New Ford Pickup weighs payload and tongue weight

Sounds good to me. Considering the fact that trucks have pretty much doubled in price over the last 10 years, and passenger cars have had an average increase of only 25-30% over the same time period, I fully expect a LOT of new technology and features on the new trucks. Naturally, the high demand for unnecessarily large trucks is pushing the prices sky-high, but buyers need to expect a good bit of new technology and product content in return.

“A lot like the battery icon at the top of your phone, the taillights tell you how loaded the bed of the truck is by how many lights in the inner orange portion are lit. The more you carry, the more lights come on and the top portion will flash if the scale detects an overload.”

Why not the actual weight with lights? Unless the system is guessing/estimating. My iPhone and iPad have both..icon and SOC percent.

valhalla360 wrote:

- I do expect this will be logged in the trucks computer, so if there is warranty work, they can document, you were overloading the truck.

Yep! I expect that this will be an interesting part of this to see unfold. Ford will deny a lot of warranty work based on computer records of overloaded trucks.

Actually a good idea in general:
- Sounds like they aren't providing actual weights but just 4 lights (kind of like the black tank sensors we all know and love). So if you are trying to dial in the last 50lb of payload, it's not going to be very useful.
- I do expect this will be logged in the trucks computer, so if there is warranty work, they can document, you were overloading the truck.
- But regardless, this will eliminate (or at least make clear to the owner) when trucks are being grossly overloaded.
- It does bring up a question of if you add after market suspension upgrades (like airbags), does that mess up the system?

Pretty neat idea. Depending on how it works. If it is actually a digital scale that you can push a button and set to zero every now and then, zero being stock truck from factory, that could work. If it is a sliding resistor based on suspension travel, as the suspension wears out you will already be carrying a load before you put anything in the bed. But then again that could be a good thing matching the load to the weaker suspension.