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Every year, we hear stories about kids who have been left in cars while it’s parked outside. Sometimes these kids are lucky where passersby see them and get help, but sometimes it’s tragic and the kids die as a result of being stuck in a hot car. There are many reasons for this happening in the first place.

One of those reasons is that maybe parents completely forget that their kids are in the backseat, and this is a tragedy that Tesla is hoping to avoid. The company has filed a request for permission with the FCC to use short-range motion sensing radars that will be able to detect if kids are in the car, thus alerting the driver and reminding them.

While there have been systems designed in the past that use cameras, Tesla believes that radars might be better because unlike cameras, these radars can see through soft materials like blankets. It can also be used to detect breathing and heart rates, which could be a better indication of someone being in the car that is left unattended.

The technology won’t be limited to just kids. It could also be used to make airbags deploy more optimally during an accident, or it could also be used for more accurate seatbelt reminders. As the radar would be able to scan the exterior of the car, other potential uses include a more advanced theft prevention system.

Tesla Wants To Use Radar To Detect Kids Left In Hot Cars

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We’ve all heard about keys getting cloned, but that usually involves the person taking your actual key, making a mould, and then recreating that key. This means that if you never let your keys out of your sight, you’re usually safe. However, it seems that might not be that way anymore.

This is because researchers over at the National University of Singapore, they have created a program that when used together with your smartphone’s microphone, could actually clone your key. How this works is that when you insert a key into a door’s lock, the smartphone’s microphone will pick up on the sound made by the door’s lock pins as the key’s ridges move over them.

These sounds are then interpreted by the app to figure out the pattern in the ridges of your key, and then produce a set of keys that are similar to the key you used. According to the researchers, “[On] average, SpiKey is able to provide 5.10 candidate keys guaranteeing inclusion of the correct victim key from a total of 330,424 keys, with 3 candidate keys being the most frequent case.”

The researchers are also looking into potentially exploiting smart doorbell systems, where instead of using your phone’s microphone, they could also use the microphones from smart doorbell systems to pickup on the sounds as well.

Smartphones Could Be Exploited To Clone Our House Keys

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