If your car's brake lights stay on even when the engine is off, the brake light switch — a small, innocuous electrical part you'd only see once something goes wrong with it — is likely the culprit. It ...

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Brakes locking up without warning? Congratulations, you've just experienced the automotive equivalent of your pants getting caught on a doorknob. One minute you're cruising along, singing off-key to ...

Automotive brakes haven’t changed much in nearly a century. Decades ago, engineers came up with a great system, and have largely stuck with it. With the dawn of electric vehicles, automakers had the ...

Brakes, much like tires, are largely considered an unsexy part of a car. They perform the task of ending the fun; they’re the opposite of the thrill of acceleration and cornering. Any time someone ...

On a sunny day, a Mazda CX-5 was accelerated to 40 mph and purposely driven toward an object to test whether it would hit it.

ZF stuffed its dry brake-by-wire system into a Cadillac Lyriq mule and offered laps around a closed course. The ZF dry brake-by-wire system replaces traditional hydraulic brakes with electric motors ...

Brian Cooley is CNET's Editor at large and has been with the brand since 1995. He currently focuses on electrification of vehicles but also follows the big trends in smart home, digital healthcare, 5G ...

The question of which car first featured standard disc brakes is more complicated than you might think. While some American automakers were early to the party, it was a pair of European brands that ...