Sway caused accident on I-75

nolra wrote:
I wish someone would come up with a steering wheel mounted "panic" button that would apply the trailer brakes. When the trailer is trying to rip the steering wheel out of my hand, the last thing my brain is going to do is let loose with one hand so I can fumble around under the dash for a trailer brake controller lever.. Start to finish I doubt this accident took more than 5 seconds. There isn't a lot of time to react even if you can get your hand on a controller. I don't think this kind of accident starts with a little gentle sway where you can yawn, scratch your knee and then apply a little trailer brake. Of course we're assuming the brakes are working properly..

Too many unknowns to place any blame here. Hope they found the dog.

The new 2013 Dodge trucks do just that. They have a trailer sway control built in the ESC control. If a sway event is detected it will reduce speed and brake isometricaly until the sway event is reduced, Yaw rate is canceled.
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