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Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through Truck Trend Network's website.
General Motors' eBoost Trailer Brake Concept is an upgraded braking system integrated into travel trailers, kept in close communication with the truck's stoppers in order to keep towing more stable. It equates to a 20-percent improvement in stopping distances from 60 mph, or 40 feet or so of distance. According to GM, this stat is close to what a truck not towing a trailer would achieve.Truck Trend Network writer, Brett T Evans, relays in his article, "The centerpiece of the kit is a trailer-ized version of GM's eBoost brakes, currently found on the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra (as well as the Corvette). If the trailer system works like it does in the trucks and the 'Vette, it incorporates a master cylinder, vacuum booster and pump, and electronic brake control module into a single unit. When the system receives a signal from the seven-pin trailer connector, it apportions braking pressure to the trailer's likewise-upgraded brake rotors, brake calipers, and tires." The eBoost Trailer Brake system is a concept only at the moment.
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