The remaining funds will support erosion repairs to the brake engine on the Hill Pits tramroad incline, which carried coal to Blaenavon Ironworks from the 1840s.

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The components companies are not too happy with the new arrangement where they are forced to display their brake, transmission, engine and other components 20 kilometers away from the glitz surrounding the car models.

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In a review of the Swedish supercar the Koenigsegg Agera R, I displayed ignorance regarding a common measure of an engine's volumetric efficiency, the Brake Mean Effective Pressure.

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One possible use of this technology is to provide context information from the car, something like the engine speed has reached 2000 rpm, the parking brake has been disengaged, the transmission gear is in drive and the brake pedal is fully off the floor.

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Basically, using the car's "engine braking" is what let us stay off the brake pedal.

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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.

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