"Lewis suffered a loss of rear brake pressure, the front brakes enabled him to slow the car but he couldn't avoid the barrier, " said Mercedes on Twitter.

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With continued tensions involving countries like Syria and Iran, this outlook will be an essential brake if pressure to go to war intensifies.

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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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He argues that with antilock brake and stability systems, 100 percent reliability is possible because they merely survey signals from within the car: wheel speed, pressure applied to the brake pedal, and so on.

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Suddenly, pressure on what he knows is the brake seems to make the vehicle go faster.

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