When you pull it up, a cable running to the rear wheels operates a cylinder which pushes the brake pads against the discs or drum. The idea behind both is to prevent a car from moving when it’s stationary.Ī manual handbrake is the traditional lever. Handbrakes and parking brakes are the same thing. But why are they taking over? What’s the difference between electronic and manual handbrakes? In 2022, the ranges of nearly half (45 per cent) of the UK’s 38 car makers don’t feature a manual handbrake at all.įrom your correspondence and requests for advice, we know that electronic parking brakes are a particular bugbear. In the vast majority of new cars, it has been replaced by the electronic parking brake which has increased from a 63 to 87 per cent spread in just five years. A survey by car sales website CarGurus UK found that only 13 per cent of new models currently on sale have the ratcheted lever that has for so long been a driving staple.
Along with the automatic gearbox, the traditional manual handbrake is on the motoring extinction red list.
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