A deer leaps into the road. It freezes in your pickup truck's lights. The impulse is to slam on the brakes, but the heavy trailer you're towing could buckle and crash into the truck or flip them both. What do you do? GM is developing an advanced trailer braking system that will let pickup truck drivers react to such perilous situations the same...

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Since the technology must be equipped on the trailer, the question remains if GM will sell the technology to trailer manufacturers or begin manufacturing its own line of trailers. What is certain is that it will be more expensive than the basic trailers with drum brakes.  

The catch. Cool either way though and something that should happen.