I rent a lot of cars 'cause I go on the road. When I drive a rental car, I don’t know what’s going on with it. A lot of times I drive for ten miles with the emergency brake on. That doesn’t say a lot for me, but it really doesn’t say a lot for the “emergency brake”. It’s really not an emergency brake, it’s an emergency “make the car smell funny lever”.
I recently had this conversation with my teens. Going through drivers Ed, they want you to use the emergency brake when parking, but odds are against them ever driving a manual where you’d need it. It’s unfortunate that such a potentially useful thing like the “make the car smell funny” lever is just a way to keep spending money on brakes over and over
Well, it is a parking brake and not an emergency brake. And while in an automatic you can use park and mostly rely on the parking pawl to keep the car from moving, on inclines it’s not good for the transmissions.
– Mitch Hedberg
I recently had this conversation with my teens. Going through drivers Ed, they want you to use the emergency brake when parking, but odds are against them ever driving a manual where you’d need it. It’s unfortunate that such a potentially useful thing like the “make the car smell funny” lever is just a way to keep spending money on brakes over and over
Well, it is a parking brake and not an emergency brake. And while in an automatic you can use park and mostly rely on the parking pawl to keep the car from moving, on inclines it’s not good for the transmissions.