The latest Hyundai Santa Fe comes equipped with a fingerprint-enabled unlocking and starting system – as long as it is for the China market. For this market, the vehicle itself is 16 cm longer than the domestic South Korean model, and will go on sale in China sometime in the first quarter of 2019, according to the Korea Herald.
As with the Santa Fe meant for overseas markets, the one bound for China will also get the Rear Occupant Alert – which uses an ultrasonic sensor to detect the movements of children and pets – in order to safeguard against forgotten occupants in the second row.
The security system will enable multiple users to register their fingerprint data for the same vehicle, according to Hyundai, which will make it more accessible to members of the same household, for example. This data can then tailor certain settings to the driver, such as the position of the seat and the rear-view mirrors. Future updates could extend personalisation to air-conditioning and steering settings, the automaker adds.
The fingerprint sensor uses capacitance for identification, as it differentiates between electricity levels on different parts of the finger. This is to prevent hacking or faked fingerprints, according to Engadget. The system will receive users’ encrypted fingerprint data before unlocking the car, and has an error rate of one in 50,000, according to Hyundai.
Other modern electronic conveniences for the China-market Santa Fe include a Baidu voice recognition system and a wireless mobile device charger. Elsewhere, fingerprint recognition has already been applied to cars, though this is the first that has been integrated into the door handle.
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Chop the fingers to steal the car.
Handsome looking Kimchi
Carry my drunk Handsome looking Kimchi boy finger to steal the car
Kia looks better than Hyundai
john-Pop likes Proton
Hyundai is like Prootn, no RV. 2nd year just buy their cars on mudah for 50% off.
“The fingerprint sensor uses capacitance for identification, as it differentiates between electricity levels on different parts of the finger. This is to prevent hacking or faked fingerprints, according to Engadget.”
Chopped fingers no longer have electric static.
Unless finger, chop own finger, attach finger.
Waw! Habisla X70 if Santa Fe in here is equiped with this fingerprint sensor
Easier to steal keys than to chop off a finger , don’t use key la
With today tech, you have to make sure the blood still warm and flowing inside the chopped finger or else it won’t work as well.
Habislah Boyue..
Thats pretty dangerous. All insurance company should include thumb secure in policy. Just in case being chopped.
Front like Maserati, back like BMW and interior like BMW…shame there is no originality in design. Whether you hate it or love it, at least Porsche has its inimitable design language. Others are just copycats…
Criminals will find a way to unlock . Just a matter of time.
A good car, with very good 5 star rating, but when reach to Malaysia, rating drops to 3.4 or 4.
Coz all active safety features are taken out.
Generally don’t believe all the bullshit by all the car company of their safety. Nowaday active safety are needed to score 5 star in europe and US. but generally when car come to ASEAN country which our life are much cheaper and weight in RM/Bath or Rupee, those safety are taken out.
After 2 years its value drops by 40%.
Soon car will need bigger capacity batteries to juice up all that techno gadgetry on board!