While Google’s self-driving cars bear an excellent safety record,that record isn’t quite perfect, and the company wants to do all it can to protect pedestrians should one be hit by a car.
A preceding Google patent described a combination of foam bumpers and external airbags to minimize injuries to pedestrians in the event of a collision, or but a original patent spotted by Mercury News swaps out the airbags for an adhesive coating intended to act as human flypaper … more
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Source: 9to5google.com