Japanese automobile manufacturer Nissan has unveiled a new technology that will allow vehicles to interpret signals from the driver’s brain in order to enhance human interaction with cars and improve driving experience.

The new Brain-to-Vehicle (B2V) technology aims to facilitate driver reaction times to make the vehicles more adaptive in real-time situations.

Nissan executive vice-president Daniele Schillaci said: “When most people think about autonomous driving, they have a very impersonal vision of the future, where humans relinquish control to the machines.

“Yet B2V technology does the opposite, by using signals from their own brain to make the drive even more exciting and enjoyable.

“Through Nissan Intelligent Mobility, we are moving people to a better world by delivering more autonomy, more electrification and more connectivity.”

“Through Nissan Intelligent Mobility, we are moving people to a better world by delivering more autonomy, more electrification and more connectivity.”

The new driving assist technology can be used to identify and predict possible driver’s actions and then initiate them more quickly, thereby improving reaction time and manual driving experience.

It is also capable of identifying driver’s discomfort and activate optimal driving configuration or style when in autonomous mode.

The B2V system requires the driver to wear a device that measures brainwave activity, which is then analysed by autonomous systems to take appropriate movement.

The usage can initiate actions about 0.2 to 0.5 seconds faster than the driver.

Nissan will demonstrate capabilities of this technology at the CES 2018 trade show in Las Vegas using a driving simulator.