Call it as you may wish, but the electric hand brake or the electronic parking brake is an innovation that helped manufacturers save space inside the cabin and allowed designers to further enhance the ...

My friend Kiko has a problem. He has an addiction to bike polo. He also choses to ride a freewheel bike, which means that with a mallet in his hand he only has one brake. Luckily, Kiko is also a ...

Older vehicles traditionally relied on handbrake as an emergency measure, but this feature has been replaced by an electronic ...

The parking brake (or hand brake) holds one or more brakes continuously in the applied position. The parking brake employs the regular drum brakes on the rear wheel. Instead of hydraulic pressure, ...

Hello Paul, my Toyota Vanguard’s hand brake light keeps flashing off and on. What could be the cause? Angella Hello Angella, the flashing hand brake light could be one of two problems; a fault with ...

There are two main types of parking brakes available in cars today. Which one you have will change what happens if you leave ...

The crash of a runaway train in Quebec is calling attention to the crucial role of hand brakes in keeping tank cars out of harm's way. The estimated number of hand brakes that must be applied on rail ...

Let's face it: Some designs just weren't good, regardless of how many different ways Ford passed them along to us 40 years ago. Flaws such as leaking cowl vents, flimsy door and window mechanisms, ...

While commuter bicycles can generally get by with a rear-wheel-only coaster brake, mountain and cyclocross bikes require both front and rear brakes - along with the hand levers used to activate them.