Kubica and BMW Sauber team-mate Nick Heidfeld, who finished among the final five slowest times in both sessions, struggled with brake balance with Kubica even describing it as a "disaster" early on.
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.
It is like a pulley with a brake on it to keep the weight moving slowly down generating energy on its descent.
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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The Chernobyl design is like a car with no gas peddle that is always at full throttle, and you control the car entirely with the brake.
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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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The pilots then use their usual controls to steer with the nose wheel (which in turn steers the TaxiBot) and to brake with the main landing gear.
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But if you don't have room for these maneuvers, you have to brake with your feet, sending gouts of snowy slush right at your face.
Mission managers continue to grapple with a steering brake problem.
Hybrids have proven themselves especially well with regard to inexpensive brake repairs, thanks to regenerative braking.
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Stuck in second gear with a squirrelly front brake, I finally gave up all hope of a swim.
Then the stability control will reprove you with a chorus of brake chattering.
Sometimes switching to brake pads with a slightly different compound helps.
For the tune up we visited Dynamic Electric Vehicles in San Luis Obispo California where co-owner Vince Pacifico, gathered a few tools and tightened the brake cables with ease.
To date, 8.1 million vehicles worldwide have been recalled by the manufacturer, with the possibility of more to come after Thursday's announcement by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration of a formal investigation into brake problems with the 2010 Prius.
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.
The pedals feature a long range of travel, with progressive resistance on the brake pedal for maximum realism.
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The effect of such an oil spike would be to line the pockets of OPEC nations (and U.S. wildcatters and Russian potentates) with greenbacks while applying a brake to any nascent growth in the world economy.
The object of the game is to keep the floating ball in the center of the tube with judicious application of throttle and brake.
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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"We must have hit a rock because it smashed the wheel and we had to drive the final seven kilometres with the car running onto the brake disc, " said 30-year-old McRae.
Braking is straight and secure with minimal front-end dive and brake fade in hard stopping situations.
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Some studies have suggested that anti-lock brakes may actually cause collisions, because motorists become overconfident and either drive faster or brake later in cars equipped with the technology.
Now available from the Swedish company General Motors bought in 1990: a saucy new Saab 9-3 sedan with rain-sensitive windshield wipers and cornering brake control.
Ford recently raided a Chinese factory and turned up 7, 000 sets of counterfeit brake pads destined for Egypt, each stamped with a replica of Ford's blue oval.
But coming on top of the recall of cars with accelerator pedals that can jam open, another over brake pedals that sometimes refuse to operate is dreadful.
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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