These days, when someone talks about a hybrid vehicle, they’re generally referring to a gasoline/electric power system under the hood. This may change one day as we ourselves may merge with the cars of the future, and a team of engineering students in India is already trying it out.
The project out of Mount Zion College of Engieering and Technology involved converting a small van into a computer controlled vehicle, and then using the Emotiv EEG headset as a controller. Of course this is still very much a concept that’ll need many years of work before anyone will be crazy enough to actually drive with their mind on the open road. Nevertheless, the fact is that EEG has become cheap and portable, and advancements in algorithms that process this data may actually lead to thought-driven cars. Here’s a video from the project team:
Project page on Facebook: Brain Driven Hybrid Vehicle…..
(hat tip: Neurogadget)