Most drivers carry the same mental image: yank the parking brake at speed and brace for screeching tires, a violent rear-end snap, and a car spinning wildly out of control. It’s the kind of move that ...

The panic trickled from my eyeballs to my toes when I answered my dad’s phone call at 1 a.m. on that Saturday night. I was one beer deep into my roommate’s 21st birthday celebration at a bar in Mizzou ...

These instructions for adjusting your parking brake work only if you have drum brakes on your rear wheels. If you have a manual transmission, you may have a transmission-type parking brake, which ...