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Originally Posted by freebeard
slowmover -- There's something I've been wondering...
Suppose the trailer had a retractable skid at the rear, and some feedback loop that fed off the difference between the angle of the front wheels and the angle of the tongue at the hitch. Wouldn't judiciously applied drag cause the trailer to fall in line behind the hitch?
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Manually slam the trailer brake control and nail the throttle. Since the first days of trailer brakes.
There have been some other electro-mechanical devices tried over the years, but Americans and the DOT has little interest. In Europe there are a few electronic devices now in place to correct sway (but the geometry of how they do the lash up is different, and predicated on some different assumptions about towing).
Sway is a subject rather past a bit of tail wagging. All trailers do it, it is only how much. A fair sized grey area, overall.
Titanium sounds fun, but wouldn't magnesium be MORE fun?
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