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May 25, 2016

The Autonomous Report * Canada - A glue against pedestrian injury

* Ontario - Self-driving trucks, increased congestion and preventing pedestrian injury with glue

-- The hype around autonomous vehicles continues, with a number of stories hitting the streets in the last week. A new company is working on a self-driving transport truck, some transportation experts believe self-driving cars will actually increase traffic congestion and Google has filed a patent for an adhesive to help prevent pedestrian injuries. A study last year by the International Transport Forum seemed to indicate that total vehicle miles tranveled would increase anywhere from 30 to 90 percent after the introduction of AVs, assuming that half of travel is still carried out by conventional cars. 

 * Google has apparently filed a patent for an adhesive device to use on cars to “protect pedestrians from self-driving cars,” according to a report in the tech media this week. “In its patent, Google acknowledged that robot cars will hit pedestrians -- until the technology gets to the point that the vehicles can 'avoid all accidents'” ... 

 Google has come up with an adhesive that would be applied over cars that would keep humans hit by a braking car from bouncing off on to the pavement, which is when injuries often occur. According to the story an, “eggshell-like layer covering the adhesive would protect the sticky surface during everyday driving, but shatter in an accident to reveal the glue” ... The patent application also includes “an option to use a 'releasable adhesive' that would allow the person to be unstuck 'after a period of time'" ... 
 (Image: Part of Google's new patent for an adhesive that could be applied to the company's robot cars. The adhesive would be protected by a thin shell that would shatter on impact and allow the adhesive to hold the pedestrian in place to prevent further injury) -- Toronto, ONT, CAN - Collision Repair Mag, by Jeff Sanford - May 20, 2016

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