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Yeah unless you live in a very hilly place it probably isn’t used too often. But it’s also the “I don’t care about what happens, stop the car NOW” brake in my h
by graypegg 3y ago
Yeah unless you live in a very hilly place it probably isn’t used too often. But it’s also the “I don’t care about what happens, stop the car NOW” brake in my head. “E-brake” is what I learned it as. I’m surprised people are ok with that being on the same drive-by-wire system as the standard brake.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoEbrake isn't really that strong to be fair. You can still drive with it engaged. Probably bad to rely on it in an emergency given it has no abs.
- kristjansson 3y agoI lent a car to someone in college who only noticed the ebrake was still on when a campus officer flagged them down to ask why the back wheel was smoking.
- blamazon 3y agoI've done this by accident a few times in my life - smell is usually the first indicator as the rubber components near the brakes start to suffer.
- mlyle 3y ago> Probably bad to rely on it in an emergency given it has no abs If the normal brakes don't work (which, admittedly, is much rarer these days), it's your last line of defense. It's less important than it used to be, with dual redundancy required by regulation and with digital systems monitoring both braking loops. But there's still single points of failure on the brake pedal (like the pedal itself).
- numpad0 3y agoIt's called either handbrake or parking brake and that is what it is. I think calling it "e-brake" is American thing, bit weird like calling starter motor a "railroad e-motor". Anyways, other reasons for electric parking brake than already discussed is hill and stop light hold. Electronic brake pedal control relies on stored negative pressure on brake booster and cannot maintain pressure indefinitely, as opposed to electric parking brake which can.