When a man tried to enter his own house, his Nest doorbell got
suspicious and locked him out. Nest’s facial recognition feature
confused the man, B.J. May, with the Batman T-shirt he was wearing, and
apparently even Batman isn’t allowed through the front door without the
owner’s consent.
My @nest
doorbell automatically locks the front door when it sees a face it
doesn’t recognize. Today it didn’t recognize me, so I went into the app
to investigate and… pic.twitter.com/qcgE4Ii1pn
Nest was just following orders, and May didn’t hold a grudge. In a
later tweet he said, “To answer some questions: Yes, the door was
unlocked. My family was home, and my son was in/out the front door
playing. I unlocked the door using my pin. I also could have used the
phone app. It was no biggie, I just thought the face recognition fail
was funny.”
