Say goodbye to the mechanical parking brake and the levers, ratchets, cables and adjusters that go with it. Electrically operated parking brakes are starting to replace mechanical systems, which have ...

The progression of typically mechanical vehicle systems toward electronic control has been—for the average consumer, anyway—one of the less-visible technological shifts of the last 50 years.

The electric brakes are expected to be the first step to computer-controlled brake-by-wire systems, which are forecast to arrive in about a decade, according to Automotive News Europe. Electric ...