Disc brakes used to be found mainly on the front wheels of vehicles, with drum brakes at the rear. Today most passenger vehicles have disc brakes all around. Each brake has a flat steel disc — you ...

If you take a second to look at your car's brakes, you might realize that the front brakes are larger than the back — sometimes they're even ventilated, and the back isn't. This isn't some kind of ...

The parking brake, or emergency brake, is usually attached to a car’s rear wheels. On vehicles with rear drum brakes, the parking brake is usually attached with cables to the rear brakes, as shown in ...

The scenario reads like this: you’re in your car, stopped at an intersection—but cross traffic isn’t required to stop. You want to pull out, either to go straight through the intersection or to turn, ...