Using MRI and other technology, DaimlerChrysler's research center in Ulm is studying the brains of drivers as they interact with cars.

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"It's a little like mind reading, " says Henrik Walter, a neurologist and psychiatrist with the University Clinic of Ulm, Germany, where he conducts brain-imaging work for DaimlerChrysler.

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