Pilots’ brains will soon be remotely monitored to see if they are in control using brain scanners built into their helmets.
Military commanders will be able to see if a pilot is not responding to a warning light and take over the plane if they are about to crash.
The advanced sensors - in the pilot’s helmet - could also give an indication if they have gone unconscious and allow base control to step in.
The development has been possible thanks to a breakthrough in electroencephalographic (EEG) brain monitoring technology.
Until now the process involved test subjects wearing a heavy cap with lots of wires attached to it in order to be scanned.
Users also had to stay still as movement of parts of the face could interfere with the signal.
The new developments were lead by Scott Makeig, director of the University of California, San Diego's Swartz Centre for Computational Neuroscience.
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