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 ...

The manual parking brake is going the way of hand-cranked windows, ashtrays, and using a key to start a car—replaced by a small switch you can activate with just the tip of your finger. But is an ...

The parking brake has not changed much since cars were invented one hundred years ago. Until now. Slowly but surely the cable-operated mechanical handbrake is being eased out by electronic versions ...