Are Fingerprint Scanners For Real?

[KINGBOBOFTHENORTH]

When you enter one of the parks you insert your ticket into the machine and then place your finger onto the "scanner". Supposedly it scans your fingerprint and so that the ticket is matched to you. Thus, on a multi-day ticket, only you can use your ticket for subsequent visits. Supposedly.

Last weekend my DS and I swapped tickets....on purpose. And the turnstyle did not reject either of us for having the wrong fingerprint-ticket match.

So is this just all a bunch of b.s?

BobK/Orlando

 

[AJMlovesRLM]

I have often wondered this, too!

I am sure our family has mixed up our tickets before but we have never been stopped.

 

[safetymom]

Did you buy your tickets at the same time? They would be linked in the computer.

 

[noodleknitter]

We just hand out the tickets to each of our crowd, but they are all tagged together. First time in this year, I had to show my I.D. (I bought and used the tickets last year.)

 

[GrumpyOne]

I've done a little bit with biometrics, including fingerprint scanners.

Most scanners and their software can be configured with different amounts of flexibility. Imagine a clean fingerprint vs. the same one after working on the car. The scanner won't see the same information. The same thing happens to a lesser degree on vacation.

Prints get compressed, expand and contract (cool & dry inside vs. warm and humid outside) and get beat up. When you first arrive, your print may have been in air conditioning and hasn't been stressed. Five days later, you haven't seen much AC (so your print is a bit swollen), you've gotten a few scrapes and the guy bringing you from the parking lot was related to Mario Andretti so you were holding on real tight. The two prints won't be an exact match.

If you were Disney, would you want to deal with loads of irritated people who get stopped then are proven to have bought their ticket? Or would you prefer to turn down the accuracy until the complaints stop?

 

[ducklite]

I've put my finger on the scanner so it was more scanning my knuckle and it still worked. I've used my middle finger instead of index finger and it still worked. And I've used my index finger exactly like it should be, and at times it hasn't worked.

Anne