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 need to stop a moving car quickly is a situation most drivers would choose to avoid. It's also a situation that almost every driver will eventually face in their years at the wheel of a car, truck ...

Modern vehicles tend to come equipped with more technologically advanced safety features than some owners are even aware of. While many of those systems can be pricey to repair when they malfunction, ...

Where the previous norm for most cars was to have a large manual parking brake jutting out of the center console next to the driver's seat, many modern vehicles are instead equipped with electronic ...

Not long ago, I was cruising along an empty country highway when my attention wandered to the electronic parking brake button. With no other cars in sight, I started wondering what would happen if I ...

When parking a car on an incline, we all know to use the parking brake (or hand brake, emergency brake, e-brake, or whatever you want to call it). It's also good to turn the wheels toward the curb to ...