With automatic vehicles making up the majority of traffic and self-driving cars gearing up to take over, learning how to drive isn't such a big deal. Nowadays, kids as young as ten years already have ...

How often do you hear drivers complaining about weak engine brakes? Some drivers will say the engine brake provides so little retarding power they have to use their service brakes to help decelerate ...

Last month's installment of our 60th Anniversary Speedway Motors Tribute T was fairly painless, as getting it to the rolling chassis stage was genuinely like building a 1:1 scale model kit, except we ...

Every diesel truck owner wants an engine brake on their rig. That is if they don’t already have one. They help slow your pickup without cooking the brakes. But how do they work? And why don’t pickup ...

Did you know that when you’re doing an engine overhaul, you also should take the time to tune up the engine brake? Too often, the fleet or repair shop gets wrapped up in the engine overhaul and does ...

The Jacobs compression release engine brake, or "Jake brake," is now in its 60th year of service, with more than 9 million of the systems manufactured by 2019. The compression release brake system, ...

Discover how MotoGP Engine Braking works, why it’s vital for control, performance and safety, and how advanced electronics ...

The disc brake as we know it was first patented in 1902, but it failed to gain acceptance in the U.S. until the early 1960s, when vacuum-assist power brakes made the pedal effort acceptable for the ...

In the wide, wide world of automotive terminology, there are a number of parts with names that are pretty logical and help to understand how cars work. Slang words aside, like a spider hose, some ...

Truckers have long appreciated the safety value of engine retarders, but the general public has always been annoyed by the noise they produce. That's the mystery faced by engine brake manufacturers ...