Using Mind Control to Drive a Car

it's 2018 we're living in the goddamn future Elon Musk is forcibly willing self-driving cars into existence I drank so much caffeine but then you think to yourself my computer crashes when I play fortnight's sometimes do I really want that same technology controlling my two-ton death machine as I barreled down the highway at 80 miles an hour so I was thinking after I drank the caffeine what people really want in a driverless car and you don't want Jeff Bezos is uploaded consciousness dictating where do you want to go no what you want is the ability to not focus on the road to not have to hold your arms on that steering wheel or keep your foot on the accelerator be [ __ ] to hit the brake when a small child wanders out in the street but the catch is you still want to be in control of the car don't you lazy and that's honestly fine because generally human beings are pretty safe pretty good drivers it's usually never the humans fault when an accident occurs and so the solution became so clear so painstakingly obvious it's not self controlled cars it's mind control drive yep that's um that's what we're doing in it now look I know what you're thinking the fact I'm thinking it too Michael you're an [ __ ] there's no such thing as a mind controlled car in fact there's no such thing as mind control right sorry [ __ ] oh you're one for two there's such a thing as mind control sort of remember those Star Wars Force trainer toys that were being sold a few years ago I always thought that those were garbage but as it turns out these headsets actually contain neuro sky EEG chip which through electroencephalography reads different brain waves so it might sound like insane fugu magic but different brainwave frequencies tend to mean different things brain waves between eight Hertz and 12 Hertz tend to mean that you are more focused brainwave frequencies between 16 and 31 tend to mean you're a little more calm a little more meditative and this particular EEG chip reads both of those those are alpha and beta waves so am I going to be able to think about my car turning right and it's just gonna magically turn right no of course not but being able to focus and have my car accelerate sounds like an awesome step forward in the world of brink and all right so I got the headset on don't laugh so we can see exactly what those brainwaves look like I'll show you how I parse the brainwave data coming from the headset and don't worry I hear you guys loud and clear I'm not gonna include any code I know it's boring for you so don't worry [ __ ] you here's the code you will honestly think I listen to what my audience says and this is actually just the Arduino brain library that I imported for c-sharp but the charting and like focus detection algorithms I did knows I'm not really gonna get into it because that bores even me but all it does is read the data coming from this and display it on the screen so here's the software now if I turn the headset on you should start to see my alpha values or focus values appearing on the screen no they are right there and a really interesting number to pay attention to is this full focus average number now even as I start talking you're gonna see it start to go up because I'm focusing on talking to the camera so that's really cool and like if I zone out it'll drop pretty drastically so that's the number we're gonna be using to gauge when we should make the car accelerate as an example I have a light on an Arduino and I'm going to turn it on using just focus all right I'm gonna try really hard to unfocus so that it detects like a spikes and focus shouldn't be hard for a person like me [Music] and horse I bet I can hook this up to my lights all right we got our dueño attached the brain software attached to relay attached to lighting extension cord never do this never do anything that's dangerous I am allowed to do this because I make videos and put them on the internet but never ever do that alright awared if somebody like should turn off when I focus just give me a second to zone [Music] oh it's sick all right awesome I'll just click pay the [ __ ] out of that control lights with your brain question mark top ten youtubers who have used mind control that's it that's the end of the video thanks for watching guys just kidding I upload like once a decade so I kind of feel obligated to hook this up to a car so the thing is I'm visiting my family on Maui right now so my piece-of-shit car is on a different Island so what I did was borrow my dad's piece-of-shit car and just didn't tell him what I was doing with it it looks like this what hello we're here at the windiest [ __ ] parking lot we could find on the island of Maui we chose this specifically because we have the ocean behind us so if I lose control of the car we have you know the nice soft depths of the ocean to cushion any crash so that's really nice I don't know where I was going with this puzzle thing all right so all the components are here you got the Arduino which is communicating with my computer back there in the back seat which the community paid in with the headset there Arduino is going to tell a reel and here to tell a solenoid here to engage this piston here to accelerate the car all right we have an electronic kill switch in case stuff goes bad we also have a mechanical kill switch which is my right leg kicking out the piston so we're kind of set in terms of safety also I'm not wearing a helmet because it would block the the mind-reading headset so safety third kids so the solenoid has a manual button and I can show you what it looks like when the piston engages so if I hit this the system gates down there it's not attached to the accelerator because I don't want to fly into the ocean right now that can be in the next video though we'll attach the piston to the accelerator when we're ready to drive with our brains now we don't need a strap that [ __ ] stick hard bring it is it I'm we're alright so this is what its gonna look like when we accelerate with just like steam dangerous that's alright do you want to just I can just I'll Drive it I can just test drive it with like the manual thing first just to see a salary that's not fun yeah alright so I'm gonna try manually driving with the piston no mind control right now just to test out how things work I'm not gonna put my foot on the accelerator at all there wasn't any room to do that anyways I'm just gonna drive with the manual piston control [Laughter] it's a little bit sensitive that's fine oh no I don't have my seatbelt on I forgot safety with a number three priority I feel like it goes without saying - never in a million years try this at home whether or not you have the means to do it it seems like a terrible idea we're ready to try controlling with the brain now yeah yeah it's about brain okay that was um stressful so now I mean the only logical thing to do is for the brain right yeah aren't you alright got the stuffing running on my computer um I think we're all about ready to try accelerating with the brain which is wait for some of the focus values the focus threshold looks like maybe a little too low so maybe we'll make that hi Bobby kill switch feel search came in handy that time I'm glad I put that yeah it was a one-pump chump but then with the mind it was like so oh you can't even hear the real life it's oh that would be me flying across the car off and turn Oh put the kill switch alright so I lowered no no I raise the threshold of what it takes to constitute a focus trigger for it to hit the accelerator that was a little harsh that was a little low I didn't concentrate very hard at all and and it took off alright so everything is good to go looks like oh wait why it's not sugar it said that it was oh the kill switch is off alright trying it again with with a slightly higher focus threshold value oh let's just wait for some of those values to propagate across the graph yes oh my god oh my god I know I'm just kind of sign out right [Music] this is working like [ __ ] better than I thought it would yes that was like that was way more effective you want to do one with you in a car compromise I don't think Jeremy wants to die behind the wheel so we're gonna put the headset on him so it's gonna be his brain controlling the accelerator and I'm gonna be controlling the brakes and steering is this son good you camera Jerry all right Jeremy you got sit on how you feel about this one pretty good sure I'm not behind the wheel still in the car you got brakes I just left inside the car I'm gonna put it in Drive and we can you can click that little checkbox whenever you're ready Jeremy that's all you good thoughts Jeremy think about it measured spikes in focus so if you like D focus yourself and then really concentrate looks like it's going out as much as before close your eyes flip the counts we do have to restart the software though cuz the kill switch oh you look like looking at different things kind of change focus to sometimes just little spikes where it'll just actuate for like a millisecond and then [Music] take us around one more time cameraman Jeremy alright that was a pretty that was a good experience I flipped the kill switch right alright okay um that's the number that thanks for watching everybody I feel like how do I ask for a subscribers without it sounding like an [ __ ] smash that subscribe subscribe bot okay [Music]

Channel: Michael Reeves

Views: 9,397,204

Rating: 4.9718676 out of 5

Keywords: mind control, arduino, eeg, coding, automation, pneumatics, funny, self driving car, brain control interface, BCI, elon musk, satire

Id: mPbtR4vorgY

Length: 12min 46sec (766 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 23 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/Is_Lil_Jon]

This was a really fun watch

[u/poopfaceone]

this guy sounds like Aziz Ansari

[u/energycatalyst]

What sorcery is this!

[u/ieoz8]

The call of the void would be a fun ride