‘Highly Reliable Anti-Theft System’ Identifies Car Owners by Their…Butts
- Posted on December 23, 2011 at 3:07pm by
Liz Klimas
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Forget eye scans or fingerprint sensors to prevent car theft, engineers have made identifying the owner of the car as easy as taking a seat.
Researchers at the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology have developed a car seat with sensors that essentially recognize the drivers buttprint. Tech Crunch reports that 360 sensors in tune with the shape of the drivers behind measure the pressure applied and confirm with a computer that the correct hiney is in the driver’s seat. Wired compares it to creating a topographic map of your, um, you know. It also says that if the map doesn‘t match what’s programed in the computer, then the car won’t move.
Wired reports that the researchers say the technology has been tested with 98 percent accuracy and that they are hoping to collaborate with car makers to bring this “highly reliable anti-theft system” to commercial cars in the next two to three years.
[H/T Popular Science]
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Comments (51)
RightPolitically
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:58pmBy smell or by girth?
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 7:03pmAsinine!
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 3:14amI couldn’t have put it better myself.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 10:21amWOW ! This sounds great !
My car will start 98 percent of the time !
That‘s only TWO percent of the time that my car won’t start !
Much better than that 100% reliability I get today, with ZERO percent failure !
#FAIL
RESTORING LOVE , July 26 27 28 , Dallas, TX
Report Post »http://www.meetup.com/MercuryOneHQ
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tharpdevenport
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 6:26pmMichelle Obama will need the Wide Width model.
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 6:08pmWhat happens when someone gains or loses about 100 pounds? I would imagine that your butt print would change.
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 7:23pmWhat happens, if, say, you get a light bulb stuck up there and haveto drive yourself to the hospital?
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 5:21pmExcuse me, I’d like to ass you a few questions.
Report Post »db321
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 5:56pmI don’t think this devise could pass the smell test.
Report Post »Poggle The Stick
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 5:09pmThey better include a system where you can ADD buttprints to the “accepted list”. And, hey, maybe they should make it so you can add people to the “rejected list”, like, your underaged teenager.
After all, more than one person sits in the driver seat SOMETIME during the car’s life.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 4:59pmThis technology should not fall into the hands of our Government, the Food Nazi Health Care planners. If our butts are too big, our car won’t start. We will be forced to walk and diet, until our butts are small enough to qualify to drive a car.
Report Post »common cents
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 4:51pmOk
Report Post »Code_red
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 4:39pmThey should create one by the smell of your farts! Now that would be impressive!
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 4:21pmWhose flipping money did they spend to come up with that??? Its a waste of time and money.. what if you have multiple family members driving the same car.. Or is it just a one butt car??? Idiots! God help us,, they have made a one butt seat!
Report Post »red_white_blue2
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 4:55pmI agree. How many times to family members lend a car to another licensed family member for whatever the reason maybe be. Is this the gov‘t way of making sure they can detain who they want to by shutting down the persons car by satellite they’ll know they isolated the right person.
Report Post »GodWillPrevail
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 5:01pmMost likely tied to the Android system. Thus you could authorize/de-authorize fairly easily.
Though I would think facial recognition would be better then you will have a video of the thief as well.
This is private money most likely. Private money funds most research for vehicles.
Report Post »Jeff Barton
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 12:04pm@red,white blue
Report Post »Nasa’s new mission to launch the “buttstar 2” satellite into geosychronis orbit around uranus to keep track of all those a__holes.
TeaPartyPatriot
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 4:14pm‘Highly Reliable Anti-Theft System’ Identifies Car Owners by Their…Butts
…will “Fat Cakes” michelle need TWO of these systems in her car ?
Report Post »armymp
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 4:09pmHelp… I have a hemorrhoid and my car won’t start : /
Report Post »2theADDLED
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 5:37pmHow does it work on gays ?
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 4:06pmSooo, you get pulled over and the officer asks “I need to see you license, registration and butt crack please”
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 4:05pmI thought traveling 20 light yrs. away to another planet was a better ideal.
Report Post »semihardrock
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 4:00pmAND if it is installed in Government Motors Chevy Volt…..It will tell you when you have eaten too much salt from your ars sweat!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 3:53pmSo, if I got a rhinoceros to drive…I could steal Michelle Obama’s car?
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 3:52pmI don‘t know why this wouldn’t work.
Report Post »I know thats how I pick Michelle Obama out of a crowd.
Can’t miss her!
Jeff Barton
Posted on December 24, 2011 at 12:07pmyes ociffer, thats the one.I’d know that butt anywhere.
Report Post »garyM
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 3:48pmIf they produce this car, be sure if you buy a used car, it did not previously belong to a democrat, they all are equal asses and anyone of them could steal you car!!
Report Post »johnsell
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 3:54pmRotflmao
Report Post »BornJewishMuslimByFaith
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 3:37pmWhat if you lose weight or even gain a few pounds after eating fast food.
Report Post »searching for the Truth
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 3:35pmWouldn’t do me any good – lost mine investing in possum bellies and pork fat.
Report Post »SFsuper49er
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 3:29pmThat’s all good but what if you gain or loose weight… We will have to invent something to keep our *ss the same size …Boy were smart !
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 3:33pmMy wife says I have no butt, so now what do I do?
Report Post »ACACIA
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 3:27pmmaybe michelle BO bama should be the first (1st) to own one for her big butt; since, she wants everyone to eat like she says not as she and BO bama do !!!!
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 4:03pmAhhhh the HIPPOcracy.
Report Post »CottonMPG
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 3:27pmIt is expensive enough to replace a key with a chip in it! Imagine having to replace the whole seat if it quits working! What happens if you lose or gain weight, get into an accident and get a bump? I guess you can’t carry anything in your back pocket.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 3:18pmGreat as if big sister and her reveal all scanners in the airports is bad enough; now were going to need tushie cam’s for starting cars.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on December 23, 2011 at 3:18pmnow we know all the Dems
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