Don't new cars have automatic parking brakes?
I drive a manual, and even if you park it in gear, with some bad luck and a slighly "worn down" engine, it'll roll, so most of the people just pull the hand brake.
I drive a manual, and even if you park it in gear, with some bad luck and a slighly "worn down" engine, it'll roll, so most of the people just pull the hand brake.
When I first moved to CA people would get tickets for failing to do so... but that was when police still bothered doing things. Nowadays I see more cars parked incorrectly than correctly on hills in the bay area.
Why they don’t always auto engage the parking break is beyond me. It automatically disengages when you apply throttle. Most people would literally never notice it being applied.
They're usually a pain, because if you want to tow a vehicle with them, you either have to turn the vehicle on, to disable them (not always an option if it's an electrical issue) you have to find the manual release (if the car has one), or in some cases, even remove both rear tires and unscrew a part of a brake assembly.... but yeah... not that odd, with an old renault, you had to remove a tire to change the front light.