Automakers like to patent weird gizmos on a regular basis only for the sake of defending outlandish concepts, however a latest Ford patent looks like a genuinely good accent. The Blue Oval thinks placing retractable rails into the truck’s mattress sides would make securing and loading cargo a lot simpler. 

The system works in a easy approach. Linear actuators able to lifting 1,320 kilos every can be mounted to heavy-duty rails, which sit in tracks on both facet of the mattress. With assist from a controller, they could possibly be lifted and raised at will. Stretch a web throughout the rails and decrease them over cumbersome cargo to safe it within the again. Ford takes it additional than that, although.