Why New Cars Don’t Have Handbrakes Anymore #assembly #automobile #mechanic #manufacturing

mechanical handbreak and i would like it to stay that way

Mechanical handbrake, mechanical steering wheel ..hyraulic or electro-hydraulic but still mechanical not "steel by wire" type of BS

Its an auxiliary brake. Not a parking brake. Its a safety feature in case of catastrophic brake failure. Car manufacturers are morons for fitting electric parking brakes that fail all the time. They should be banned.

1. Tell us it is obsolete.
2. Show us how to install the said obsolete mechanism

I prefer for mechanical hnd break... Hope this system will not be faceout. This is much more safe

Mechanical is the way to go

Mechanical

newer cars are lighter than ever, truth is cable hand brakes would still be perfect for normal handbrake use. But, what's happening is this new stop start, hill start stuff which requires something a computer can control easily. It's not better, so far as I've heard the cost and maintenance on stop-start systems is costing more time, energy and resources in the long run than cars without them for 99% use cases

Doesn't have one my car has an ebrake that's foot operated

My handbrake is wireless and controlled by AI.. 🤣

F electric brakes. Just more problems.

electric handbrakes are garbage, no control. And don't get me started on hill-start-assist (that's only in manual cars you usa lot). too much trash on modern cars. I hate hiring cars as then i have to drive some modern junk with steering assist... steering assist my arse... steering knobbery more like...stupid machine trying to take control. One hire car even scolded me on the highway. Ludicrous.

Manual handbrake for the win ❤

Cant do stinky handbrake turns with a button 😂

Better pray nothing happen to that battery or else bye bye backup brakes

It's for emergency. Am electrical brake is harder to activate.

Because no one seems to care about the independet emergency brake anymore. The manual handbrake is a safety feature as it can be operated even if you loose the normal brakes. The electric handbrake contradicts this basic safety idea as it needs electricity to work.

So basicly newer cars with an electric handbrake are made with one less emergency system that could safe your life.

The most suped reson to get red of manual

Mechanic here, just wanted to say that with 8 yrs of dealing with all types of brake systems. The disc brakes with a mechanical emergency hand brake are by far the safest and easiest to repair and dont lose operational features when the battery loses power. The newer modern cars technically have no emergency brake, just a parking brake that will only be functional in park or in neutral with adequate power from the vehicles battery. Also, when trying to replace the rear brake pads and rotor with the electric parking brake motor is keeping us mechanics from doing our job quickly and efficiently which is tough enough as is. And dont even get me started on the electrical problems that can happen when other technicians bypase the motor with a 12v battery, wires, and some alligator clips. To properly compress the calipers, you must use an obd2 scan tool to put the brakes in service mode. Then, you can precede like normal, but after the repair, you must use the scan tool again to take the vehicle out of service mode. We need old school carburated motors with manual transmissions but with disc brakes and independent suspension on all 4 corners, you want cheap, easy to work on, and reliable vehicles that'll last even after an emp blast from a nuke, well now you've got my answer on what im driving in the apocalypse when everything goes to crap.

They get phased out, cause they need another part to fail for repair.

They are "on the way out"... ONLY because of the bizarre fascination with all things electronic. Electronic everything - whether it makes sense, or not. The problem is that electronic bits and bobs are not fully reliable, in the real world. In the lab, maybe so.

Ask yourself - which items have malfunctioned or failed outright on YOUR car, since you've had it ? They are, almost always, ELECTRONIC parts. NOT mechanical. These wonderful electronic faffs....fail at a rate of multiple times as often as analogous mechanical systems. An electronic parking brake ? That is a low-speed accident, waiting to happen. Mechanical parking brakes almost NEVER break - They just get out of adjustment, with brake wear.

The aforementioned insane fascination with all things electronic...in most cases in the auto industry....is really just about profit, anyway. Electronic everything sounds sexy and futuristic....and helps automakers get away with charging outrageous prices for their products.

On the way out out of cheapness!

As a mechanic, don't even get my started on electric p-brakes, especially when the battery dies and U don't have a jumper and scanner to release it. Can't say the amount of times I've had vehicles with some brake issues or another and I'm just using the hand brake to ease to a stop. Foot brakes are not bad as well but less control than hand boys

Cable civic 1991😊

ye try to hack that

cant pull an electric one to go sideways can you. i will take a mechanical or hydraulic one any day

I hate electrical handbrakes.

I love manual car..and the cost is less and convenient while parking uphill I used 1st gear and handbrake and downhill i engaged reverse gear and handbrake..while in plain surface where i mostly park my car I used only 1st gear

Mechanical handbrake is more reliable and trustworthy.

I STILL PREFER THE MANUAL HANDBRAKE 'COZ WHAT IF ELECTRONIC PÀRKING BRAKE DOES NOT WORK.

How to make a simple thing more complicated 101: Change mechanical e-brake with an E e-brake.

I drive a manual car with mechanical e-brake.

I hate that my manual car has an electric handbrake. ABSOLUTELY HATE IT! Planned obsolescence.

I prefer if it’s not broke, don’t fix it

Scotty Kilmer approves of hand brakes lol

Mine uses a stone

What's cheaper to make and repair? Which last longer? Exactly.

still the best method of parking brake

Wait, you don't have that? 😮

It's effective , manual , and foking satisfying ❤

gotta keep in mind that these are known as emergency brakes too, most button or switch operated handbrake are being replaced by single Park brake, and not many people knew how to activate it in emergency situations, that is: by flip/push and holding it for quite some times.

The push-button hand brake is disgustingly over engineered. Just pull it. It's not that difficult

I never use hand brakes, I never did

And the electric ones are crap! Made of plastic gears that die.

The only reason why mechanical parking breaks are phasing out is because of cost efficiency it cost less to buy a spool of electrical wire that it does a spool of cable.

Hand brake/emergency brake.
Manual can be engaged gradually.
Electronic is full on. Which may cause further loss of control.

They are part of the automated control of a car mechanical control they will never give you a choice most likely the steering system will be taken over automatically as well

WHEN it's not BROKE. DOOOOOOON'T CHANGE !!!!!

Why are manufacturers doing this?

Because we are supposed to be "consumers" and that is ALL
that they are supposed to do, consume!

They wouldn't do this to a fortune 500 company, that was buying a feet of vehicles.

Phased out for something that will
Cause problems
That will cost money

All of these are not to have any input in driving, people now a days have no mechanical ability or common sense to control anything

Mechanical it's always better