Battle of the heavy weights

4x4ord wrote:

NC Hauler wrote:
What if I take a corner too fast and hit a tree??

If you go around a corner too fast the blasted computer takes over and applies braking to individual wheels to keep the truck from drifting ... it can be annoying. Putting your foot to the floor pulling a trailer up a hill is not going to cause your truck to self destruct. Maybe if you really wanted to wreck it you might be able to drain the oil out and try driving it up the hill. My guess is that without oil pressure it would shut down before doing any damage though. My point really is that these trucks are built to work and they don't need to be babied.

I helped design, test and manufacture ABS/ESC systems, it's what my company does, along with calipers and other automotive/truck systems...just because it's activated, doesn't mean it'll keep you "in the road" and be able to completely compensate for one speeding, especially with 20,000# behind them, and 40' ft of 5er...(even with brakes on the trailer).

Never said anything about babying them...I talked about "going out of one's way to ABUSE them"...HUGE difference...I use a truck to do what it's 'recommended to do", right, wrong or indifferent.....I don't overload them, I don't speed with them when towing, I'm not in a race to get anywhere, empty or towing and I try to practice safety when on the road...now a day's, "defensive driving really is just that....watching out for the other guy"...

again, HUGE difference between abuse, overloading, speeding and just the opposite. Me, I'm in the middle...I try to make my truck last as long as possible and run it empty or towing using common sense and safety in mind as well as staying within guide lines of recommended use of my vehicle...Safety features? Yeah they work, gages, computers, yeah they work, but they can only do so much to compensate for human error

if they were all as good as you seem to think they are, I don't think we'd ever see a wreck on the highway's....all the safety features built into the vehicles wouldn't allow it...and we know better than that.......