Turn in your man card....

RobMcBee

RobMcBee

Slow n easy when you're not gettin greasy....
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.... If you need trailer backup assistance. Another example of degentrification of modern men. Somethings you need to just take pride in being able to do...

 
I heard that on a commercial yesterday while watching football yesterday. I wasn't paying close attention, probably pissbreaking, but was like WTF did I just hear. I'm not the best trailer backer upper, and there's a good chance I'd be "that guy" at the boat ramp, but I'd rather do it with the steering wheel than with a limpwristed dashboard knob.
 
Seriously? People are becoming THAT f'n stupid and lazy???

If you're a man and feel the need to buy into this garbage, sorry, but....

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Perhaps I've been blessed to be a truck driver. I do own a boat, & of course a car trailer. At the Boat Ramp, I see Way too many guys that have No clue, how to back their trailer.
If Not for holding me up, I'd be laughing my ass off! They must have circle driveways, how else could they park the boat?
 
My dad had me backing trailers before I could even drive. People these days are so dependent
 
DEFINITELY man card failure. Backing up a trailer is easy. I was doing it at 16 yrs old and took to it like a duck to water.
 
Lol I'm fat n lazy, but I can still back a trailer. The shorter, the more fun! Hell I do a pretty damn good job at backing my log splitter! If you can't back a 20'+ boat trailer.....
 
To each his own I guess, not for me. However what seems concerning to me is having your eyes focused only on the rear view camera screen. I'd end up wrapping the front of the truck around something if my head was down and I wasn't using mirrors or paying attention to the front end.
 
How about if you can't back up a trailer...FUCKING LEARN HOW!

We are coming overly dependent. Like I said in a Facebook post about this........Judgement Day is inevitable. :lol:
 
I used to pull my first boat (17' Larson outboard) behind a 2.5 liter 1989 Dodge Daytona. It was definitely too much weight on the back of a front wheel drive vehicle, I never once spun a tire, even son some rather steep and wet boat ramps. I used to laugh because I would see guys in 3/4 ton 4WD pickups spin like crazy launching jet skis. Never understood that.

My wife would definitely need the Ford trailer backup assist. The few times I've let her back a vehicle with a trailer attached to it cost me a couple tail lights and some body work. One of the pre-requisites for purchasing her new van had to have a backup camera.
 
I'm not done ranting about this yet. The other issue I have with this is, say you buy this truck and use this feature, whether you haul a boat, heavy equipment, or whatever... If you can't back a trailer what dafuq makes you think you can operate what's on it??

Anyone who knows me can confirm that I load/unload a boat more times in a month than most do in a year. I'm good at it, but not the best. Motivation to get better. The lakes and rivers are already loaded with shitheads that have no business to be out there anyways. This bs will attract even more degenerates if all the outdoor reality TV horse rubbish doesn't do enough as it is. Just because you sit your ass in front of a TV and watch Dumbfuck Dynasty and Swamp p***ies and buy a truck that makes backing your boat in the water easier doesn't make you hardcore or even an outdoorsman, period. People suck. Stay your punk ass at the mall where you belong. Rant over.
 
I agree the trailer assist is retarded. But I want people to buy the hell out of the truck! I make the back glass in it and the f250. So I don't care why they buy, just as long as they do!
 
So when does it become a Federally mandated feature? Backup cameras took what, maybe 10 years?

On one hand, I'd like to deride all the people that will buy and use it and call them useless but if it truly helps get those idiots on and off the boat ramp faster, then so be it. I do contend with the video's claim that it will make experienced trailer drivers faster. Seriously? They think a widget can compete with an experienced human?
 
As I get older some things make me rant more. This isn't one of them.
To me it's no different than the automated parallel parking stuff. If someone wants to buy it I could care less. Maybe it'll keep them from banging into my car.
I wouldn't pay for it myself though i admit I could use more practice than the one or two times a year I pull my trailer.

Edit - and yes, it is fun watching people at the boat ramps.
 
The next video talks more about how the system actually works. I wonder how long it will take for lawsuits to start when people jack knife their short tongue trailers. Or the system doesn't pick up the "sticker" on the tongue and faults.
 
What about mymy 16'x 8' enclosed trailer? All your going to see in your little camera is diamond plate.
 
This is how I learned and it always works. when backing a trailer, put 1 hand on the bottom of the steering wheel. If you want the trailer to go left, make your hand go left. If you want the trailer to go right, make your hand go right.
 
GotWood said:
What about mymy 16'x 8' enclosed trailer? All your going to see in your little camera is diamond plate.
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cant speak for all of them, but my backup camera sees a wider path than my side mirrors. Parabolic fish eye lenses and such.

Back up cameras are nice, especially when backing a truck into a tight parking deck and making sure I dont ram the structure with the hitch. It literally allows you to get cm close. Plus back up cameras can save the life of children who run behind cars. I fully support those. *(BTW the greatest feature of a back up camera is the ability to 1 shot a trailer hook up every single time, solo)

This...meh. Falls into nice but why for me
 
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