Thats awesome. I used to be in that exact situation every summer before going back to school. now a MS degree has led to a big boy job and no more summers.
The fingerprint sensor indeed starts the car. It also:
1) decides driving modes based on which finger authenticates
2) captures failed authentications, stores the fingerprint and grabs the GPS coordinates. Currently, it stores them to a local file, but as soon as my 3g chip comes in, I will offload all information real time to my own backend server. Now I will have the position of the car, the fingerprint of an offender trying to start the car and the ability to shut it down remotely.
And that is only 10% of Autöcar. System has been in development for over two years. You have some catching up to do!
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