Ford made a truck for supermarkets, self-braking

26 April 2019

Ford offered a truck with protection from children's pranks

Many children often indulge in the fact that while Hiking with his parents on grocery shopping carts hitting each other or on shelves, and even on cars in Parking lots. It was to prevent these risks, Ford engineers have recently created a disposable, self-braking trolley for supermarkets.

Truck is equipped with sensors, similar to those used in the system of Ford Pre-Collision Assist, which uses the front camera and radar to scan the road in front of the car. If the driver fails to react to warnings of a possible collision with a pedestrian or other vehicles, the system automatically applies the brake engages.

In the case of a grocery truck brakes will be included if there is a danger that she might bump into such objects as shelves, stacks of items or unwary buyers. The system will also prevent collisions of trucks with vehicles in the Parking lots of supermarkets.
The Director of marketing communications, Ford of Europe Anthony Ireson says: "Technology Pre-Collision Assist can help our clients to avoid accidents or mitigate the consequences of a collision. We thought the demonstration of how a similar system can be applied to the shopping cart, will be a great way to promote how it can be really useful technology for drivers."

Cart-locking is a part of a series of concepts Ford Interventions, which focuses on "the application of automobile technology to address everyday household challenges that we all face". Other examples of such borrowings include, for example, the bed to automatically prevent slippage of the spouses sleeping with each other (respectively prevent snoring) and a kennel for the dogs with the noise reduction.

PS Useful to develop, which must first approve not even the owners of the supermarkets, and insurers, who will have to deal with far fewer complaints because of the "children's" scratch in the Parking lot. And injuries of children and others will be much less if the truck start to prevent any movement and collision.