Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has successfully completed its ambitious eight-year-long connected and automated (CAV) ...

While Tesla and Waymo continue to dominate the robotaxi conversation, Lucid enters the fray with a $300 million joint venture with Uber and Nuro.

What Does the Parking Brake Do? The parking brake is designed to keep your car from rolling away when parked, and it also acts as an emergency braking system if the main hydraulic brake system fails.

The system uses a small electronic motor mated on the brake calipers. When the electronic parking brake is turned on, the motors lock each wheel individually.

Some heavy trucks are ditching traditional airbrake knobs for electronic switches. Learn how this enhances safety, simplifies systems, and changes the driver experience.

In this article, we will explore 10 common cars that still use mechanical parking brakes instead of electronic ones. We will look at the reasons behind this choice, the pros and cons of each system, ...

The hill-start assist system (HAS) ensures that the vehicle starting on the ramp will not roll backwards, which improves the convenience of the driving in the case of starting on the ramp and parking.

Forgetting to release the parking brake? This common mistake can warp your brake rotors—learn why and how to avoid costly damage.

While an electronic parking brake system still isn’t particularly complicated, it does allow for a few more features than a good old yank of a handbrake lever.

This paper addresses the modeling, controller design, and stability analysis of an electric parking brake system in which a screw–nut self-locking mechanism is used. The system is modeled as a ...

In this ancient system if you sprung a brake fluid leak all the fluid quickly depleted itself resulting in no brake action whatsoever. In this case a manual emergency brake was better than nothing.