08.04.2011                      04.Nisan, 5771

Schabbat-Ruhe:

Will rabbis allow brainy Shabbat driving?

Rabbis will be debating whether a vehicle one merely sits in and drives solely with brain activity can be used on Shabbat.

As the interface between brain and machine moves from science fiction to reality, rabbis will be debating whether a vehicle one merely sits in and drives solely with brain activity can be used on Shabbat.
This intriguing thought was discussed on Thursday by Rabbi Dr. Dror Fixler, an electrooptics engineer at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, who was one of the speakers at Thursday’s 18th Torah and Science Conference of the Jerusalem College of Technology, Yeshiva University in Israel and BIU….