These Trucks Have Driver-Assist Features to Die For
Driving a truck can be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be. With these driver-assist and active safety features, anyone can feel confident behind the wheel.
Most drivers put a lot of thought into what they’re looking for before they test drive any trucks for sale. Factors often include things like power, capability, and ease of handling. These days, driver-assistance technology also tops most buyers’ lists of essential features.
Not all driver-assist systems are created equal. Some pickups come standard with a broader range of features, and each automaker has its own proprietary smart cruise control and active safety systems. Find out what you need to know about each before buying.
Toyota’s Safety Sense Suite in the Tundra
Toyota has always had a well-deserved reputation for manufacturing durable, reliable, and highly safe vehicles. In the modern era, that means more than just including airbags in all the right places.
Toyota has kept up with the changing times by developing Safety Sense, its proprietary suite of driver assistance features on the Tundra and many other models. The 2025 Toyota Tundra comes standard with Safety Sense 2.5.
Toyota Safety Sense includes all the basics, such as a pre-collision system, dynamic radar cruise control, automatic high beams, lane tracing, steering, and road sign assist. Additional features include parking assist, an available panoramic view monitor, the Star Safety System, and Safety Connect.
Ford’s Co-Pilot360 in the F-150
Ford’s Co-Pilot360 suite of driver-assistance features is optional on the F-150, not standard. For those who opt to include this feature when they purchase new Ford trucks, Co-Pilot360 helps to improve the driving experience in ways similar to Toyota’s Safety Sense.
One of the best-known features of the Co-Pilot360 system is Ford BlueCruise. BlueCruise allows drivers to enable hands-free driving on some divided highways. Other driver-assist features like lane departure alerts, blind spot monitoring, and collision alerts accompany this system.
Compared to Safety Sense, the primary differences are that Co-Pilot360 offers a hands-free driving mode and that it’s an available feature on the Ford F-150 instead of coming standard, as Safety Sense does on the Toyota Tundra.
Honda Sensing in the Ridgeline
Honda Sensing is the Japanese automaker’s equivalent to Ford’s Co-Pilot360 and Toyota’s Safety Sense. Like these systems, Honda Sensing is an intelligent suite of driver-assistance and active safety technology designed to keep drivers safe and alert them to hazards.
Honda Sensing also comes with all the normal driver-assist features, including collision mitigation braking, road departure mitigation, lane-keep assist, traffic sign recognition, and adaptive cruise control. The suite of features comes standard on the Ridgeline.
Additional elements of Honda Sensing include cross-traffic monitoring, a blind-spot information system, and auto high-beam headlights, all of which are available features on select models. Honda does not have a hands-free driving mode.
Ram’s Advanced Driver-Assistance Tech
The Ram 1500 also has a wealth of available advanced driver-assistance technologies, although there’s no catchy name to go with them. Like Ford, Ram offers a hands-free driving mode that utilizes sensors, cameras, and radar to function on approved roadways.
Ram also has many standard and available safety features, including some that are designed specifically for trucks and towing. They include the usual features such as collision assistance, traffic sign recognition, and drowsy driver detection.
Drivers can also get features like trailer auto hitch assist, reverse guidance with dynamic gridlines, a digital rearview mirror with tow mode, and an integrated trailer health monitor.
