While some new cars will automatically apply the handbrake if the gear lever is in P and the engine is switched off, it’s a different mechanism. When you drive an automatic car, don’t confuse the handbrake with putting the gearbox in P for Park.
Around 70% of new cars come with push-button, electronically operated handbrakes – yet another electronic thing to go wrong. Mechanical handbrakes are in their twilight years, being phased out for electronic handbrakes that don’t create pointy, hard objects in the cabin and free up all-important space near the left hand for (yet another) cup holder.
A handle under or next to the steering wheel – mechanical.A switch or push button (usually between the driver and passenger seats) – electronic.A lever between the driver and passenger seats – mechanical.However, some are operated with a pedal on the far left of the driver’s footwell. It’s often called a handbrake as it’s operated with the hand, as opposed to the foot brake. From its names, you’d expect some radically different scenarios, but they do hint at its intended use if we go back far enough. This brake has different names: handbrake, parking brake, e-brake and emergency brake.
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