Google patents sticky coating to glue pedestrians to bonnet after crash - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Google has patented a sticky coating for driverless cars that could reduce damage done to pedestrians in the event of a collision. People struck by the vehicle would become glued to its bonnet, rather than being thrown off and further injured. One transport safety professor said the concept could reduce injuries sustained in a pedestrian collision. Google did not say whether it intended to implement the idea in its driverless vehicles. "It does have some merit to it," said Andrew Morris, Professor of Human Factors in Transport Safety at Loughborough University. "When pedestrian accidents happen, often the person is thrown up onto the bonnet and there may be injuries from that contact, but sometimes there are not. "But when a driver brakes in a collision, a totally natural reaction, the pedestrian is thrown onto the ground and you can get injuries from that contact." Google's patent explained that the adhesive layer would be hidden under a protective coating, to ensure it did not gather debris during journeys. "Upon the initial impact between the colliding object and the vehicle, the coating is broken, exposing the adhesive layer," the patent document said. [/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36332146"]Source[/URL]

So instead we get flayed when the driver stops? [I]Thanks science.[/I]

Now we can live out Katamari Damacy with our cars

One problem - highway debris?? You'd have rocks and planks and woodland critters and shit stuck to your hood all the time. Not to mention how obviously abusable this is for vandals. Hell, even hail would fuck it up, judging from how it's explained in the article. [quote]Google's patent explained that the adhesive layer would be hidden under a protective coating, to ensure it did not gather debris during journeys. "Upon the initial impact between the colliding object and the vehicle, the coating is broken, exposing the adhesive layer," the patent document said.[/quote] All this means is that dust or bugs won't trip it, but if a rock bounces up onto your hood - maybe falling off a truck or kicked up by the vehicle in front of you, or if there's a 2x4 in the road or something - anything hitting the car hard enough to scuff the paint before will now stick to it as well to add insult to injury.

Now instead of tossed around like a ragdoll, we can get stuck to the front and crushed against a wall!

[QUOTE=Grenadiac;50350544]One problem - highway debris?? You'd have rocks and planks and woodland critters and shit stuck to your hood all the time. Not to mention how obviously abusable this is for vandals. Hell, even hail would fuck it up, judging from how it's explained in the article. All this means is that dust or bugs won't trip it, but if a rock bounces up onto your hood - maybe falling off a truck or kicked up by the vehicle in front of you, or if there's a 2x4 in the road or something - anything hitting the car hard enough to scuff the paint before will now stick to it as well to add insult to injury.[/QUOTE] Would stop anything potentially flying through the windscreen and smashing you in the face though, I'd rather have a fucked up bonnet then for example a piece of rubble the size of a football fuck up my bonnet, then smash my windscreen and hit me in the face.

[QUOTE=Zergeant;50350548]Now instead of tossed around like a ragdoll, we can get stuck to the front and crushed against a wall![/QUOTE] I don't know which scenario you're thinking of but I've never heard of an accident while someone is driving towards a person at a wall.

[QUOTE=shakadamus;50350601]Would stop anything potentially flying through the windscreen and smashing you in the face though, I'd rather have a fucked up bonnet then for example a piece of rubble the size of a football fuck up my bonnet, then smash my windscreen and hit me in the face.[/QUOTE] Usually thats what helmets are designed for, so if something smashes in, it wont hit you in the face.

Did Google forget to publish their april fool's joke this year, or do they actually think an idea this stupid is a good one?

[QUOTE=Exploders;50350615]Usually thats what helmets are designed for, so if something smashes in, it wont hit you in the face.[/QUOTE] Ah yes, how could he forget about the [I]car driving helmet[/I].

[QUOTE=hoodoo456;50350621]Did Google forget to publish their april fool's joke this year, or do they actually think an idea this stupid is a good one?[/QUOTE] Companies patent all manners of stupid ideas. If they think they got the idea first and it's not patented, they'll patent it just in event of it being useful at some point in time. Stuff like laughter detectors or ad breaks that require the viewer to get up and shout the brand out loud to close the ad, shit that'll never be used.

How would they un-sticky the car after something hits it?

Uh I'd rather be thrown 50 feet.

[QUOTE=hijacker;50350798]Uh I'd rather be thrown 50 feet.[/QUOTE] yeah if I somehow manage to get myself hit by a self driving car despite its omnipresent awareness being enough to stop that happening in most cases, I don't wanna be all sticky for the rest of the day. That'd be embarrassing!

Yeah this'll be fine until that time someone is stuck to a car that flips over and crushes them to death, and then it'll never be used again. Next idea.

[QUOTE=Grenadiac;50350544]One problem - highway debris?? You'd have rocks and planks and woodland critters and shit stuck to your hood all the time. Not to mention how obviously abusable this is for vandals. Hell, even hail would fuck it up, judging from how it's explained in the article. All this means is that dust or bugs won't trip it, but if a rock bounces up onto your hood - maybe falling off a truck or kicked up by the vehicle in front of you, or if there's a 2x4 in the road or something - anything hitting the car hard enough to scuff the paint before will now stick to it as well to add insult to injury.[/QUOTE] But it does ensure that anything which normally might bounce off of the hood and then break the windshield instead will just stick to the hood. I think it's a pretty cool concept, as long as vandals don't fuck with it. But hey, it's Google; they'll probably come out with a physical security system for the driverless cars which will verbally warn anybody who comes within x centimeters that the car is outfitted with high def cameras. And it'll use facial recognition/plate scanning software to determine which language it should speak in.

[QUOTE=Axznma;50350984]Yeah this'll be fine until that time someone is stuck to a car that flips over and crushes them to death, and then it'll never be used again. Next idea.[/QUOTE] Are you some kind of mutant that can survive being struck by a car going fast enough to get flipped in the first place?

I can't decide whether its a good or terrible thing for when the zombie apocalypse arrives.

[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;50351094]Are you some kind of mutant that can survive being struck by a car going fast enough to get flipped in the first place?[/QUOTE] Cars do not need to go fast to flip over.

I don't think I'd want to be glued to the bonnet in case of a car accident.

Can confirm most of the damage I sustained the last time I got hit by a car didn't come from the car, but rather the pavement a second after

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Wouldn't scratching your car just be that much worse if the area you scratch just becomes sticky?

Yeah i'd imagine quite a lot of fatalities happen not when the pedestrian hits the car, but when their head smacks the pavement. This is a good idea.

alternatively this makes collecting trophies for serial hit and runners much easier

Watch people purposely jump on the hood and ride around the city

Another case of a good idea being called stupid for asinine reasons because people aren't used to it yet I remember when google first announced its driverless car a bunch of people were saying that it would be awful and murder the entire human race too

Ill say it and say it again, Google may be able to get a car to drive itself but they are morons about how the cars will actually be used

ISIS have expressed an interest in this.

[QUOTE=Axznma;50350984]Yeah this'll be fine until that time someone is stuck to a car that flips over and crushes them to death, and then it'll never be used again. Next idea.[/QUOTE] Unless you're taking a shit in the middle of a highway any car that hits you probably isn't going to flip