First he developed Brain Age, a hit Nintendo DS game that helps keep people’s brains fit well into their golden years. Now, the same guy, Ryuta Kawashima, is working with Toyota to prepare cars that help the older folks who perhaps didn’t do all the mental calisthenics they should have.

The car systems, which will are now going into development, will be able to determine whether or not the driver was doing anything dangerous or erratic, and control for that or even act to prevent that kind of behavior.

There might

be a system that uses both climate control and navigation to assemble certain the drivers stay heads up, for instance. The system might automatically slows the car down whether it senses an irrational punch of the gas pedal. There’s no mention of the opposite, however. You know, the system that speeds the hell up when it determines that you’ve just merged onto a 75mph freeway and you’re only doing 34. [SMH]

Original post by Wilson Rothman