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Neural acquisition
EEG · distributed sensing
- Distributed neural sensing
- Artifact filtering
- Real-time sampling
DriveState is the first neuroadaptive racing system. A helmet that reads the driver's cognitive state in real time — and a car that finally listens back.
Tyres, brakes, fuel, aerodynamics — every system in a Formula 1 car is instrumented to the millisecond.
The human behind the wheel is not. Cognitive overload, attention drift, the moments before a crash — none of it shows up in the telemetry until it shows up in the lap time, or the wreckage.
DriveState closes that loop. A new layer of telemetry that has never existed in motorsport.
Every parameter engineers spent a century tuning around the human now adapts to the human, lap by lap, corner by corner. Cognitive overload on lap 34? Brake bias shifts. Flow state with headroom? Energy deployment opens up. The car adjusts before the lap time drops.
Most crashes have a cognitive precursor — attention lapse, target fixation, decision paralysis — that shows up in the brain seconds before the wreckage. DriveState reads it. Not static armor like the halo, but dynamic protection that intervenes before impact.