Older vehicles traditionally relied on handbrake as an emergency measure, but this feature has been replaced by an electronic parking brake in newer rides. Why?

While the parking brake is often associated with steep hills, the truth is that you should be using it daily on flat surfaces too. Doing so can take pressure off the transmission and other drive ...

Manual gear sticks and chunky automatic gear selectors aren’t the only controls to have been replaced in a lot of modern cars by tiny switches – the humble handbrake made that transition quite some ...

Riding on an all-new T1 platform, Chevy's 2019 Silverado introduces many new features for the nameplate, one of which is an electronic, push-button parking brake. This makes the all-new model the ...

In my 50 years of experience as an ASE and General Motors master technician and automotive technology instructor, I’ve found ...

After recently completing the installation of a new rear suspension under our 1936 Phaeton it was time to complete that installation with a working emergency brake. Our first order of business was to ...