A Car You Can Drive With Your Thoughts 137
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."
still need brains (Score:5, Insightful)
Ridiculous idea (Score:2, Insightful)
People would be better served by a properly designed and well funded public transit system.
How would someone who is so profoundly handicapped that he cannot move a steering wheel be able to get himself in and out of the car anyway?