Posted on 05/20/2016 3:17:34 AM PDT by SMGFan
Google has patented a glue-covered car hood that catches pedestrians hit by cars and holds them in place.
When a pedestrian is struck by a moving vehicle it isn’t just the impact that does harm.
Victims run the risk of getting bounced off of the hood and into other dangerous objects and perilous situations. As a means of preventing the latter scenario, Google has patented a glue-covered car hood that catches the unfortunate individual and holds them in place.
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What, is it some sort of selective adhesive that only sticks to pedestrians? Give it a week in the real world, and it’ll be completely covered with bugs, leaves and assorted debris.
And how do you get the bugs and bird poop off the glue?
Neighbors cat will need to be peeled off the hood now and then. or leave it.
They’re right. Go to youtube and search crash pedestrian. You will see a LOT of people get killed in spectacular ways. And it IS about what happens after the initial impact.
No more wishing people into the cornfield for YOU, little Anthony Fremont!
;^)
Sounds like a Cosmo Cramer idea. Call Jackie Chiles!
By the time the car actually hits a pedestrian, the glue covered hood will be totally ineffective due to it being completely covered in dead bugs.
Is that actually your Grandville? Not many of those left.
As a means of preventing the latter scenario, Google has patented a glue-covered car hood that catches the unfortunate individual and holds THEM in place.
If this reporter worked for me, he would be fired.
Nice Vega, too.
Two words: Love bugs.
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What happens in Texas’ heavily inhabited deer population area and you hit a deer? Wow.
I seem to remember a very old cartoon that used glue on rolling things as a trap. Tom & Jerry? So this idea is in the public domain and is thus unpatentable.
Pretty funny. But even if taken seriously, the glue would stick to the clothing, the concept of momentum would keep the body moving on.
The victim would then not only be hit by a car but stripped naked as well.
Can you say humiliation and road rash?
LOL, no...just a photo I found online. But, I’ve always wanted one of those big old tank-type convertibles just to cruise around in on nice days. Lack of money precluded that possibility.
Wouldn’t that make it a yallgo?
How does a mechanic or a DIY person check the oil or trans fluid or change the filters????
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