Future Hyundai models will be open by fingerprint

17 December 2018

In South Korea held a presentation of new technology

The vast majority of cars can be opened using the key or key FOB. Some companies are taking innovative methods of identification of the owner. This can be a smartphone or plastic card with NFC. Such a scheme, for example, integrated into the "Tesla". But why use third-party objects, if the driver can be identified using the fingerprint? So was thinking to Hyundai during the development of new technology.

Of course, in the principle of human identification by fingerprints is nothing new. This method is widely used in the field of mobile phones for five years, and in some equipment, this principle has been implemented for many years before that. But such technology is not immediately reach the automotive industry.

It is expected that through the fingerprint scanner will only unlock the doors but to start the engine. The system can register multiple drivers in case if one car is shared among multiple family members or employees.

Interesting point: the machine will learn to remember individual settings for each driver. For example, it can adjust the position of mirrors, seats and steering wheel (of course, this would require the presence of appropriate drives).

The first car with a built-in fingerprint scanner will be the new Hyundai Santa Fe for the Chinese market. It will go on sale in the first quarter of 2019.

It is assumed that the fingerprint sensor manufacturers will be able not only to provide customers a new convenient function, but also to enhance the security and burglar resistance machines. The pattern of fingerprints is different even in identical twins, and the probability of error identification system — one to 50 thousand.