Google patents safety system that glues pedestrians to cars

The patent application seems dubious.

Under WIPO guidelines "the invention must be disclosed in an application in a manner sufficiently clear and complete to enable it to be replicated by a person with an ordinary level of skill in the relevant technical field."

The European Patent Office has a similar rule requiring that it can be "reproducible without undue burden".

USPTO says that "the specification must be in clear, full, concise, and exact terms to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which the invention pertains to make and use the same."

But as the article says, Google don't actually know what to make the adhesive out of. The patent defines the properties it must have, but presumably no such adhesive exists or they'd know what to make it out of. So, the patent application seems invalid to me.

The article also says "of course like many patents, the technology might never materialize," which is entirely at odds with the purpose of patents. One shouldn't, per the rules, be able to get a patent until the technology has materialized.

Vehicular assault coupled with false imprisonment.

Obviously macabre but probably would save lives. People are injured and killed by deer and other animals coming in through the windshield and subsequently kicking wildly in a panic. Humans are gravely injured by secondary impacts. If this system reduces those occurrences, it will save lives.

I can't help imagining someone getting glued to the car and being paraded all around the city :-(

Deer strikes are going to be ugly.

If you can patent that, then I've got the solution to rubber necking. Who wants to invest? ~;)

Car has an accident and catches fire - what happens to the pedestrian glued to the bonnet then?