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...