From GPS-activated to self-driving cars, China is announcing another breakthrough with its latest mind-controlled car. Scientists from the Nankai University devoted two years to bring this mind-blowing telekinesis-driven cars into reality. 

The driver wears a piece of device that can allegedly read brain impulses. It can signal and control the car to move forward, backwards and break or stop as well as lock or unlock doors. All of these can be done without moving a finger.

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In an interview with Reuters, Zhang Zhao claimed that the equipment with 16 sensors can read select or relevant electroencephalogram impulses from the driver's brain.

"The tester's EEG signals are picked up by this (brain signal-reading) equipment and transmitted wirelessly to the computer. The computer processes the signals to categorize and recognize people's intention, then translates them into control command to the car. The core of the whole flow is to process the EEG signals, which is done on the computer," Zhang stated.

The university's College of Computer and Control Engineering associate professor Duan Feng said that this innovation aims to serve people better. With this technology on hand, this can even be combined with driverless cars like Google Self Driving Car.

"Driverless cars' further development can bring more benefits to us, since we can better realize functions relating to brain controlling with the help of the driverless cars' platform," Professor Duan said. "In the end, cars, whether driverless or not, and machines are serving for people. Under such circumstances, people's intentions must be recognized. In our project, it makes the cars better serve human beings." 

Scientists, however, are anxious about possible road accidents especially when drivers get distracted by certain things. Dang claimed that focus is only needed when vehicle's status is changed like turning or going to another lane.

They claim that this research aims to help people with disabilities who cannot drive behind the steering wheels get to places. "There are two starting points of this project. The first one is to provide a driving method without using hands or feet for the disabled who are unable to move freely; and secondly, to provide healthy people with a new and more intellectualized driving mode," Zhang said.

Currently, the cars can only take straight directions and further improvements are needed; thus, plans for mass production dismissed. 

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