Visa shows in-car payments and with a wave of your hand
BARCELONA -- As Internet of Things devices become ubiquitous, consumers will someday pay for gas, parking and tolls from their cars without using a credit card or even stepping out of the vehicle.
Technology is also emerging that relies on a person's fingerprints recorded with the wave of a hand to make a payment without a card, smartphone or physical token.
At Mobile World Congress here, financial services company Visa and auto maker Honda showed off the capability to securely pay for parking and gas from a display inside the vehicle. Security for a user's Visa account would be stored, in encrypted form, on what's called a secure element stored on a chip in the cloud or in the car's brain, called the head unit.
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