Engineering the “Stay-Put”: A Technical Comparison of Low Speed Vehicle Parking Brake Systems
For those of us in the low-speed electric vehicle (LSEV) industry, there's a recurring theme during vehicle commissioning and customer handover: the parking brake. While top speed and range dominate spec sheets, the parking system is the single most frequent point of contact between the user and the vehicle's core safety architecture. It dictates not only safety but also ergonomics, NVH (Noise, Vi...