BrainDriver: Using your one neuron to drive

02/18/2011

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Self-driving cars to drive people even more insane

05/24/2010

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FROM NEWS. AU: IBM applies for right to stop your car at intersections, week after researchers hack car
THE days of running red lights may be numbered.

Which is obviously a good thing in the obvious sense that things could get a little safer, but the method by which it may come about is causing some concern.

If you're at all in fear of a Skynet future controlled entirely by computers such as that featured in the Terminator franchise, look away now.

IBM has applied for a patent that covers "a method for managing engines in response to a traffic signal".

If you're crawling through traffic in 2025 and approach a traffic light, IBM hopes it will be able to take control of your car.

And according to the patent, you won't be able to go again until it lets you.

Which sounds relatively harmless - it's something we do, or should do, anyway - but the issue of computer-controlled cars had some uneasy light thrown on it last week, when researchers at the universities of Washington and California enjoyed themselves at the expense of current models.


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Also check out the UK's SARTE initiative involving the same concept 
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Eyedrive (iDrive) technology to deem arms obsolete

04/28/2010

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Try to check out that hottie without killing her! Its compatible with the bluedouch headset. Does this mean the texting laws will be rewritten when the cars start driving themselves ?
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Texting while driving to be replaced with Texting to drive

11/17/2009

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