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Waymo fleshes out self-driving car tech with hardware that goes soft at first sign of trouble • The Register

"A portion of the surface may be corrugated.”That's not the only safety patent granted to the self-driving startup."

'Waymo has been granted a patent to deck out its self-driving cars in a material that becomes less rigid when its sensors detect a high chance of collision. '

'Although these machines might not suffer from the dangers of fatigue or road rage, they still aren’t completely safe. '

'Accordingly, it is desirable to design a vehicle that can reduce the force of impact experienced during a collision,” according to the patent filing. '

'The idea is that sensors detecting an imminent crash with an object in the vehicle’s surroundings will kickstart a mechanism that decreases the rigidity of the vehicle. '

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