If you think car personalisation is all stickers on the windscreen and dodgy personal number plates, then think again: Lexus has designed a car that reflects the driver’s actual heart beat.

The adapted Lexus RCF, a joint initiative between M&C Saatchi Australia, Tricky Jigsaw and Lexus Australia, uses a standard heartbeat monitor, which sends the driver’s heartbeat to a control board at the rear of the vehicle. The monitor than takes this signal and displays it in what Mashable calls “a pre-determined, pulsating pattern” on the car’s panels.

Ben Cooper, innovation director at M&C Saatchi, tells Mashable that the design could be used for indicating turns and acceleration. But, frankly, who cares when it looks this cool?

Sadly, there are no plans to make this into a standard feature.

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