A visor that can read your mind while driving could help prevent fatal crashes.
The device, showcased at CES in Las Vegas, reads electrical signals in the brain using sensors placed on the forehead and ear.
Changes in frequency from those signals can reveal whether someone is distracted or has fallen ill at the wheel.
The device can then alert the driver by sending a signal to a bracelet that vibrates or activating an alarm on the visor.
It also includes an app that can send a message with the GPS co-ordinates of the car to a loved one.
The gadget, dubbed the ‘BrainWave Life Guardian’, is the work of Taiwan-based Akust Technology.
At CES, owner of the firm, Stanly Yang, demonstrated its accuracy by using the visor to guide a small car around a race track.
When concentrating on the car, electrical signals in the brain change frequency, allowing the car to move forward.
Any loss of concentration stops the car in its tracks.
'It could be used for taxi-drivers,' said Yang. 'We can build in more function. If the taxi driver is drunk, for example, nobody knows it but himself.
'Now with this technology, we can prove that he got drunk and with this device we can say 'no, it's dangerous driving.'
The aim is to reduce the number of accidents caused by drivers who are stressed, distracted and failing to concentrate on the road ahead.
But it could also help insurance companies and police authorities to prove the cause of an accident.
Yang claims the visor is 95 per cent accurate, and he's hoping to make it available globally,
If his funding campaign is successful, a BrainWave Life Guardian could be commercially available soon and will cost around $120.
Akust Technology isn't the only one developing brain wave technology to tackle the problem of distracted drivers.
Earlier this year, Jaguar revealed that it is working on creating a car that can read your mind.
It wants to give its vehicles a ‘sixth sense’ that how well its drivers are concentrating through their brainwaves.
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