More cars are switching from manual parking brakes using a pull-up lever to the electrical type requiring the touch of a button. The proof is in the latest edition of the CarGurus U.K. Manual ...

Older vehicles traditionally relied on handbrake as an emergency measure, but this feature has been replaced by an electronic ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has announced the recall of more than 870,700 Ford F-150 trucks because of an issue with the vehicle’s electric parking brakes. The number of ...

When the first parking brake was made, it was a safety device that was created to give vehicles an extra sense of security when parked. Parking brakes, also known as emergency brakes, are typically ...

Ford is recalling models of its top-selling vehicles, the F-150 pickup trucks, due to issues with the electric parking brakes. More than 870,000 vehicles from 2021 through 2023 are included in the ...

In the simplest terms, nearly every modern car on the planet uses disk brakes: a rotor attached to a hub with a caliper with brake pads fixed to the control arm at each wheel. The driver presses the ...