[granite]

[BenLurkin]

No way.

[clearcarbon]

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[Celerity]

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 ?

[Talisker]

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!

[bluejean]

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.

[Jack Hammer]

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.

[Impala64ssa]

The most hairbrained scheme I’ve heard of since the time Elliot Spitzer, when he was NY AG proposed serial nos. on bullets.

[r_barton]

Google has really been using that flypaper to collect money. ;-)

[kaehurowing]

At the end of the day, they scrape you off with a squeegee.

[Rastus]

Rate suckers?

[Diogenesis]

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.

[floozy22]

"Smith added that despite these concerns, Google should still be praised for thinking of the safety of individuals other than drivers and passengers. "The idea that cars should be safe for people other than the ones in them is the next generation of automotive safety," he said. "I applaud anybody for thinking, as they should, about people outside of the vehicle.""

Translate: "It's a lousy, unsafe, highly impractical idea, but Google is JUST WONDERFUL for thinking of it."