Don’t think your car understands your needs? Well, at least Nissan car owners don’t need to worry about that. The Japanese car company’s technological innovation makes it so that the car reads your mind thus greatly reducing the reaction time in case of an accident.

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These precious few seconds might be the difference between life and death for the person involved in the accident. This developing technology is the outcome of Nissan’s latest research project “Brain-to-Vehicle” aka B2V. This technology uses your reaction to driving and then translates into car reacting to these reactions. Not just your reactions, says techguru website TechCrunch,“the neural interface, which can not only improve reaction times, but also manage cabin comforts based on signals it takes from your brain, is one of the things Nissan will be showing off at CES this year.” Nissan unveiled this B2V technology and showed how this tech improves reaction times from 0.5 to 0.2 seconds. This seems like a small amount of time however, research shows that these few seconds are what is needed in almost 90% of crash cases. This technology could be further used to control more parts of the car, by detecting the driver’s discomfort. This could lead to greater innovations which could provide increased support to the driver. “Anticipating things like braking, applying the accelerator, or anticipating turns, Nissan could develop great advanced driver assistance (ADAS) features, or it could help bridge the gap between semi-autonomous and autonomous vehicles more safely. It could also help with non-driving functions; Nissan imagines being able to detect discomfort from a driver, which could lead to changing the way the vehicle drives in order to fit the driver’s expectations – and potentially using augmented reality to change what the driver sees to make the driving environment more amenable to safe conduct on the road.” Here’s to hoping that Nissan rolls out this new technology soon and we can find out whether this tech actually works or will this result in a lot of crashes? Only time will tell!