Forget keys, soon you could open your car with a SELFIE: Jaguar Land Rover patents facial recognition technology

Motorists could soon unlock the doors of their car simply by walking up to it and taking a selfie. Jaguar Land Rover is developing technology that uses facial recognition and gait analysis to detect when owners of its vehicles approach, to open the doors for them. Details have been revealed in a recently published patent application by Jaguar Land Rover, but it is unclear when the technology might become available. Two cameras on each side of the vehicle would be angled so the car could spot someone approaching from the front or from behind. The user of the vehicle must carry out a registration process which requires them to record a still image of their face and a moving image such as a hand gesture or their gait as they approach the vehicle. The video of a person walking towards the car would then be compared to these original images using gait or movement recognition technology.