hearing EEG makes me cringe
I wonder what the car would do when i think about drifting that sh*t.
Hmm..
Just guess what could happen when you get distracted for just one brief moment…
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