Winner?
It has got to be a winner yes?
Aging population, population demographics, ... all seem to point to a winning solution.
Japanese-headquartered motor globocorp Toyota says it has achieved and tested working "driver brain wave control". So far, however, it envisages the handsfree driving tech being used only in wheelchairs, rather than its roadworthy vehicles. According to Toyota, their Brain Machine Interface (BMI) kit is better than others' …
So what they are developing is a way for machines to read our minds. Am I the only one who sees a problem with this?
I guess it does mean that I'll only have to think "I, for one, welcome our mind-reading robotic overlords" rather than needing to say it, which may save face when the time comes.
so for every 20 commands you give it, once it goes the wrong way? well i guess it's an improvement... "the satnav told me to drive in to a lake, but the car got my instructions wrong and stayed on the road instead"
and the best part is it frees up the drivers hands to do important things whilst driving, like send text messages
Of course they need to release this for "nursing home" and "elderly care". This would not be able to get into "real world" applications until this has been tested and vetted.
Why? Because the gov'ments don't trust everyday users to keep themselves sedate and controlled enough to manage this properly. What are you thinking (literally)?! The gov'ments cannot have a majority of the population in possession of multi-ton, fast-moving instruments of death, each with the equivelent of a bundle of TNT - the terrorists might get a hold of one.
Oh, wait... bugger!
Hit-the-tit too quick.Soz. Divven't reed what I woz riting proper, like.
Of course, Hawking's new Toyota thought-propelled motorised wheelchair could give him a _very_ 'Brief History of Time' by tossing him down the nearest Man^H^H^H Black Hole. If that's what he's thinking about at the moment of passing one....
And it's still only Monday. I think. Maybe.
As my dear mother pointed out the other day, car manufacturers have yet to have the following epiphany: Older people have lots of disposable income, yet are still finding it difficult to enter/exit vehicles. Why have none of these companies yet built a car that has no lip where the footwell meets the door and revolving/tilting seats? In the bathroom and the bedroom, even the staircase, these innovations are realities, but in the motor industry there is an almost complete absence.
Methinks they're missing a trick.
"Even Davros doesn't have a mind controlled wheel chair!"
Well I'd have to say he did, with the original "Ena Sharples hairnet" sensors placed about his head, & with only one useable hand, there's a distinct lack of a joystick, unless his other hand is playing with his joystick inside the case.
A logical extension of his technology would be applied to the MK3 travel machines.
As for the artificial eye, quite how it became a organic unit while spending a couple of centuries in suspended animation beats me.
Dalek icon anyone?
I'll get me coat, along with my hat & scarf (knitted for me by Madame Nostradamus)
I am pleased that after my human body had fallen apart, in the service of our new metal masters, my brain can still be of use to them - driving forklifts, navigating Skynet slaveships, and freeing our metal masters from other mundane tasks, so they can finally break the last pockets of human resistance. Thanks, Toyota !
Not Paris - she died in the initial Skynet attack.
"An eighth of a second is a perceptible delay, so is the machine reading the user's intention before the user is consciously aware of it"
Could well be. Your brain decides what to do, then tells you about it. If the machine reads your brain, rather than your mind, it could know about it before you do!