Vehicle Identification Technology
There has been an interesting piece of research by a researcher in Japan who has announced that he has created an interesting type of identification technology that would use biometrics in order to make sure that a car would not otherwise be stolen. Amazingly, the technology would use an imprint of a person’s rear end as a method that would offer a very unique type of identification. The inventor of the technology is an associate professor at a school in Tokyo called the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology and developed the technology only recently.
The technology would employ a map of the expected pressure placed into the seat of the car that would be used to uniquely identify a driver of the vehicle. So far tests have been quite accurate with less than a one percent rate of the error. Apparently there are almost forty unique indices used to identify the exact pressure points that would be expected in a car seat for the average person.
One of the concerns of the system so far is the idea that sometimes biometric information that is gathered such as fingerprinting or facial recognition can be dependent on a variety of external factors that cannot be fully accounted for within the technology itself. The way that the researcher expects to get around this issue is that there are some very unchanging elements of a person’s body that can be used as permanent markers and identification aspects for the program in the future when it is expanded beyond vehicles.
