Smart electronics on Ford Super Duty pickups include safety tips from ‘driving coach’

Ford’s new 2023 Super Duty pickups and chassis cab trucks go long on technology to be safer and easier to use.

The Super Duty pickups are used for everything from personal transportation to utility company bucket trucks and ambulances.

Incredibly capable, I used Super Duties to tow 30,000- and 40,000-pound trailers up and down steep hills and around curving hillside rounds at Ford’s heavily wooded Romeo Proving Ground northeast of Detroit, but the real revelations were new safety and connectivity features that will change life for drivers, and even more so for the companies that use hundreds of thousands of Super Duties every day. Updates to the rear frame and hitch improved towing performance and stability. The Super Duty’s towing ratings are not subject to the Society of Automotive Engineers' requirements known as SAE 2807.