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From LiveScience.com:
Researchers have set out to make cars far smarter than today's models—especially when it comes to dealing with their twitchy, tweaky, all-too-human drivers.
The project is starting out at Sandia National Laboratories outside Albuquerque, NM, with funding by the Pentagon and a major auto maker it declined to name. The work could have military applications, for moving troops and equipment.
The next step of the research is to make some test drivers really bored. It will involve a convoy of drivers wearing brainwave-detecting caps, proceeding slowly around an abandoned artillery range in Europe—one with monotonous terrain—and waiting for boredom to set in, said Kevin Dixon, senior member of the technical staff at Sandia.
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