DEARBORN, Michigan (AP) — Police could soon be getting some extra backup -- from their cars.
Ford Motor Co. has a new surveillance system for police cars that automatically sounds a chime, locks the doors and puts up the windows if it detects someone approaching the car from behind. The system — which Ford is patenting — is the first of its kind.
"It's like insurance. You hope you never need it. But if you do, it gives the officer a few extra seconds of warning," says Marc Ellison, vice president of operations at Auburn, Calif.-based InterMotive, which helped Ford develop it.
A lack of warning for an officer parked in a patrol car is a potentially deadly problem.
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