The future of self-driving cars could be an extra hour of work
 

The future of self-driving cars could be an extra hour of work
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Cars are going to drive themselves sooner or later — so what will we do with all that extra commuting time so we're **t stuck twiddling our thumbs?*

That's what Audi is looking to find out with a new study, conducted as part of a collaboration withthe human-machine interaction experts of the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering. It put test subjects in a super futuristic auto**mous car simulation, then assigned them a ****** of attention-demanding tasks while monitoring brain activity with EEG sensors.*

It's called The 25th Hour project—an allusion to the 50 minutes or so the average driver spends behind the wheel, and the "extra" hour they could gain without having to drive. * Read more...

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