Ford's flying battery drones could jump start your dead car

The 2023 Ford F-150 Raptor R is the most powerful and most expensive pickup truck the automaker has ever sold. Ford is thinking about building an air force. The automaker has received a patent for an innovative technology that could make your AAA card obsolete. It describes a way to use a swarm of quadricopter drones to jump start a gasoline-powered car's dead battery without having to send a service truck. The patent depicts a "plurality of drones" equipped with batteries and robotic arms working in concert to connect to the battery.