I guess I'm a little skeptical of the practicality of a "collision detection" system for lift trucks. Lift trucks must drive directly towards an obstacle (their load) every time they pick up the load. They also drive directly towards racking , stacked loads, or trailer walls to place loads and drive extremely close to racking, other lift trucks, and other obstacles as part of their normal operations. I'm struggling to accept that you can develop a system that can tell the difference between the objects the lift truck operator is intending to approach and those he is not. My guess is you may try to take speed into account, but there is a significant amount of lift truck damage and injury caused by very slow moving lift trucks. Then there is the whole "direction of travel" thing. Lift trucks travel forward, backward, and sort of sideways (with tight turn radius) and operators have collisions in all directions of travel.

I've seen the futuristic demos of collision detection systems for automobiles driving on the highway, but I question how they would perform in city driving. And, lift truck operations take city driving to a whole new level. In past decades we've seen impact detectors sell like hotcakes, but in my experience the majority of these devices are very quickly deactivated or had their sensitivity tuned to a level such that they don't detect anything anymore because in many lift truck environments they just don't perform as well in the real world as they do in the brochure. I suspect a lift truck collision system will likely just be a much more expensive piece of technology that sounds good, but can't perform effectively due to the nature of the environment.

I appreciate that there are businesses such as yours working on safety technology such as this, but I guess I need a lot of convincing on this one.