Breakfast Buzz: Do you think adhesive bumpers are a good idea?

When a pedestrian is hit by a car, often additional injuries come from bouncing off the hood and hitting the road. Well, Google has a solution to this: what if you were to ‘stick’ to the car?

Google has filed for a patent on adhesive bumpers for their self-driving cars. That way, if the car were to hit a pedestrian, they would “stick” to the hood of the car instead of bouncing back onto the road.

READ MORE: Google patents sticky glue to catch pedestrians hit by self-driving cars

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It’s described as a sort-of doubled-sided tape with an eggshell like coating to keep it clean, that would break and become sticky on impact.

A patent doesn’t mean Google will follow through with it, it’s just an idea at this time. Do you think its a good idea?

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With files from Nicole Bogart