How Do You Teach a Goldfish to Drive? First You Need a Vehicle

His case rests on a viral video he tweeted last month of a goldfish driving a water-tank-equipped robotic vehicle down the side of a street and inside his lab at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. The roboride was part of a scientific study to test whether goldfish had the mental acuity to navigate a terrestrial environment toward a target using a machine. The six goldfish that took part in driver's training passed their test. They weren't the first to cross the finish line. Other neuroscientists have taught rats to drive cars as part of experiments testing how experience affects learning.