Google Patents 'Flypaper' to Snare Pedestrians Hit by Cars

Google's self-driving vehicles could one day be fitted with a form of adhesive coating on their bonnets to reduce injuries in collisions with pedestrians.

The tech giant received a patent Tuesday for a kind of human flypaper that would sit beneath an eggshell-like protective layer on the car's front, the Mercury News reports. On impact, the sticky coating would glue the victim to the car so they didn't fall under the wheels or into the roadway.