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Posted on 05/20/2016 9:27:49 PM PDT by granite
Google knows that its self-driving cars are going to get into accidents — maybe even accidents involving pedestrians — and so the company has patented a unique solution to minimize injuries if this happens: human flypaper. The patent, granted earlier this week, describes "an adhesive layer positioned on the front end of the vehicle" that pedestrians will simply stick to "in the event of a collision."
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No way.
Way. Still LMAO.
Way!
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This rings of Richard Belzer’s old joke about the Gerpo. This thing will be programmed to roam the landscape capturing people to feed the Googlebeast.
Hey, wait a tick... I thought these systems were totally safe ?
If it works at all, it will have to be sticky enough to hold a body on the rebound - which is enough to rip your skin off!
LOL, anyone touching it casually (naw, that’ll never happen) will be stuck to it like super glue!
And what about dirt and leaves? How do you get them off?
ROFL!
Only thing it would do is help prevent the proverbial hit and run. The idiot driver can’t escape the victim. But, someone who truly wants to avoid being caught could drive the stuck victim somewhere and beat him to death, if he’s not dead already, then dump the body.
In our increasingly Mad Max world, people might collect pedestrians just for the fun of it.
What an idiotic, typically liberal idea.
I’m not exactly taking this seriously for reasons mentioned in post 7 but if you DID hit someone and tried to drive them somewhere remote to beat them to death... Wouldn’t you need to drive for at least several miles with a possibly screaming victim on your hood? It’s not exactly discreet. Even a rookie would be suspicious of cars with flailing hood people.
Easy to see who is too lazy to read the article ..
I saw an inventor’s sketch from the 1930s, where the bumper would break open and spill pellets with the car’s tag number on them, if the car hit a pedestrian. Never caught on, but an interesting idea.
For driverless cars.
It’s in the head line.
The cars will look a bit odd driving down the road with the top half of a human stuck to the hood, while the legs are left behind and the head goes through the windshield.
Guilty as charged. But now, having read it, the proposed eggshell solution seems mighty glib. I’d like to see a proof of concept of that.
The most hairbrained scheme I’ve heard of since the time Elliot Spitzer, when he was NY AG proposed serial nos. on bullets.
Google has really been using that flypaper to collect money. ;-)
At the end of the day, they scrape you off with a squeegee.
Novel and Obvious it is, and without utility,
but Michelle Lee (Patent Commissioner)
is the GOOGLE lawyer that GOOGLE depends on in its
threats to all industries.
novel and obvious, it is not ....
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