Car Accessibility

Car Accessibility

1. Car Accessibility

   • Car Accessibility
     • Fingerprint
       • Personally my favourite option. I like the idea of having a scanner on the side of the door handle which detects the users finger and opens the door for them, it could almost act like an iphone fingerprint scanner in the way that to set up the fingerprint you have to choose an option on the touch screen inside the car and select 'Finger print'. It would then ask the user to place certain fingers on a scanner in multiple angles to get a full scan of the fingers pattern. An option could be selected to make the car only accessible by fingerprint. This idea could also be applied to the engine button.
         • Effectiveness: Extremely secure as its a personal fingerprint that no-one else has. 10/10
         • Integration: can be integrated seamlessly behind doors or on the steering wheel. My favourite choice and is the one I would like to explore in more in depth. 10/10
         • Time to use: would be almost instant, the finger must be placed into a dry surface, so it might not work properly if its wet or if user is wearing gloves. 8/10
     • Key pad
       • This is always an option but I struggle to see a key pad looking fresh and clean in a car as well as being useful but if you needed to input a 4-8 digit code to start your car I could personally see that becoming extremely inconvenient, slow and in general awkward.
         • Effectiveness: Very effective as a locking mechanism, however overall it isn't very useful. 4/10
         • Integration: could be integrated into the cars dashboard but would look out of place and would take up a large amount of space. 6/10
         • Time to use: Would take much longer than the other ideas, but this is dependent on the length of the passcode. 5/10
     • Key
       • The most common way to open a car is a car key. Every car comes with one and they can easily open the car. The only issue with these types of keys is the fact that they can easily be lost of broken. These keys have two ways of accessing the car. The first one is a standard key that enters the doors lock mechanism and unlocks the car doors, the second one is a lock and unlock button on the keys which unlocks and locks the car
         • Effectiveness: Very effective at opening and locking doors, but can be lost easily if not looked after. Some keys are battery operated so the button aspect can be completely lost. 7/10
         • Integration: not really integrated into the car but can be placed into a little port in the car to keep it secure, usually just placed on a key chain. 1/10
         • Time to use: Takes longer when using the key normally but the button option is almost instant locking and opening. 10/10
     • Bluetooth Key
       • A bluetooth key is a good option as it allows for the key to be on the users phone, something that they would always have on them, which means they wouldn't be able to lose the key as the phone needs to be opened
         • Effectiveness: Very easy to use and extremely efficient when opening and locking. 8/10
         • Integration: Application is on the users phone which allows for easy and quick access, seamless. 6/10
         • Time to use: Time is almost instant, only downside would be opening the application and the distance the Bluetooth can reach. 8/10
     • Voice Recognition
       • Cars already have voice recognition but not to open the car or at least on a smaller scale. Voice recognition is used so people don't have to look at their phones when driving, for example they can say 'Whats the weather like today?' and the car will answer via the use of Google. Voice rec could be used to open and lock the car or to start the engine. The car would ask for certain sentences for the user to say and then they would be able to remotely open the car with their voice. This would be very useful if the client has their hands full or can't use their hands to access the car
         • Effectiveness: Very effective and would be very useful when driving as you could use hands free. 9/10
         • Integration: can easily be integrated into a cars dash or touch screen would also look sleek and very flush. 9/10
         • Time to use: would almost be instant but there's always the chance it may not detect the voice correctly if it was windy or raining. 7/10
     • Face Recognition
       • Not very practical as it would take a while for the face to be scanned properly and it would generally be faster to use a key. could be used inside a car to start the engine, for example in the mirrors could be face recognition that scan the face.
         • Effectiveness: Very low effectiveness as it would be inconvenient and slow to type in the pin code. 2/10
         • Integration: may sit quite sleek in the dashboard but otherwise would look rather out of place. 5/10
         • Time to use: Would take a long time to type in the passcode but this is completely passcode length dependent, if the code was only 4 digits long it would be much faster than an 8 digit code but also less safe. 1/10