Nissan has unveiled its new “ brain - to - fomite ” ( B2V ) technology that it say can predict what a driver is going to do , improving how a machine controls .
The company will unveil the new technology at the Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ) in Las Vegas from January 8 to 11 . In astatement , it said B2V will not only speed up chemical reaction time for driver , but also make get more enjoyable .
“ When most people think about self-directed driving , they have a very impersonal visual sensation of the time to come , where humans renounce ascendance to the automobile , ” Nissan Executive Vice President Daniele Schillaci said in the affirmation .
“ Yet B2V applied science does the opposite , by using signals from their own brain to make the crusade even more exciting and pleasurable . ”
B2V works by using electroencephalography ( EEG ) to measure electrical patterns in the mentality , via a headset with electrode . In a video , the company demonstrated how a soul break this headset , and driving on a simulator , could have their movements anticipated 0.2 to 0.5 seconds in advance by monitor their learning ability sign .
While the driver would n’t be check the car by opinion , the technology could allow the car to predict when the person will turn , brake , accelerate and so on . This allows the machine to ordain the activity before the human being really execute it .
The technology could also line up the fomite ’s internal environment count on the encephalon signals received , and also “ use augmented reality to adjust what the machine driver sees ” .
Speaking to IFLScience , Nick Maxfield from the Japan Communications Department for Nissan say there were a number of step to take blank space before they could arrive at a practical software in the securities industry though , which could takefive to ten years .
For example , they would need a smaller and more stable headset , while the railcar also involve to already have some level of autonomy . He also observe that the engineering would be opt - in , so you would n’t be required to wear an EEG headset to drive a Nissan auto .
" There ’s data your vehicle can get together about your labor habits even when you are n’t wear the headset , " he state . Nissan are n’t plan to make the headset themselves , but would simply offer a car that was ready to be compataible for EEG technology .
" The assumption is that such headsets will have a variety of applications in day-after-day life-time , and we want to offer the first and best integrating of this tech in the machine , " he added .
