In order to limit injuries to pedestrians in a collision with a car, they should immediately be ‘glued’ to the bonnet. In a collision would therefore very sticky coating must appear on the car, Google wrote in a patent application.
can be prevented with the adhesive that a pedestrian is thrown back from the bonnet as the driver (or self-propelled car) then step on the brake, so the idea. Under normal circumstances, the coating remains hidden under a sort of eggshell-like material. This material breaks only when there is a collision, then the sticky layer – “think-sided duct tape,” says Google – emerges, writes The Mercury News
Pedestrian Airbag
<. p> Although Google has applied for the patent with its self-driving cars in mind, this solution can of course also be used for “normal” cars. That would not be a luxury, because while cars in recent decades have become much safer for the people that are in it, get other traffic participants in the designs often off badly.
For some years there several cars on the market that feature a bonnet that pops up slightly in an accident: it must ensure that the impact of all hard parts of the car on the pedestrian appears limited. And Volvo V40 are carried out with a pedestrian airbag ‘
Source:. Bright.nl. Every Monday at 21:30 Bright TV on RTL Z.
Bright / Maarten Reijnders
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