You can almost always pop the cable (if you have to) and hit the rotor with a hammer, or use a puller.

If that doesn't work you hit it with a hammer from the other side until the parking brake shoes pop out of the pins and come off with the rotor.

Most people doing the right thing use a torque limiter to "gun" the wheel on and then set final torque with the tires just touching the ground (for friction) which is totally adequate.

The thing people might forget is to clear the corrosion off of the wheel and hub which can be a problem if it breaks away as you drive.

Thats the same case with all brakes in use more or less. Also modern brakes have two hydraulic systems, in the case that one of the loops (front or rear) breaks there should be sufficient pressure to apply the brakes still.

Sometimes its front/rear and sometimes it is diagonal, but it should still do the emergency trick.

Regular parking/emergency brakes use a cable instead of hydraulics.

They also don't really stop a moving car, its a parking brake.

Just wanted to add, a EPB used for emergency stop in his scenario is just using the regular stopping brakes, its not an emergency brake either.

"They also don't really stop a moving car, it's a parking brake."

This is false. Have you ever tried it? I can say from experience they will stop a moving car.

I have, they're tiny shoes and it'll lock up your rear wheels at best.

I would suggest that anybody reading NOT try this unless you have a quite large and empty lot with no public access. Pay close attention, they are not called Emergency Brakes, they are called Parking Brakes.

The stated purpose of these brakes are to ensure your car wont roll away while parked. Anybody with a manual transmission knows the ritual of shifting into 1 or Reverse and turning their wheels toward the curb while parked even while the parking brake is engaged.

They won't serve you in an emergency. Here's Mitch Hedberg on "Emergency brake": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMKV1B0vuI8

It will if maintained properly. If you don't use it often it becomes loose and won't hold.

In my part of Europe it's the main issue for technical inspections, as most people drive automatic and we don't have hills, so we just put it in P when we park. The handbrake rarely gets used.

At the time hacker meant informal programmer, among other things. “I’m hacking on my book review website” “I’m hacking on a desktop filesharing app.” Those hackers sometimes got a nice swing at it and this place has indeed always been a finance-friendly venue for these nerds to commingle.

It’s 2025 and things move along. People still post their file sharing tools here, but yeah I agree that it does hit different now.

Very related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars

Its almost certainly cocaine

I feel like we could do better, quite easily. People are very gung-ho (jing-go?) on this and it seems clear to me that we can use our significant technological advantages and investigatory prowess to target these bad actors just like any other day at the office.

This is quite the departure and it is quite troubling to me. The ESA launch site is down there iirc, seems like we have natural allies who would join a push, but instead we sent a carrier group.

The chilling effect of the executive. The current admin leverages government agencies against the corporation who will report on this if not to their liking.

And more!

The preferred response is to downvote and move on.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

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