Google Patents Self-Driving Car That Glues Pedestrians To The Hood In A Crash (cnn.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Google just got a patent for a special kind of coating on self-driving cars that could help prevent pedestrian injuries. The company wants to coat autonomous vehicles with a sticky substance so that if they hit a pedestrian, the person would be glued to the car instead of flying off. "[The pedestrian] is not thrown from the vehicle, thereby preventing a secondary impact between the pedestrian and the road surface or other object," says the patent, granted on Tuesday. Google explains that an "adhesive layer" would be placed on the hood, front bumper and front side panels of a car. A thin coating would protect it until an impact occurred. Google is paying Arizona residents $20 per hour to test its self-driving vehicles.

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KATAMARI DAMACY 2017 MODEL

[Anonymous Coward]

with all the options

Great!

[Narcocide]

Auto safety features inspired by Carmageddon. That's just what we needed.

adds a new meaning

[Black Parrot]

to the term "bumper sticker".