why is the emergency brake named that? i thought it was just for parking.

anyone got any info?

 

if your regular brakes go out while you are driving then thats a emergency,...thus having a backup called the "emergency brake" ....or say you are crusing and there is a car in front of you that is stopped,..you can hit your foot brake and your emergency brake to try and stop in time

 

also the emergency brake is used for some good times in the snow

 

yeah i only brought up this question bc last night i was playing with the ebrake, i dont think that if my front brakes suddenly "went" that the ebrake would do anything bc of hydraulic pressure in the lines. i found that out the hard way, when one of my calipers leaked and i didnt have any brakes at all since there wasnt any pressure being held in the lines.

also i tried out pulling the ebrake and then pressing the brake pedal, it only caused my *** end to swing out so i was sliding sideways

 

That's the reason e-brakes are cable-operated and not hydraulic. Otherwise they'd be useless in the event you had a leak or something in your brake lines.

 

its when you need some emergancy fun........

 

B/c Drift Brake doesnt sound as "professional"

 

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haha drift brake.

 

With all the flaming that goes on in this forum, big ups to you for asking a question that I couldn't help but giggle about. I sometimes wondered why they called it the emergency brake too.

 

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This is wrong. If you are hitting the brakes with your foot the brakes are already engaged in the rear, pulling the e-brake will do absolutely nothing. The e-brake is just another way of engaging the exact same brake.

 

I always thought it was actually just called a "hand brake." I guess I've just been watching too many drift videos.

 

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This is wrong. If you are hitting the brakes with your foot the brakes are already engaged in the rear, pulling the e-brake will do absolutely nothing. The e-brake is just another way of engaging the exact same brake. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Actually this could just lock up the back brakes and cause you to either slide off to the side or ram into the back of the other car.

 

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Actually this could just lock up the back brakes and cause you to either slide off to the side or ram into the back of the other car.</TD></TR></TABLE>

True, but I meant in terms of slowing the car down it isn't going to do anything.

 

Why is that door on airplanes called the emergency exit?

 

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Because it really has to be an emergency for anyone to use that.

 

Maybe it's to prevent a parking emergency...

 

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Because when you use it around a corner, your passenger has an emergency in their pants.

 

Exactly. If for somereason your brake system fails grab the handle and slowly pull up. Don't just yank it up and lock the wheels, even though if you are going straight you won't go out of control like everyone thinks. You'll slow down quick enough. Works well for a little extra brake biasing in road racing. Most of the "foot pedal" ones are called parking breaks like on the GM vehicles. I assume these are still cable actuated and could still be used in an emergency.

 

It's actucally wrong to call it an emergency brake. It's a parking brake. This is what my toyota t-ten teacher told us. The main purpose of it is to makes sure the car will not move while parked, its not suppose to be used in an emergency.

That's what i learned about it but i dont agree. I think it i was in an emergency situation w no brake i would use it hense "emergency" brake.

 

emergency brake-0--the only thing that slowed me from 140 mphs before hitting a wall

 

also great for drifting in a front wheel drive car

 

i see three uses for the "E-brake".

1. parking
2. emergencies
and...
3. driffffffffffffffffffffffffft