Meet the genius crib that simulates a middle-of-the-night car ride

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When my oldest was a baby, we tried everything to get him to fall sleep at night. Rocking. Singing, Nursing. Burping. Bouncing. Music. More nursing. White Noise. Doing the Hokey Pokey. Nothing seemed to work — nothing except strapping him into his car seat and driving around until he finally drifted off.

What if I told you there’s new crib on the block that simulates the snooze-inducing atmosphere of driving around in a car? Meet Max Motor Dreams. It’s pretty much the closest thing there is to taking a midnight drive, but without ever having to leave the nursery.

The whole idea behind Ford’s Max Motor Dreams is to replicate the motions, sounds and lighting of riding in a car at night. First, parents use a phone app that records a nighttime drive. After everyone is at home, the experience of the drive is reproduced by syncing your app with the crib. A small speaker on the underside of the bassinet even plays a muffled engine sound. And the icing on the top? LED lights mimic the soft glow of streetlights in the night.

“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,” said Alejandro López Bravo, the crib’s designer. “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.”

Need to see it to believe it? Check out this genius crib in action, in the video below.

If you’re itching to get a hold of one of these cribs, there’s just one catch; they’re not actually for sale yet. Only one of them was built as part of a pilot program. However, high demand has led to Ford considering making production a reality. So there’s still hope for all of us exhausted mamas and daddies.

This clever cot sort of reminds me of the Snoo, another bassinet-type contraption that uses customized motion and sound to lull your little one to dreamland. Fellow BabyCenter blogger Becky Vieira weighed in on how the Max Motor Dreams seems to compare.

“As a Snoo user I see a big difference that addresses my biggest challenge,” she wrote in a message. “With Snoo, the baby’s swaddle sack had to be clipped to the bassinet to start movement. It was not simple and it would make my son scream each time. I couldn’t just place him down and turn it on, he had to be latched in. It would stretch the swaddle sack and just piss him off.”

Vieira also said she understands the Snoo’s clips are for safety, which brings me to my one concern about the Max Motor Dreams design: Is it safe for a baby not to be strapped/clipped inside a moving bassinet? I’m sure desperately tired parents would love to test out Ford’s clever (and probably very expensive) crib — just not at the risk of compromising safety for convenience.

Images via YouTube/Ford. Becky Vieira

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