From Inverse:
Ahead of CES in Las Vegas next week, automaker Nissan revealed what it’s been working on at its Atsugi, Japan-based research facility. A car that measures brain waves to help drivers steer their autonomous cars. Really.
In a wild video that hit the internet on Wednesday, Lucian Gheorghe, who’s a Nissan Senior Innovation Researcher, explains in broad terms how this nascent technology works.
“Our systems will be able to tell an autonomous vehicle, the driver will be steering in the next 300 milliseconds,” Gheorghe says. “Then we can use this window in time to enhance the execution synchronizing the support of the AV with your own actions.
”Nissan's brain-reading helmet.
So, in a third of a second, Nissan researchers claim they can measure brain activity that show you want to turn left — or slam the brakes — and the car can assist you in doing just that.
It’s the inverse approach to self-driving vehicle technology that uses AI to make decisions on when a car should turn left or hit the brakes. Nissan’s latest project seems be more about melding the car with the mind of the driver, instead of letting the car do 100 percent of the thinking.“When most people think about autonomous driving, they have a very impersonal vision of the future, where humans relinquish control to the machines. Yet [brain-to-vehicle] technology does the opposite, by using signals from their own brain to make the drive even more exciting and enjoyable,” said Nissan Executive Vice President Daniele Schillaci in a statement. “Through Nissan Intelligent Mobility, we are moving people to a better world by delivering more autonomy, more electrification and more connectivity.”...MUCH MORE
