An automobile at speed represents a considerable amount of kinetic energy, energy that must be dissipated in order to bring it to a stop. An automobile's brakes are designed to translate this energy ...

Rear AEB, also known as Reverse AEB and Reverse Automatic Braking, was shown to be more successful than other systems targeted to avoid backing collisions in a recent study by the Insurance Institute ...

ZF stuffed its dry brake-by-wire system into a Cadillac Lyriq mule and offered laps around a closed course. The ZF dry brake-by-wire system replaces traditional hydraulic brakes with electric motors ...

Isaac Atienza is a Filipino motoring journalist who joined TopSpeed.com in 2021. He also owns a Filpino motoring website called Go Flat Out PH and is also a contributor to a local newspaper called The ...

If brake-by-wire doesn't sound like a new thing to you, that's because it isn't. So how come everyone is talking about it ...

BOSTON - A warning from AAA: don't rely on your car's automatic braking system to stop you from backing into an oncoming car, or even a child. AAA says the automated systems are available in roughly ...

Automatic Emergency Brake systems are a wonderful invention, preventing many crashes when drivers become distracted. The safety assist system is mandatory in many countries, but it can work ...

Most people may not know it, but in many modern cars, the brakes aren't actually connected the way they used to be. Nowadays, pressing the pedal doesn't always mean you're pushing brake fluid through ...

As an avid car enthusiast, Joe enjoys time on the track, going to car meets, or simply taking a long drive in the Colorado mountains. Joe has always had a love for writing and cars, so he decided to ...

Discussions around the latest high-performance car, be it of the electric, pony, sports, super, or hyper variety, tend to focus on the 0 to 60 mph time. Lately, this all-important metric has seen ...

While many hot rods are driven with rough-running engines, suspensions that are too stiff, or horns that don't work, no car, hot rod or not, should be driven with brakes that aren't 100 percent. Since ...