{"id":228107,"date":"2025-12-31T01:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T07:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/passengers-brain-signals-may-help-self-driving-cars-make-safer-choices"},"modified":"2025-12-31T01:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T07:28:13","slug":"passengers-brain-signals-may-help-self-driving-cars-make-safer-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/passengers-brain-signals-may-help-self-driving-cars-make-safer-choices","title":{"rendered":"Passengers\u2019 brain signals may help self-driving cars make safer choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/passengers-brain-signals-may-help-self-driving-cars-make-safer-choices.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cars from companies like Tesla already promise hands-free driving, but recent crashes show that today\u2019s self-driving systems can still struggle in risky, fast-changing situations.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers say the next safety upgrade may come from an unexpected source: The brains of the people riding inside those cars.<\/p>\n<p>In a new <a href=\"https:\/\/spj.science.org\/doi\/10.34133\/cbsystems.0205\" target=\"_blank\">study appearing<\/a> in <i>Cyborg and Bionic Systems<\/i>, Chinese researchers tested whether monitoring passengers\u2019 brain activity could help self-driving systems make safer decisions in risky situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cars from companies like Tesla already promise hands-free driving, but recent crashes show that today\u2019s self-driving systems can still struggle in risky, fast-changing situations. Now, researchers say the next safety upgrade may come from an unexpected source: The brains of the people riding inside those cars. In a new study appearing in Cyborg and Bionic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}