Cars

You will find below cars, most often containing a fingerprint sensor. In some cases, I really don't know if the fingerprint reader of the concept car is a real one, sometimes, it is looking very strange ;-)

Non fingerprint-based cars are at the end of the page.

See also some add-on material, mainly for cars

Honda

• (1999) Honda FCX Card ignition key and fingerprint ID system on steering wheel. [Tokyo Motor Show 1999] / Again in 2005 with the FCX concept.

BMW

• (1999) BMW Z22 concept car. The fingerprint sensor is on the door.

Chrysler

• (2000) Chrysler 300 Hemi C concept car. Where is the fingerprint sensor? Close to the ignition key?
  A fingerprint scanner hooked up to a tiny camera provides added security, important in any vehicle and especially in a soft top convertible. The vehicle will not function if the driver's fingerprint and picture don't match the system's information.

• (2017 Jan) Chrysler shows the Portal, a concept car with voice and face recognition at the CES.

Cadillac

• (2000) Cadillac Imaj
  A special "e-lock" security system opens and locks the vehicle using fingerprint recognition

Volvo

• (2001 Jan) Volvo SCC (Safety Concept Car) with a fingerprint reader in remote control unit (the Volvo Personal Communicator VPC), sensor from Fingerprint Cards

Audi

• (2001 Dec) Audi concept or personalization

Audi Nuvolari / concept car / glovebox

• (2003 Mar) Audi Nuvolari
• Close view of glovebox, 65000 electrodes

Audi A8

• (Jul 2002) Audi A8: One-touch memory / Siemens VDO, Infineon fingerprint sensor.

• Audi A8 starting with a fingerprint sensor.
• (2007) The Audi S8 still offers the same fingerprint sensor.

Suzuki

Suzuki Concept-S / concept car

• (2002 Sep) Suzuki Concept-S

Suzuki "Sea" Forenza Wagon / concept car

• (2005 Oct) "Sea" Forenza Wagon with the SmartPass Pro biometric technology for locking/unlocking the doors. A fingerprint reader is on the back door: I wonder which sensor it is, a round fingerprint sensor is quite uncommon!

Bertone

• (2002 Mar) Bertone Novanta concept car with an optical fingerprint reader from Green Bit located in the central console.

VolksWagen

• (2005 Oct) EcoRacer concept-car with a fingerprint sensor in the shift gear.

Mitsubishi

• (2006 Jan) Mitsubishi unveils the Concept-CT car.
  (The fingerprint sensor should be in the center console?!?).

Citröen

• (2008 Aug) Citröen shows the C6 Palas at the British Motor Show with a fingerprint sensor to access email.

Opel

• (2010 Feb) Opel unveils a concept car, the Flextreme GT/E, with a fingeprint sensor.

Bentley

• (2018 Mar) Bentley offers a biometric secure stowage for the Mulliner and Bentayga.

Hyundai

• (2018 Nov) Hyundai Santa Fe with fingerprint unlocking for China.

Mercedes-Benz

• (2020 Jul) Meet the S-Class DIGITAL: "My MBUX" (Mercedes-Benz User Experience).
  fingerprint + face + voice. Rien que ça!

Iris

A rather unusual application in a car: using the iris as biometric trait.

• Automobile security / United Linker showing Retinasafe-18, which is not a retinal system, but an iris.

Gentex

• (2020 Jan) Gentex. Since 2017, Gentex shows at the CES iris recognition for cars in the rearview interior mirror.

Vein

• (2005 nov) Hitachi demonstrated at the 2005 Tokyo Motor Show a sensor positioned behind the door handle that uses near-infrared light to recognise the pattern of veins across the back of a person's fingers. The handle is designed to guide a driver's hand into the same position each time they open the door, ensuring the finger veins are in the same place for each reading. (Newscientist.com)

• (2007 Oct) Hitachi proposes a finger vein reader behind the steering wheel.
  
  
  See also the vein page for more info on vein recognition.