If you can't paralell park or back up a trailer....

Drove a friend's Ford in some nasty snow last winter when the front grab a snow rut and pulled it to the ditch.. so I counter steered and mashed the gas to correct it. TC cut all the power and kept sucking me in. I kept it out but what a damn joke. TC's more likely to wreck me than save me!

 

I believe 2016 F150's have back up assist. pretty cool

 

Well done. Those things had the turning radius of a small battleship.

 

Agreed. I always thought it might just be a silly gimmick, but after having it in the Bacon I love it. I have to look in the mirror anyway and those 3 yellow lights give me an additional peace of mind. There has been more than one occasion when somebody actually was in a my blind spot and I couldn't see them, but those lights were lit up.

The only thing I wish I could change is the distance. It waits until they are too far back before the lights go off. It tried to keep me from pissing people off.

 

I'll take Manayunk for $1000, Alex.

 

Anywhere south of Market. If the streets are actually wide enough for parking AND driving!

 

I can handle the parallel park but that trailer assist is bad ass. It would have made my life much easier backing the boat in yesterday at 5:00 am in th efog and even more useful trying to back the trailer down the ramp later in the day with my brothers F-250... Basically once you can see the trailer, you have over-corrected... I am buying him a backup camera and auxiliary backup lights before our next adventure.

 

I took my car to get it washed and an interior detail Saturday morning. After I drove it through the auto wash I pull into the bay where the employees finish the drying and interior cleaning. When I pulled up the kid asks me to move the car to the next stall because he doesn't know how to drive stick. No biggie. When they finish with the car I watch as the kid goes from employee to employee asking if anyone knows how to drive stick, he finally found one on attempt number 3. I chuckled.

 

Or Kensington.

 

Happens to me too. I can park my full size truck just about anywhere, but I have trouble keeping my little work car in between the lines on a regular parking lot spot.

 

Can't you see the trailer in the side mirrors?

 

In my Mazda6 I can turn off the blind spot monitoring. I can also set different levels of intensity. The auto wiper option can be disabled as well. Same with auto lights. I have my wipers and lights set to manual but the blind spot monitor is always on.

 

You should have made it a true daily double I will have to look up the street name, but she lived about 2 blocks up the hill from the main street.

 

pfft, I felt it from here!

 

its actually very convenient to never have to turn on a wiper or adjust the speed when its just a drizzle, you still have daytime running lights with auto headlights

its not a matter of forgetting, its a matter of never having to adjust them or turn them on and off, probably one of the best things in a car anymore

 

The trailer is too narrow. Once you see it it is pretty far offline. I will likely add some flags to it before using my brothers truck again. I have no issues backing it with my 2wd F-150.

 

I'm thinking it should be called "Rookie trailer control", not Pro.....

 

Call it the Ford trailer Vaginator I don't care, I like it.

 

And I thought ABS was the work of the devil!

 

On the blind spot warning - is there any luck type of alarm if the warning is turned on but is not functioning correctly?