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Elon Musk has pioneered self-driving cars driven by Artificial Intelligence, as well as a computer interface controlled by the human brain, but Mercedes has gone one better and combined both of those ideas into a revolutionary new concept car.

The Mercedes Vision AVTR is a demonstration platform for some wildly futuristic ideas that you might see cropping up in the German car manufacturer’s next-gen saloons in a few years' time.

Instead of getting distracted by dashboard controls, Mercedes' designers envision a future where drivers can adjust the radio, aircon, and maybe even one day the sat-nav by just thinking about them.

The all-electric Mercedes Vision AVTR features an array of incredible features pointing the way to a sci-fi future of mind-reading cars that can drive forwards, backwards… or sideways.

To pull off this high-tech magic, the driver needs to wear a helmet with electrodes that detect brain activity and translate it into impulses that relate to different aspects of the car’s control system.

You "train" the Brain-Computer Interface [BCI] by thinking about the various components of the car while a computer projects lights onto the dashboard - as you think about each one in turn the computer tracks how your brain is working at that exact moment and maps it onto that system.

Mercedes spokesperson Britta Seeger says the company is "setting another milestone in the merging of man and machine.

"BCI technology works completely independently of speech and touch," she says.

"This opens up revolutionary possibilities for intuitive interaction with the vehicle."

The car includes a number of other futuristic design features, such as four independently-controllable high-performance near-wheel-built electric motors for next-generation road holding and a "crab-like" sideways driving capability.

Its revolutionary battery technology is based on graphene-based organic cell chemistry ruling out toxic and hard-to-find rare earth metals.

Adding to the car’s eco-credentials, the battery is designed to be 100% recyclable and will be able to run for over 400 miles on a single fast charge.

Even the seats are covered in vegan-friendly Dinamica faux leather and the dashboard is a single curved display unit that displays the surrounding area is shown in real-time 3D graphics for a fully immersive feeling of what’s around the car in every direction.

It’ll be a few years until these features trickle down into production cars, and it remains to be seen how well drivers will take to wearing a mind-reading helmet to control the radio, but the concept is an amazing insight into how car designers are thinking about the future.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tech/news/mercedes-new-car-reads-drivers-24922543

Mehn technology is really evolving

Gradually we are getting there. Very soon cars will run on water. AI will be responsible for advancing AI.

Everything and everyone is going to be interconnected and controlled from central point.

As much as I am an IT and innovation freak, and good as all these may sound. I don't want to witness it.

FYI, my reasons are not religious

What will happen when the driver start to think of Sex when driving

Great idea until someone is driving in front of peckas at night. Even the car will get confused as to what to do because the thinking at that point……

Mynd44:
Great idea until someone is driving in front of peckas at night. Even the car will get confused as to what to do because the thinking at that point……

What's Peckas bro

Not possible


Quote this post and shame me when it happens

Until your mind start telling you "I will jam this army officer now if e make me vex"

Before you change your mind the officer is already dead.

Wow

Benz

Waiting for men of God that will call it satanic

Na wa oh...... Chaiiii oyinbo people en...

Future cars are really getting ugly
Imagine the dashboard without a steering wheel

Elon Musk is decades ahead of his time. The guys brain is something else. He deserves the world's richest man position.

ojuju

The future is technology

Davash222:
What will happen when the driver start to think of Sex when driving

The car takes the driver to the nearest brothel.

And boys using Corolla 2006 will me making noise

ogbiwa:


What's Peckas bro

You don't know pekas in Ikeja?

How I wan use my mind tell this one to stop at every checkpoint and give police 100 naira?

KNOWLEDGE has INDEED INCREASED... but Na MINISTRY OF LIVESTOCK we dey think about in NIGERIA

ogbiwa:


What's Peckas bro

Babe with big ass and big boobs. Features that will make you lose control while driving

And the pekas mynd is referring to is a popular t in Ikeja at night where you see all shapes of women and get confused which one to pick

No fvcking way. me wey sabi sabi think bad things well well.

So if I think about crushing my landlord early in the morning, this bastard go do am?? I no want

F*cking Caucasians

Anything that can make life easier without an embedded dark side is welcomed.