Death of the handbrake: Hardly any new cars have them - but are parking buttons better?
- Choice of new models with 手動式の handbrakes 拒絶する／低下するs by 61% since 2019
- Car part to be killed off soon as brands switch to electronic parking ブレーキs
- Electronic parking ブレーキs are far more expensive to 修理 - here's the difference?
If you buy a new car from a showroom today, there's a very high chance it won't have a 手動式の handbrake lever in the middle of the cabin.
That's because more than nine in ten new モーターs are instead equipped with electronic parking ブレーキs, によれば market 分析.
A review of the 最新の 乗り物s on sale 明らかにする／漏らすd that only 9 per cent are fitted with a 従来の pull-lever handbrake, with the 大多数 switching to button-operated electronic system - which appear to be 原因（となる）ing 問題／発行する for some drivers.
Last week, a 運転者 攻撃する，衝突する headlines after their home 安全 camera 逮捕（する）d the embarrassing moment they forgot to engage the electronic parking ブレーキ on their Audi SUV, which subsequently rolled 今後s off the driveway into the road.
But not only are electronic ブレーキs 平易な to forget to engage, they can be very 高くつく／犠牲の大きい to 修理 - more than three times pricier than 直す／買収する，八百長をするing a 手動式の handbrake, This is Money 明らかにする／漏らすs.
End of the road for the 手動式の handbrake: より小数の than one in 10 new models now have one as the 伝統的な car part is 推定する／予想するd to become extinct by the end of the １０年間
An 年次の market review 行為／行うd by online モーター retailer CarGurus at the end of 2023 設立する that 21 of the remaining models equipped with 手動式の handbrakes were scrapped from showrooms during the calendar year.
It means 買い手s have 61 per cent より小数の cars to choose from that are equipped with a 手動式の handbrake compared to 2019.
The 早い 見えなくなる of cars with 従来の handbrakes has been 加速するd by brands 溝へはまらせる／不時着するing some ageing models in their 範囲s.
の中で these is Britain's favourite car of all time (based on sales), the Ford Fiesta.
Ford's 決定／判定勝ち（する） to kill off the Fiesta, the nation's most-owned モーター last summer?also took with it one of the few models still sold with a 手動式の handbrake.
Ford's discontinuation of the EcoSport and Kia also axeing its Rio supermini 除去するd two その上の cars with handbrakes.
Volkswagen 中止するing 生産（高）s of the Up! city car at the end of 2023 has 除去するd another model with a handbrake in 最近の months.?
買い手s now have 61% より小数の cars to choose from that come equipped with a 手動式の handbrake compared to 2019, CarGurus 設立する during their 年次の market review
Some 21 models that had been equipped with a 手動式の handbrake were 除去するd from sale last year. One of those was Britain's most-owned car, the Ford Fiesta?
Ford also culled the EcoSport compact crossover SUV last year. It was another car sold with a 手動式の handbrake (seen 権利)
Kia discontinued the Rio supermini last year, taking with it another of the few 乗り物s left in showrooms that had a 手動式の handbrake and not an electronic parking ブレーキ
改訂するd 見解／翻訳／版s of the Renault Clio, Renault Captur, Toyota Land 巡洋艦 and Toyota Yaris in 2023 also switched from the 伝統的な handbrake to electronic parking ブレーキs.
The 熟考する／考慮する 設立する that the brands that 申し込む／申し出 the highest 百分率 of models with a 手動式の handbrake at the end of last year were Suzuki (five of seven models, or 71 per cent), Abarth (two of three models, or 66 per cent) and Dacia (two of four models, or 50 per cent).
Fiat and SsangYong 一連の会議、交渉／完成するd out the 最高の，を越す five, with 45 per cent and 40 per cent of their models having handbrakes.
Here's a 決裂／故障 of the major car 製造者s and which ones sell models with 手動式の handbrakes. Some 18 out of the 38 scrutinised 申し込む／申し出 乗り物s only with electronic parking ブレーキs
When will the handbrake be killed off for good??
Since the first instalment of CarGurus' handbrake 報告（する）／憶測 in 2018, the 百分率 of models on sale with a 手動式の handbrake has dropped from 37 per cent to just 9 per cent.
With many car 製造者s 移行ing to electric 乗り物s (EVs) around the end of the １０年間 in time for the 提案するd 禁止（する） on sales of new 石油 and ディーゼル cars from 2035, the 伝統的な 構成要素 is likely to be extinct in new モーターs in the 早期に 2030s.
Chris Knapman, CarGurus UK 編集（者）の director, said: 'It seems the 令状ing's on the 塀で囲む for the fabled 手動式の handbrake as the 百分率 of new cars equipped with one 下落するs into 選び出す／独身 人物／姿／数字s.'
Chris 追加するs that the 'once 全世界の／万国共通の feature' is now 大部分は reserved for smaller and more affordable 石油 乗り物s, 含むing Britain's cheapest new car, the Kia Picanto, and others such as Mazda's 2 supermini.?
'However, the reality is that there’s every chance we will see the 手動式の handbrake become extinct on mainstream cars by the end of the １０年間,' he 結論するd.
Electronic parking ブレーキs are considered by the 産業 and some drivers to be more convenient because they automatically 解放する／撤去させる when you 運動 away and should - if you follow the 訂正する 手続き - 活動させる／戦時編成する when you park up
However, plenty of traditionalists much prefer the tactile and mechanical feel of a 従来の handbrake, which is also far いっそう少なく expensive to 直す／買収する，八百長をする when things go wrong?
The price drivers 支払う／賃金 for electronic parking ブレーキs?
While there are those who believe electronic parking ブレーキs are more convenient thanks to their (a)自動的な／(n)自動拳銃 約束／交戦 and hill-持つ／拘留する 活性化, plenty of traditionalists still prefer a 手動式の handbrake for their 簡単 and mechanical feel.
従来の handbrakes are also likely to be much いっそう少なく expensive to 修理 than electronic 代案／選択肢s if they go wrong.?
CarGurus said 修理ing an electronic handbrake can be as much as three times the cost of a 手動式の handbrake.
によれば data held by the 学校／設ける of 自動推進の Engineer Assessors, the 普通の／平均（する） 法案 to 直す／買収する，八百長をする a 手動式の handbrake fault last year was £220.37, while 解決するing an 問題／発行する with an electronic parking ブレーキ was £665.98.
This is Money asked used car warranty provider MotorEasy for an 普通の／平均（する） （人命などを）奪う，主張する 法案 to 直す／買収する，八百長をする both handbrake and electronic parking ブレーキ 問題／発行するs.
The warranty provider told us the 普通の／平均（する） 修理 cost for a fault with a 手動式の handbrake is around £250, 反して for an electronic parking ブレーキ it is more than three times higher at £820.
Do electronic handbrakes automatically engage??
同様に as heftier 法案s, some 運転者s are 支払う／賃金ing the price of becoming 極端に reliant on the convenience of the newer tech.
Electronic parking ブレーキs automatically 解放する／撤去させる when a driver pulls away and 活動させる／戦時編成する once they pull up and park.
However, there are times when the latter might not happen, either because the driver hasn't followed the 訂正する sequence of putting the 乗り物 into 中立の with a 手動式の gearbox or 'park' with an (a)自動的な／(n)自動拳銃, or 予定 to a fault with the system.
Account 経営者／支配人 Vicky 小道／航路, 23, from Hemel Hempstead, 苦しむd an electronic parking ブレーキ-関係のある 事故 when pulling up in her Audi Q2
Having failed to engage the parking ブレーキ 適切に, the car rolled 負かす／撃墜する her driveway - 辛うじて 行方不明の a 盗品故買者 地位，任命する - into the road
Last week, Vicky 小道／航路 from Hemel Hempstead 株d the embarrassing moment she forgot to 活動させる／戦時編成する the electronic parking ブレーキ in her Audi Q2.
The compact crossover - which 開始する，打ち上げるd in 2016 - is 排他的に fitted with an electronic parking ブレーキ across all 削減する levels.
（映画の）フィート数 showed the 23-year-old account 経営者／支配人 出口ing her car after parking up, only to see it slowly disappearing 負かす／撃墜する the driveway because the parking ブレーキ hadn't been 適用するd 正確に.
にもかかわらず trying as hard as she could to stop the car from rolling into the road, the 解放する／自由な-wheeling German SUV - and Vicky - 辛うじて 行方不明になる a 盗品故買者 地位，任命する before Vicky manages to get inside to 適用する the ブレーキ.?
The ビデオ 最高潮の場面s the 可能性のある dangers of failing to check if an electronic parking ブレーキ has engaged or not.
HOW DOES IT WORK? 手動式の handbrake VS electronic parking ブレーキ?
伝統的な handbrake?
A lever-operated 手動式の handbrake might seem much more basic in comparison to its electronic 同等（の）, but the 原則 of how it 作品 is the same in that it clamps the ブレーキs on a car’s 後部 axle to 妨げる the wheels from moving.?
This is 達成するd 経由で a piston within the ブレーキ caliper that 押し進めるs a ブレーキ pad on to the ブレーキ レコード (or 派手に宣伝する).?
In a car with a 手動式の handbrake, the piston is operated 経由で a physical cable that runs from the 後部 ブレーキs to the handbrake lever.?
As the ブレーキ pads wear and the handbrake cable stretches, a 手動式の parking ブレーキ might need to be adjusted to 持続する its 十分な 有効性.
Electronic parking ブレーキ?
With an electronic parking ブレーキ, th e piston that clamps the ブレーキ レコード is operated 経由で a switch that 取って代わるs the 伝統的な mechanical lever.?
This switch electronically 活動させる／戦時編成するs (no cables 要求するd) a pair of small モーターs which 原因（となる）s the 後部 ブレーキ pads to move and either clamp or 解放（する） the ブレーキs.?
予定 to the way it 作品, an electronic parking ブレーキ self adjusts and so 要求するs いっそう少なく 維持／整備, but it is 潜在的に more expensive to 修理 in the event it goes wrong.
Source: CarGurus?
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