Distracted driving causes a lot of accidents. Reading maps, fiddling with the radio, talking on the phone or–worst of all–texting on the phone can get people killed. So as an experiment, Emotive, a neuroengineering company, and the Royal Automotive Club of Western Australia built the Attention Powered Car.
Sensors on the driver’s head measure brain activity. When a computer reads the signals and determines that the driver is switching between mental tasks too often, it slows down the car.
via Neatorama
November 11, 2013


