Comments on: Use Your Brain to Brake, Not Your Leg http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/07/29/use-your-brain-to-brake-not-your-leg/ Quirky, funny, and surprising science news from the edge of the known universe. Fri, 25 May 2012 18:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: hafgh http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/07/29/use-your-brain-to-brake-not-your-leg/comment-page-1/#comment-72315 hafgh Fri, 05 Aug 2011 06:53:43 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=18578#comment-72315 As cool as this all sounds, the technology may have a ways to go before you can drive around with your own fancy EEG cap, lead researcher Benjamin Blankertz told BBC. The caps in the study were uncomfortable and took half an hour to put on ( electrodes had to be attached to the participants’ scalps), not to mention the fact that they only worked when participants kept their heads still. As cool as this all sounds, the technology may have a ways to go before you can drive around with your own fancy EEG cap, lead researcher Benjamin Blankertz told BBC. The caps in the study were uncomfortable and took half an hour to put on ( electrodes had to be attached to the participants’ scalps), not to mention the fact that they only worked when participants kept their heads still.

]]> By: dirk http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/07/29/use-your-brain-to-brake-not-your-leg/comment-page-1/#comment-72073 dirk Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:14:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=18578#comment-72073 I imagine it would be MUCH easier to figure out autonomous breaking with sensors around the car rather bothering with the brain. This would also turn a lot of traffic related court cases into Minority Report situations... people explaining that they didn't mean to break on the interstate, but the expert witness (the car), saying the person thought it. I imagine it would be MUCH easier to figure out autonomous breaking with sensors around the car rather bothering with the brain.

This would also turn a lot of traffic related court cases into Minority Report situations… people explaining that they didn’t mean to break on the interstate, but the expert witness (the car), saying the person thought it.

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