Stanley invented a double-brake system using two brake shoes supported by springs that clamp down on a disc.
Honda's Collision Mitigation Brake System (CMS), for example, uses a forward-looking millimetre-wave radar to scan the road ahead.
Just this week, Toyota recalled hundreds of thousands of 2010 Priuses for problems associated with its brake system.
And an ANA Dreamliner flight was canceled in Japan on Wednesday, because of a glitch with its brake system.
An airline official said it was not a mechanical problem, but a computer error on the electric brake system controls.
The large wheels also create the necessary space for installing the BRABUS high-performance brake system with 12-piston aluminum fixed calipers and 380 x 36-mm (15.0 x 1.42 inches) vented and cross-drilled discs in front, and 355 x 28-mm (14.0 x 1.1 inches) discs and six-piston aluminum fixed calipers on the rear axle.
As it happens, Toyota later announced that it is planning to install as standard equipment a brake override system in which the brake will stop the car even if the accelerator is pressed simultaneously.
Both drugs turn off a natural brake on immune system activity called CTLA4 (cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4).
Both cars can be equipped with optional torque vectoring, a brake-based system built to augment the mechanically locking rear differential and help put power to the ground.
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The system allows a 1.6kWh lithium-ion battery pack, mounted behind the seats for weight distribution reasons, to be charged through a rear axle electro-hydraulic brake energy regeneration system.
In 2004 Mercedes-Benz faced customers complaints that its Sensotronic brake-by-wire system - which used an electrical link to control vehicles' brake pads - sometimes failed.
Indeed, the prototype has a distance-keeping system that will brake to a standstill, and move off again when the car in front moves.
The computer-control system can then apply the brake on the wheel concerned, and even adjust the amount of engine torque sent to that wheel, so that skidding is prevented.
In addition, Mercedes-Benz has already equipped this innovative electric car with the radar-based collision warning system COLLISION PREVENTION ASSIST with adaptive Brake Assist as standard.
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As the anticipated time-to-impact decreases, CMS prepares the car for sudden braking by moving the brake pads nearer to the brake disks, and finally, when the system concludes that a collision is less than one second away, it starts to apply the brakes itself.
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In addition to the aforementioned traction-control system, standard features include ABS brakes, electronic brake assistance, child safety locks and driver, passenger and side-head air bags.
Not only does this second-guess the will of locally elected politicians, but with 20 per cent surplus places in the Welsh education system, it's also acted as a brake on rationalising the structure of schools in many areas - currently one in two, a staggering 50 per cent of all local reorganisation proposals end up on Ministers' desks.
The left cluster shows Brake Coach, a feature that helps drivers optimize their use of the regenerative braking system so that driving range can be enhanced through proper braking techniques.
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Adaptive Cruise Control, Emergency Brake Assist, available Blind Spot Monitoring, available Automatic High Beam Assist and an available Surround Camera System are all on the menu.
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