New Ford Pickup weighs payload and tongue weight
Pick up weighs payload/tongue weight
Forum Discussion
Great, another useless costly “feature” that will not only make people dumber, but provide fodder for years to come from the rvnet weight police.
Where it really matters with commercial hauling and legal axle loads, it’s a welcome addition.
For the weekend warrior who is too ignorant or careless to know how much his trailer weighs, it’s a nanny. At least it will be paired with a 360 deg invisible trailer camera, active lane keeping, adaptive cruise, hill start assist, collision avoidance and pro trailer backup. Because pretty soon no ones going to know how to drive without just running stuff over because the “car” didn’t tell them it was there!
Just like all the other ****.
Makes you a worse driver. Now that we have 2 vehicles with blind spot monitoring, guess what, I’m subconsciously becoming reliant on it and find myself starting to change lanes in the vehicles that don’t have it, without a good blind spot check.
Backup cams. Pretty handy, but another crutch. Been in the habit now of finishing my backup to the shop with the camera because I can see how close the trailer hitch is to the door. Put a 26’ extension ladder into my garage door that was in the back of the pickup, that I would have seen in the rear view mirror, but out of habit I used the camera.
These crutches are turning me into a dumbass as well apparently!
Where it really matters with commercial hauling and legal axle loads, it’s a welcome addition.
For the weekend warrior who is too ignorant or careless to know how much his trailer weighs, it’s a nanny. At least it will be paired with a 360 deg invisible trailer camera, active lane keeping, adaptive cruise, hill start assist, collision avoidance and pro trailer backup. Because pretty soon no ones going to know how to drive without just running stuff over because the “car” didn’t tell them it was there!
Just like all the other ****.
Makes you a worse driver. Now that we have 2 vehicles with blind spot monitoring, guess what, I’m subconsciously becoming reliant on it and find myself starting to change lanes in the vehicles that don’t have it, without a good blind spot check.
Backup cams. Pretty handy, but another crutch. Been in the habit now of finishing my backup to the shop with the camera because I can see how close the trailer hitch is to the door. Put a 26’ extension ladder into my garage door that was in the back of the pickup, that I would have seen in the rear view mirror, but out of habit I used the camera.
These crutches are turning me into a dumbass as well apparently!
