Car Logins

If you share a car with other people, for example family members, then you probably know that it can be annoying to have to readjust the seat, mirrors, and sometimes radio presets every time you drive.

Well many keys have anti-theft chips installed in them. Many luxury cars have the side windows and seats on electric control.

Imagine if each driver had their own key that was color coded (to avoid mixup) and a small identification chip. When they turn on the car, the seats and mirrors could automatically readjust to wherever they were set the last time that same key was used to start up the car. Likewise each key could have its own set of radio presets.

Its almost like logging into a computer with a personalized desktop.

This wouldn't be hard to do. Just put a bit of memory storage in the car, and ensure that the seat and window controls are wired into the a central computer system.

If car companies really wanted to get fancy the information would be stored in the keys and be inter-compatible between cars. Perhaps a hypothetical 5 person family with 3 cars would then have 5 keys, 1 for each family member. Your presets could follow you around from car to car (separate seat adjustment data would likely be stored with each car). A particular car company offering such a feature would create incentive for families to purchase more than one car from that manufacturer.

You wouldn't need to share presets, or fiddle with the seat. Each and every time you drive things could be just the way you would like it.