Ask a Automotive Brake Engineer

[Brakeman]

Ok, tell us a fact about brake technology that you find fascinating, and that we probably don't know!

I think one of the things that surprised me the most was that brake design is not one of superlatives per se. We can produce brakes that have phenomenal stopping distances. We could educate to greatly reduce pad wear and dust creation. We could produce brakes that are cooler, lighter weight, easier to maintain, all kinds of different measures, but the industry decides designs in a very strange committee method with lots of touchy, feelly evaluations.

I still scratch my head over some companies' decisions.