Researchers made first steps towards controlling a car with brain power by just putting an EEG on the drivers head.
In my opinion it’s easier to let the car control itself and his way. But the possibility to give the car the route just by thoughts can be a further supplementing step in this area.
In my point of view the people who invented the EEG are the real ‘heros’ but the combination of that with a car is an exciting trend. And the researchers from AI group of ‘Freie Universität Berlin’ had done some more interesting work on car steering human machine interface:
[…fu-berlin.de: AutoNOMOS Labs]