• Mar 18, 2016
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Google’s self-driven cars is a big deal and company is keen on working on several features that can result in mitigating the problems that come with driverless cars. The biggest concerning issue is pedestrians and their safety. The inventors Alex Khaykin and Daniel Lynn Larner have come up with a solution to avoid multiple impacts after a collision with a vehicle. The U.S. Patent No. 9,340,178 titled ‘Adhesive vehicle front end for mitigation of secondary pedestrian impact’, describes how pedestrians will simply stick to the car "in the event of a collision." Interestingly, the idea is not about avoiding a collision with the pedestrian, rather it aims to keep the victim from sustaining potentially worse, or fatal injuries. This ingenious idea simply works to stick the pedestrian onto the car to avoid further injuries. The patent also states that the adhesive can potentially be used on other kinds of cars. It remains unclear that whether Google will go ahead and implement this in their cars for sure but it is worth mentioning that they are actually working towards the safety of the people and trying to curb road fatalities.   This article is a part of our series of web articles - Latest from the Greatest. Innovation drives competitiveness! That is the beauty of innovation which fuels every great company to constantly innovate and come up with great ideas, great prototypes and finally great products. Having a patent is absolutely critical and act as a core ingredient to achieve such greatness. Leading companies compete on the impact of their innovations in the marketplace. At Citius Minds, we constantly mine patents to read into the insights into what the future holds. Through these series of web articles, we will be covering latest patents that the leading companies have filed and try to read into how their research is panning out and what great products are lined up for us to grab our hands on.