Maybe he'll take some of the opinions mentioned here and change his mind about his options. Maybe he never thought about the fact that it's manual, and you have remember to latch it so when you forget to latch the hitch it'll be there. 
Sometimes a person is just not aware of what questions to ask, or even that there are questions to be asked. It's not like we're wasting necessary electrons after all.
If people only answered the immediate question, and refrained from adding opinions, this forum, and many others would have gone away by now.