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[Richard230]

Google has you covered if you are a pedestrian.  On the front page of my newspaper this morning is an article about a new Google patent application. It is designed to save pedestrians when one of their self-driving cars hits one of those soft two-leg mobile devices that gets in its way. It is something like fly paper that will cover the hood of the car.  When the robot hits a pedestrian, he falls backward and sticks to the hood of the car, thereby preventing the poor sap from being tossed on to the pavement.  (Then the robot car can drive him to the hospital, with a stop at his attorney's office along the way, and he will never need the services of an ambulance.) Sounds like a very efficient idea to me.  I am sure that it will be well received by all government regulators. 

The article was written by Ethan Baron of the Bay Area News Group.

[corentinoger]

I could see an application when the neighbours kids play soccer too close from parked car : they'll never get their ball back!