Ford has filed a patent for a new deployable step for rear bumper that will make accessing the bed of a pickup easier. Auto123 has more.
For some years now, truck manufacturers have been offering various types of systems make accessing the bed of a pickup easier. With trucks getting ever bigger, these systems are becoming ever more necessary.
Ford is working on a new system, according to a patent application filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office on May 21, and first submitted by Ford in 2021. The application concerns a deployable step for the rear bumper of a pickup truck that will make accessing the bed easier. In trucks equipped with air suspension, the step could also be connected to an on-board controller that would instruct the rear suspension to lower when the step is in use. The pickup would then lower, just as a city bus does to bring the first step closer to the ground.
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