On 24/01/2020 18:31, mm0fmf wrote:
On 24/01/2020 12:41, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
My current car has an electric motorised handbrake. It's called a
'parking brake' and thats ALL it is designed for, and its riddy
awkward to iuse in a traffic queue on a slope as it takes an
appreciable time to disengage

It's faulty then. Previous car's electric brake engaged in under 0.5 secs.
0.5 seconds is an appreciable time


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