Nissan's Japanese R&D department plans on bringing a novel texture to their cars interiors. Their research has deduced that the most pleasant sensation to recline into is one which mimics the texture and softness of human skin.

What might sound odd and undesirable at first is backed up by thorough materials research. Existing car upholstery fashioned is fashioned from soft plastics. The Premium-fEEL interiors(PEEL) research team concluded that maximum comfort (or in the industry parlance, 'good feeling') occurs when the texture and resistance of the soft plastics approximate the resistance of a human finger pad and the roughness of a fingerprints surface (as illustrated in the diagram below).

Nissan's future care interiors will feature semi-aniline leather with a textured coating imprinted with the fingerprint patterns. All told, we're really not sure how we feel about this. But maybe the unavoidable mental images summoned by this creepy biomimcry will fade once we happen across these textures in the flesh.