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In The Future We Will Start Cars With Our Butts

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[center][img]http://www.incrediblethings.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Japanese-Car-Seat-Butt-Recognition.jpg[/img][/center][center][color=#EEEEEE][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]A group of Japanese researchers at the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology have developed a car seat that can identify drivers while they're sitting down[/font][/color][/center][left][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3]You know how in futuristic movies they use retinal scans for security and the only way to get into the secret room is to cut out someone else’s eyeballs? Yeah, I don’t want to live in that future. Although I’d take a retinal scan over a rectal scan any day. Oh wait, that’s not what butt recognition means. Let me start over. So apparently some researchers in Japan designed a car seat that uses sensors to measure a person’s specific weight and ass-shape. This technology would keep the car from starting for anyone other than the owner… or the owner’s exact ass twin I guess.[/size][/font][/color][/left][center][color=#000000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][img]http://images.gizmag.com/inline/seatdetector-0.jpg[/img][/size][/font][/color][/center][left][size=4][color=#444444][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]The way the technology works is pretty simple. The seat is retrofitted with 360 different sensors. Those sensors take into account things like your weight, the highest value of pressure on the seat, and where you come in contact with the seat. The idea is that we all sit in car seats relatively the same way each time, so the seat should be able to tell who is sitting in it, ensuring that the person is the owner of the car rather than a car thief.[/font][/color][/size][/left][center][color=#444444][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif][img]http://images.gizmag.com/inline/seatdetector-1.jpg[/img][/font][/color][/center][left][color=#444444][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]While it seems like the tech might be problematic, the researchers claim the seat is able to accurately identify the person sitting in it 98 percent of the time. That's a pretty impressive accuracy rate, but it also means that one in every 50 times the seat would in theory not be able to recognize you, potentially resulting in your inability to drive your own car. It's also not clear how the seat would deal with things like weight loss or gain, the wearing of unusual clothing, or injuries that might effect how you sit down.[/font][/color][/left][left][color=#444444][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]The [url="http://aiit.ac.jp/english/"]AIIT[/url] researchers hope to work with car companies to bring the tech to vehicles as an anti-theft features in the next two to three years.[/font][/color][/left][left][b][color=#444444][font=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Source: [/font][/color][/b][url="http://www.incrediblethings.com/tech/in-the-future-we-will-start-cars-with-our-butts/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IncredibleThings+%28Incredible+Things%29"]http://www.incrediblethings.com/tech/in-the-future-we-will-start-cars-with-our-butts/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IncredibleThings+%28Incredible+Things%29[/url][/left]

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