** Reply to message from Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 
09:25:10 -0700

> I don't know why people call it an emergency brake.  You never use it in
> an emergency unless you want to flip around backwards.
> 
> It's a parking brake, no?

it is a mechanical braking system and probably gets its name from when 
hydraulics
were not so reliable. It sometimes gets used as a backup to the xmission locking
mechanism( labled P for Park ) and gets called a parking brake.

my $.02

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