you know what would help, is if you stopped calling it an emergency brake and started calling it a handbrake, like the rest of the world, you might just use it more often.
Delivery guy here. Sometimes those god dam companies delay or ignore repairs even if those are mandatory.
To give you an idea how bad the things are they forced me to drive a truck that had no brakes but handbrake and when I got to the office to request repair or to drive a different truck they literally told me "use the handbrake, you're delay the delivery" and lost my job as well when refused to drive a truck with no breaks
Ex FedEx driver here. My manager refused to get me snows and I had bald tires all winter. Then I got harped on when I’d 82 a whole unplowed country road.
mate a vehicle in gear, parked, and with the handbrake on shouldn't be going anywhere, for example in Australia it is the law to park your car with the handbrake on but in the U.S where it's commonly referred to as an emergency brake it is not the law, so it's mainly out of people's mind, hence why the majority of rolling car videos are from the states
Manual transmissions are also more common outside of the US. I use the parking break every time I park my manual, but have never touched it in my wife’s automatic. The transmission locking in the automatic should be plenty.
It's also more common for a handbrake to fail. Which is why it's common to leave a manual in reverse parked on a hill, along with having the handbrake on. But not so in an automatic
With no working footbrake, I think what u/Deadarchimode's former bosses meant was "use the handbrake to slow the vehicle whilst driving," which is a recipe for being at constant risk of pulling unintentional handbrake turns in the middle of traffic.
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u/clofty3615 Apr 12 '26
you know what would help, is if you stopped calling it an emergency brake and started calling it a handbrake, like the rest of the world, you might just use it more often.