High-tech shopping carts for the homeless

CTV News featured high-tech shopping carts designed by engineering students at UBC’s Okanagan campus.

The students based the design on a shopping cart frame and relied on input from the RCMP, a community church, the City of Kelowna and members of the homeless community.

The shopping carts are equipped with lights, locks, GPS and a battery charger and are scheduled to be released in 2017.