Children's ride-on vehicle assemblies having trailing vehicle detection systems

A children's ride-on vehicle adapted to be a leading vehicle of a children's ride-on vehicle assembly having a leading vehicle and a trailing vehicle, the leading vehicle comprising:

• a leading vehicle body having at least one seat adapted to receive a child;
• a plurality of wheels rotatably coupled to the leading vehicle body and including at least one driven wheel and at least one steerable wheel;
• a steering assembly including a steering mechanism adapted to receive steering inputs from a child sifting on the at least one seat and to convey the steering inputs to the at least one steerable wheel;
• at least a portion of a connection apparatus adapted to selectively couple a trailing vehicle to the leading vehicle for relative movement with the leading vehicle, wherein the connection apparatus is in a coupled configuration when the trailing vehicle is coupled to the leading vehicle and in an uncoupled configuration when the trailing vehicle is not coupled to the leading vehicle;
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• a drive assembly selectively configured to rotationally drive the at least one driven wheel of the leading vehicle in a plurality of drive configurations, the drive assembly comprising:
• at least one user input device adapted to selectively actuate the drive assembly;
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• a sensor assembly adapted to detect when the connection apparatus is in the coupled configuration, wherein the drive assembly restricts driving of the at least one driven wheel to a subset of the plurality of drive configurations when the sensor assembly detects that the connection apparatus is in the coupled configuration, wherein the plurality of drive configurations includes at least one drive configuration that is not in the subset of the plurality of drive configurations, and further wherein the drive assembly restricts the plurality of drive configurations when the sensor assembly detects that the connection apparatus is in the coupled configuration regardless of user inputs selecting a drive configuration that is in the plurality of drive configurations but not in the subset of the plurality of drive configurations.