With the Electronic Wedge Brake (EWB), which electronics and mechatronics developer Siemens VDO unveiled at last fall's Frankfurt auto show, it is now possible to realize a 12V brake-by-wire system.

Brake-by-wire technology debuted with the 2001 Mercedes-Benz SL, and the technology has not exactly covered itself in glory during the intervening years. Parking at the lunch stop during the media ...

Few drivers think about how they use their brake pedal to stop a vehicle — despite doing so more than a million times a year on average, according to national highway traffic safety officials. That is ...