As our 1960 Corvette project rolls along, we are dealing with some of the smaller tasks involved in a frame-up build. One such project is connecting the parking brake cables from our Wilwood disc ...

Quickly fading are the days when we were free to dream of cranking a lever connected to cables that would squeeze the brakes and break traction, as more and more modern cars replace cabled emergency ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hitachi Cable, Ltd. (TOKYO:5812) is announcing the successful development of a harness for electric parking brakes (hereinafter referred to as "EPB"). In addition to the mass ...

The parking brake, or emergency brake, is usually attached to a car’s rear wheels. On vehicles with rear drum brakes, the parking brake is usually attached with cables to the rear brakes, as shown in ...

Many moons ago, drivers would tug on an awkward metal lever, typically found on their vehicle's center console, to apply their parking brake. Typically, this was an entirely mechanical affair as this ...

The parking brake, often referred to as the emergency brake, is critical for keeping a vehicle stationary when parked, especially on an inclined surface. Fewer cars have manual transmissions these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Where the previous norm for most cars was to have a large manual parking brake jutting out of the center console next to the ...