November 25th, 2009 at 11:46 am. VW and Mercedes with autoboxes already have this, and Toyota plans to implement this across the board for MY2011. I wouldn't be surprised if this becomes the next federally mandated safety feature. .... The problem was that he never set it hard enough to keep the truck from moving when the next guy got in and drove off without checking the e-brake. So after a short time we had a vehicle whose emergency brake didn't work at all. ...
