Can an electronic parking brake actually be used for an emergency situation let's
find out
welcome back my name is Brandon Haneline your Jeep Informant and if this is
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along with clicking that bell so today we'll be using a 2018 Jeep renegade I
want to see if the electronic parking brake can actually be used in an
emergency situation, now before we find out if the electronic parking brake
can't actually be used as an emergency brake let me give you a quick little
history lesson. Now 17 years ago BMW decided they were gonna launch the
all-new electronic parking brake they did this on the 7 Series and then 13
years later jeep decided they wanted to do it on the cheap cherokee KL body now
since then Fiat Chrysler automobiles have been using this across the platform
on several different vehicles such as the new Pacifica the older Chrysler 200
and also the renegade but what's interesting to me is there some
manufacturers out there that don't even have a parking brake at all the two that
I know about Tesla and the other expensive Koenigsegg sometimes I think
manufacturers are taking the human interactivity out of the vehicle and
putting more electronics in there which to me doesn't make it as fun to drive I
enjoy driving how about you well enough about that let's head out to the Jeep
now the Auto vlog Channel did this on his 2015 Ford Fusion
but we're gonna try it here on the 2018 Jeep renegade let's see what happens
when you pull it up going 41 miles an hour
and when you do that you just get a little tug there's another little tug
and it almost feels like it applause and let's go applies and let's go so if you
had a manual park brake lever and you had an emergency then you would just
yank that thing up as hard as you could to stop the vehicle as
quick as possible so what would you do in this situation with the electronic
one so what you would do is you pull the little lever up and you hold it and when
you do those parking brakes grab real tight to bring the vehicle to a stop as
quick as possible now if you let go of that that would just be like putting the
parking brake down so it releases then now a little more technical information
on this parking brake system it actually does use the the brake pads that are
used for your standard braking there's just an actuator on the back of it this
thing a kind like a screw kind of and when voltage is applied one way it
screws it in and when voltage is applied the other way it screws it out all right
now here's some more information that you may not know about the parking brake
so if you've got it in Drive okay and you've got the parking brake not applied
the vehicle is stationary and you open the door with the seatbelt unplugged you
let off the brakes and leave it automatically applies the brake because
you know I guess it think we're gonna fall out or something so as you can see
the auto parking brake has not checked off there so what we experienced was not
the auto part brake that's just a basic standard safety feature this on the
electronic parking brake system so what auto park brake actually is is when you
have that checked and you're driving down the road and you come to stop and
you put it in part boom right there you can see the parking brake sets
automatically you don't have to pull that little lever there so to answer the
question can the parking brake be used for an emergency yes it could but they
don't call it emergency brake for legal reasons well that's all I have today
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