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this post was submitted on 05 May 2026
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Why did we skip past cool tech and go straight to idiocy.
Like if your car and trailer are connected physically and digitally that could be cool an enhance safety. A trailer that can respond and assist a hard brake? Cool. Wifi or digital connection goes down? Okay now it just works like a normal trailer.
But no that's too simple and it works
we already have that, and it's legally required for trailers above a specific weight in many places
but think about how much more money the manufacturers could make if it claimed to be AI powered
Trailer brakes have existed for a long time, and are common. They're often mandatory in some settings.
Even braking systems already exist, entirely in the realm of physics with no digital point of failure required
I presume the concept is "you have need to tow a 5,000 pound trailer and you just have your Toyota Corolla"
To provide effective towing, your vehicle has to be rugged, powerful, and weigh enough to not get yanked around by your load, meaning even when not towing it's a heavy vehicle. Instead this imagines a self-driving, passengerless truck that plays follow the leader and hopes it's close enough to towing to be allowed.
Of course, the problem as illustrated is that they show a tiny little thing towing a big payload. The physics just doesn't work (I suppose if the trailer is hollow aluminum and the tow is lead...)
If I had to guess. Its because "hitches are ugly."
Which incidentally is why we've had retractable hitches for a long time, fancier ones doing it with the push of a button
Really not sure what anyone was thinking when they came up with this one lol
Also, "my sports car is not made for tow capacity". I think that that would be the main selling point. Is you could blow a lot of money on this module with the torque and power to tow a trailer and you are free to drive a car that is not made for that.
We didn't skip past cool tech. We plucked a bunch of low hanging fruit. And now that fruit is gone. So we're getting weird with it to justify further consumer spending.