The chevy Avalanche came out with 4 wheel steer a couple of years around 2000. most drivers have enough problems trying to drive a vehicle with only 2 wheels tht steer let alone drive one whit all 4 of them being able to steer just like back in the 60's Pontiac or Oldsmobile came out with a concept car with rear wheel steering like forklifts have. That would have really gone over well with the average driver at the wheel.
But what is really bad is the ARMY's Het's the Oshkosh M1070 coupled with the M1000 trailer has to be driven by civilian contractors to haul the M1 Abrams tanks because the Army can no longer properly train its own personnel to drive them The truck is nothing special just a big 8 wheel drive tractor with an automatic transmission but the trailer has a second coupler on the fifth wheel that causes the axles on it to steer. A real pain in the rear to us guys used to swinging wide to make turns you have to relearn your turning sequences when making a right hand turn you would hug the side then at the last moment swing the tractor out just enough for it to make the turn the trailer would track left then suddenly when you began turning rt it would track to the right following through the turn if you weren't careful instead of how a normal trailer would under track to the right and cut off the corner it would over cut and take out something on the left side. They werer a lot of fun backing as well, "NOT".

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