What is a disc brake system? How can one be faster without adding more ponies to the engine? One way is to make your car lighter. Having a higher power-to-weight ratio will make your car faster since ...

GM has a wide swath of safety technologies available across its vehicle portfolio, with many of the systems offering different levels of capability and specific areas of focus. Among these is a ...

Drivers are required to know a few basics about their brake systems in order to pass the CDL test, but how much of what they learned in school do they retain and practice every day? Can they recognize ...

Continuing just-auto’s series of interviews with tier one suppliers of electronic braking systems, Matthew Beecham talked with Dr Sören Kirchner, Head of Segment Electronic Parking Brakes within the ...

Brake-by-wire systems are becoming more common thanks to their compact packaging and ability to manage electrified cars’ regenerative braking systems. That doesn’t mean everyone is necessarily ...

German carmaker Mercedes Benz has proposed a more efficient braking system for electric vehicles (EVs). The concept, called 'In-Drive Brakes', relocates the braking system from the wheels to the ...

Automatic emergency braking (AEB) is a safety system that can identify when a possible collision is about to occur and responds by autonomously activating the brakes to slow a vehicle prior to impact ...

Most new vehicles sold in the United States these days are fitted with an Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) system as standard. In fact, 20 major carmakers representing “more than 99 percent” of the ...