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Google patents sticky layer to protect pedestrians in self-driving car accidents
- Mithaldu 10y agoActual patent: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=google.ASNM.&s2=9340178.PN.&OS=AN/google+AND+PN/9340178&RS=AN/google+AND+PN/9340178 http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H... In short: They propose having a frangible outer layer above the adhesive layer.
- tyingq 10y agoThe idea really is to glue the pedestrian you just hit to your hood. http://i.imgur.com/qlrbeCa.png http://i.imgur.com/qlrbeCa.png I'm curious in what situations this would end up being worse. I suppose Google seems confident it's usually better, but it just sounds bizarre.