Why can a vehicle still accelerate when the emergency brake is engaged?

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Why can a vehicle still accelerate when the emergency brake is engaged?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Cars don’t have “Emergency brakes”, that would be the foot pedal. The hand lever is called a parking brake and that is all it is intended for. It clamps down on the rear brakes when you’re parked so all the weight isn’t on the gears of the transmission.

Source: Two years of Automotive Technology classes.

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