The crash of a runaway train in Quebec is calling attention to the crucial role of hand brakes in keeping tank cars out of harm's way. The estimated number of hand brakes that must be applied on rail ...

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 ...

Let's face it: Some designs just weren't good, regardless of how many different ways Ford passed them along to us 40 years ago. Flaws such as leaking cowl vents, flimsy door and window mechanisms, ...

Opening the way to cars without a handbrake lever, automobile brakes manufacturer, Brakes India Private Ltd, has developed a motor on drum brake that frees up the cabin space occupied by the lever, ...

Disc brakes resemble hand brakes on a bicycle, where pulling on the brake lever forces a plier-like device to squeeze rubber blocks against the rim of the wheel to stop the car. Drum brakes are a ...