Chinese researchers are experimenting with a mind-controlled car

Carmakers like Volvo, Mercedes-Benz and Tesla are hard at work on autonomous systems that use computers to drive cars. Chinese researchers, however, are taking another approach to the future of hands-free driving.

Researchers at Nankai University in Tianjin, China, developed a car they say can be driven using only brainpower. The experiment, which was created in partnership with Chinese carmaker Great Wall Motor, can be driven forward, backward, stopped — as well as locked and unlocked — from the backseat without the operator using his or her hands or feet, according to the researchers. Read more...