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Parents of small children will doubtless be rushing to Kickstarter to help fund development of Ford's prototype Max Motor Dreams cot. Why would you want a baby's cot from a car company? Simple - as anyone knows, kids who are cranky about going to sleep can be easily lulled into a snooze by sticking them in the car and going for a drive. The Max Motor Dreams cot, controlled by a smartphone app, replicates the movements of a swaying car and so helps your small person nod off.
This is wonderful news to any new parent, a person who, according to Ford, is set to lose as many as 44-days' sleep in the first year of their child's life. Most of us can expect to only get five hours sleep a night when a new baby is in the house.
"After many years of talking to mums and dads, we know that parents of newborns are often desperate for just one good night's sleep. But while a quick drive in the family car can work wonders in getting baby off to sleep, the poor old parents still have to be awake and alert at the wheel," said Max Motor Dreams designer Alejandro López Bravo, of Spanish creative studio Espada y Santa Cruz, which produced the award-winning design. "The Max Motor Dreams could make the everyday lives of a lot of people a little bit better."
For the moment, Max Motor Dreams is still a one-off prototype, but thanks to what Ford is calling 'numerous inquiries' it just might be put into production.