Ford’s self-braking shopping cart will stop your little ones ramming strangers’ shins
David Brown now brings us this weeks quirky motoring story
Ford has announced that it can adapt its motoring technology from the highway to the supermarket.
The company has developed a shopping cart with automatic emergency braking.
In cars the Pre-Collison Assist technology uses a camera and radar to detect vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists on the road, automatically applying the brakes if the driver does not respond to warnings.
The shopping trolley uses a sensor to scan ahead for people and objects, automatically applying the brakes when a potential collision is detected.
No more trolley hits to the shins. Perhaps we could also get blinkers or blind spot detection for safer aisle lane changing.