I'd be curious as to why you think that. After all, Toyota's been using touch-activated locks for nearly a decade, and while there are some problems with that, those problems aren't "the lock stopped working"...
Tom bought his lock after seeing it in use on my house-- it's a Kevo, if you're interested in looking it up. Anyway, ours is approaching 20 months, with very few problems post-installation.
We've had three firmware updates in that time, so it's clear that to some degree the technology is still emerging, but the lock itself works just fine. (As Alexx notes below, it also uses a traditional key, as a backup-- and in fact is specifically designed to appear like just an ordinary residential-grade exterior deadbolt (which is what it is, really-- the electronics are all external to the lock itself, packed into a box on the interior side of the door).
One of the nicest features is that I can send a virtual key to someone (and can revoke that key, whenever I choose).
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Tom bought his lock after seeing it in use on my house-- it's a Kevo, if you're interested in looking it up. Anyway, ours is approaching 20 months, with very few problems post-installation.
We've had three firmware updates in that time, so it's clear that to some degree the technology is still emerging, but the lock itself works just fine. (As Alexx notes below, it also uses a traditional key, as a backup-- and in fact is specifically designed to appear like just an ordinary residential-grade exterior deadbolt (which is what it is, really-- the electronics are all external to the lock itself, packed into a box on the interior side of the door).
One of the nicest features is that I can send a virtual key to someone (and can revoke that key, whenever I choose).