Ford Lane-Keeping Bed

2019: Solution prototype

On February 13, 2019 the Ford company provided a prototype of the bed controlling personal space (Ford Lane-Keeping Bed).

As noted in Ford, according to researches, every fourth person consisting in the relations better sleeps alone. And, according to National medical authorities of Great Britain (NHS), the "saved-up" sleep debt increases risk of injuries and accidents of the house, at work and on the road. Recently it became popular to sleep separately, and already there was even a tendency to so-called "travel on different beds". But what to do if this idea not to liking?

In Ford claim that it is possible to solve this problem using development of the company — the bed controlling personal space. The company used automobile technologies that even the most inveterate "the bed aggressor" remained during the night only "on the band".

The system of deduction in a band (Lane-Keeping Aid), available for February, 2019 on the majority of the Ford models, traces a marking of lanes ahead and monitors that drivers were strictly in the middle of the band, adjusting the direction using steering. The technology supplements other systems using the data obtained from the camera which help drivers to avoid accidental departure out of limits of the band, noted in Ford.

These technologies inspired the company on creation of the so-called "the centering bed" which determines by pressure sensors that the person interferes on others half of a bed, and softly returns it into place using the built-in transfer belt.

"When people sleep together, each of them has less place, than at the small child in a single bed. When the person sleeps, he is most vulnerable: our organism is arranged in such a way that we wake up when something or someone unexpectedly concerns us. If other person appears on your party of a bed, this protection gear will join, you will wake up and can back fall asleep not at once. At the same time the second person often continues to sleep peacefully. What leads sometimes to destruction of the relations". Neil Stanley, independent dream specialist and author of the book How to Sleep Well

According to information for February, 2019, such bed is only the prototype executed within the Interventions project of Ford company. The essence of the project is that experience of use of automobile technologies is used for problem solving which the person faces every day (and in this case — every night).