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It's funny because if they tried to replace key locks with fingerprint readers there'd be an immediate lawsuit over accessibility despite far more than 85% of p
by causi 4y ago
It's funny because if they tried to replace key locks with fingerprint readers there'd be an immediate lawsuit over accessibility despite far more than 85% of people having usable fingers.
- orangepanda 4y agoWhile I do have mostly usable fingers, fingerprint readers do not like me; my hands are consistently too sweaty
- aequitas 4y agoAlso fingerprint readers and indoor rock climbing don't go well together. At a job I had I needed to have my fingerprint reprogrammed every week or so because enough had rubbed off during climbing that it was not similar enough.
- temp_account_32 4y agoI have palmar hyperhidrosis as well. What helps is either clinical strength antiperspirant (something like DriClor) or iontophoresis.
- causi 4y agoDriClor seems to have no effect on me at all. Regular anti-perspirant works better for me.
- tuetuopay 4y agoYou'd exclude most elderly people whose fingerprints have faded away, or people with hands a bit too moist for the print to register, etc.
- rascul 4y agoMy fingers get cut, scraped, and burned enough during the course of a typical work week that fingerprint readers just don't work for me in general. My fingers are very usable but my fingerprints can sometimes be unusable.
- Arrath 4y agoOver a career of working with caustic cleaning chemicals and other stuff, my father's fingerprints are just about entirely gone. The last time he went in for fingerprinting they tried him on the scanner for nearly an hour before making an exception to the "electronic prints only" rule and broke out the ink pad and did it the old fashioned way.
- dingaling 4y agoElectronic "fingerprint" readers most commonly analyse the blood vessels under the skin, not traditional finger skin patterns.