I was thinking about the cargo net. My SW told me to go to the second hand store where she trades in a lot of clothes the grand kids out grow. Sure enough they had just what I needed for $15 and turns out she had a $19 credit. The space between the 2 slides when they are retracted is 42.5" and the other gate I bought had a max distance of 42" so it did not work but the one from the second hand store is about 48" max and each of the the ends are adjustable which works great because it has about 1/4" of variance in the two opposing slides. I will take some pictures of it installed of course I won't know how good this works until we go somewhere and try it.