Traditional automotive procedure dictates that, when you park your car somewhere, you should shift the gear selector to park and engage the emergency brake. It's definitely important to engage the ...

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, ...

Passengers trapped inside an A train that stopped shy of the 125th Street subway stop earlier Tuesday Jackie Faherty via AP The Harlem subway derailment happened when an emergency brake was activated ...

Pranksters pulling the subway brakes for no reason are abusing the system, but sometimes the brakes are important safety devices. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll look at when ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MANHATTAN — The NYPD released video of the ...

Manual gear sticks and chunky automatic gear selectors aren’t the only controls to have been replaced in a lot of modern cars by tiny switches – the humble handbrake made that transition quite some ...

Many moons ago, drivers would tug on an awkward metal lever, typically found on their vehicle's center console, to apply their parking brake. Typically, this was an entirely mechanical affair as this ...

Have you ever returned to your parked car or truck, shifted its automatic transmission from park, and been greeted by an alarming clunk as the vehicle lurches into gear? If you've got an old-school ...

If you've been driving cars for long enough, you're probably used to the idea of a physical handbrake located under the gear shifter. This was the dominant format for many decades, and a vital means ...