Nice safety feature from the new Ford tailgates

Golden_HVAC wrote:
An unfair Dodge test probably set up by someone sore about this Ford test of a trailer going down a hill..

Clicky It is a commercial produced by Ford back in 2012, with a GM and Dodge truck towing a trailer down a hill, with -400 pounds hitch weight, something disastrous is about to happen, but the Ford's new factory installed trailer braking system will prevent sway, while the Dodge and GM back in 2012 did not. Current Federal regulations might have required Dodge and GM to put this sort of braking controls on their 2014 and later model year trucks, but Ford had it first.

Fred.

Sorry Fred but both Ram and Ford came out with it in 2009

Form PUT.COM"In 2009, Dodge and Ford introduced trailer sway control on their new light-duty pickups. In the Dodge Ram 1500, its stability control system was enhanced to automatically counteract unintended trailer motion by using the truck’s antilock braking and traction control systems to apply individual wheel brakes and/or reduce engine power. It works by asymmetrically applying brake pressure on the tow vehicle’s opposite side to counteract sway.

The Ford F-150 uses a more sophisticated trailer sway control system. By taking advantage of its integrated trailer-brake controller and roll stability control, the F-150 can apply both its own brakes and a trailer’s electric brakes without the driver's intervention to stop sway when the vehicle senses excessive rear yaw input from the trailer."

Albeit Ford's system was better at the time, score one for Ford. Damn that hurt. :W

Don