It would alleviate the need to precisely back your hitch under the trailer's tongue. And it will kill 900 people in its first year on sale when driven through places of high 2.4GHz congestion. Like school zones and neighborhoods.

Cathode Ray Dude goes on this rant about PCs and to an extent all technology. He says that tech as a phenomenon is largely a 20th century phenomenon and is generally over now, that the things that can be invented have been invented, that we'll never see another Walkman, a device that changes what is possible so radically that stores can't keep them on the shelves.

We perfected the form factor of the automobile in the 1950's, and since then everything has been updates to styling, infotainment, powerplant efficiency and reliability, performance and safety. A 1950 Chevy Impala did everything anyone needed a car to do, we've since added seat belts, CD players and antilock brakes.

There's nothing for Toyota to do. They make legendarily reliable cars; the reason you buy a new Toyota is because a drunk driver totaled your old one. Basically every luxury feature comes as standard on all models now. What's the point of a Mercedes S class when you could have a Toyota Camry for a third the price that will ever work again if you miss an oil change by 3,000 miles or so?

There is no point to executives. Executives serve no function now that every product decision has been made. For the last 15 years, the only decisions executives have been making is how to make the product more profitable for the shareholders. The customer does not matter at all, because the customer can be forced to buy the product no matter what. All car manufacturers are making headlights a subscription service, the only cars that don't have that are used, they're aging and depleting. So we have arrived into a future where we don't say "I wish my car had this futuristic feature" or "I wish my car had the feature that's on this luxury model" or "check out the new feature on my car," we're now saying "I wish my new car had the features my old one had."

But executives need their bonuses. They need to go to trade shows with features they oversaw the development of, so that they can impress older executives into giving them louder titles and bigger offices. So we get shit like this. Towing a trailer is a completely solved problem, we have robust industries dedicated to hitches, brake controllers, lights, security etc. Masterlock even makes lock-shaped objects specifically for looking like you've secured the tongue to the ball. But for reasons that are beyond my understanding we haven't beaten the entire executive class to death with hammers yet, so these problems continue to be re-invented to be partially solved anew, hence: the wireless trailer hitch.

It requires two engines, a huge boon for car companies, and any companies that are in the supply or service chains for engines. As such I expect to see it on all model year 2028s. In 2036, they'll decide they "made a mistake" and some companies will stop doing it. They'll be hailed as revolutionaries for listening to customer demand.

Didn't you read? You can do wifi towing.

I think this was only created because someone wanted to use this dumb phrase for some reason

You could tow anything with an economy car instead of a large truck.

You could probably hack it to tow your yacht with your bicycle

The benefit is people not buying and daily-driving $85,000 F-350s so they can tow a camper 4 weekends a year.

Which is why I would rather have a machine-learning computer that is capable of measurements that a typical morbidly obese American is incapable of doing while they all simultaneously drive and use their phones.

If you've never towed a trailer, which sounds like you are ignorant and actually havent left your desk in your entire life, it's more than just connecting two fucking things and simply driving straight: the weight of your entire payload must sit at the pintle/mount otherwise you will get death wobble, the speed of your vehicle must not overcome the drag of your trailer or you'll fuck up the mounts, etc etc.

You want Bubba controlling several tons of shit traveling at 70 miles per hour, or a computer?

From the horse's mouth

https://pressroom.toyota.com/free-and-untethered-toyota-is-bringing-hitchless-towing-to-life/

https://pressroom.toyota.com/free-and-untethered-toyota-is-bringing-hitchless-towing-to-life/

Australians kinda did that already with road trains