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Chinese Researchers Develop Car Which Can Be Controlled by Brain

A research team from Nankai University in China has come up with a mind control car, which uses brain power to operate.

The car is operated through brain signal-reading equipment that the driver has to wear to control the movement of the car as well as both lock and unlock the vehicle without having to moving their hands or feet.

Reuters cited Zhang Zhao, one of the researchers of the brain powered car as saying that the head gear consists of 16 sensors that capture EEG (electroencephalogram) signals from the driver's brain.

The team also created a computer program which is capable of selecting the relevant signals and translates them to control the car.

Associate Professor Duan Feng of the university of led the project said that the technology is aimed serving human beings, and he anticipates that the technology can be used for driverless cars, such as the Google Self Driving Car (SDC).

The news site cited Duan as saying: "Driverless cars' further development can bring more benefits to us, since we can better realize functions relating to brain controlling with the help of the driverless cars' platform.

"In the end, cars, whether driverless or not, and machines are serving for people. Under such circumstances, people's intentions must be recognized. In our project, it makes the cars better serve human beings."

Several automakers including big names like Daimler and Honda have ventured into self driving technologies but none of them have functions that are brain controlled.

 

 

Source: http://automobiletechnology.automotive-business-review.com/news/chinese-researchers-develop-car-which-can-be-controlled-by-brain-081215-4747705
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