Our friends at RideApart discussed the possibility of a system like this being implemented in motorcycles. Indeed, it would offer a far more sophisticated braking experience and a smaller brake design ...

Stock brake systems are designed for stock cars. Any time you change the vehicle's total weight or the distribution of that weight, raise or lower the center of gravity, install "big 'n' little" ...

What is driving the pace of change in brake systems? One of the major drivers is meeting the requirements in the Transportation Dept.’s New Car Assessment Program for automotive emergency brakes (AEB) ...

Like other wBW reviews started late last year, the (somewhat) early onset of the white stuff is dictating changes regarding submission and publication. The inView by Third Eye Design product review is ...

Mack Trucks Inc. has introduced the PowerLeash engine brake, which is now available on Mack’s Application Specific Engine Technology (ASET) engines, providing drivers with improved vehicle braking ...

An analytical method applicable to design and development of antilock brake systems is described. Dynamic components of antilock systems---including vehicle, sensor, and modulator--are examined using ...

The front brakes on our street/strip 1967 Mustang's were pretty much toast. Although the pads still had plenty of meat on them, they were heavily glazed, and the rotors had developed hot spots, so ...

Brake-by-wire is an emerging technology whose advantages seem certain to make it the eventual solution for future vehicles, so Design News had a chat with Janani Neelakantan, Senior Technical Manager ...

One reason that today's vehicles are the safest in history is that, since 1968, all vehicles come equipped with dual brake systems to ensure that if one set of brakes fails, the other set can still ...

One of the top upgrades we're asked questions about every month is braking. How to get the car to stop better? What brake kit do I use? Should I go four-wheel-disc or just upgrade the front? And so on ...

Learn how lessons from medical robot design can be applied to all robotics from cobots to humanoids and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). Enjoying Machine Design’s Motion Systems content? Be sure to ...