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2. Air brake (road vehicle) - Wikipedia

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   Truck air-actuated disc brake. An air brake or, more formally, a compressed-air-brake system, is a type of friction brake for vehicles in which compressed air pressing on a piston is used to both release the parking/emergency brakes in order to move the vehicle, and also to apply pressure to the brake pads or brake shoes to slow and stop the vehicle.

3. S-cam - Wikipedia

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   The S-cam is generally used in heavy trucking applications or commercial vehicles where an air supply is readily available from the vehicle. It is normally powered by air, but hydraulic power can be used too. The S-cam foundation brake is being used in over 85% of vehicles in the U.S. that run with air brakes. [1]

4. Talk:Air brake (road vehicle) - Wikipedia

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   The term "air brakes" can be applied to both the truck brake technology, and the wing flaps found on some cars, but they really should be in separate articles, as they're almost entirely unrelated. Rather than including that section here, just because this article is about road vehicles, I'd suggest moving it into the aircraft section, with the ...

5. GM recalling more than 21,000 electric SUVs over brake issues

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   GM plans to fix the issue with an over-the-air update or by a dealer, free of charge, NHTSA added. The NHTSA had opened an preliminary review of over 3,000 Cadillac Lyriq electric vehicles due to ...

6. Chrysler recalls over 200k Jeep, Dodge vehicles for antilock ...

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   The recall pertains to 2018-2019 Jeep Grand Cherokee and 2018-2019 Dodge Durango vehicles. If the antilock brake system malfunctions, brake lights may illuminate incorrectly, and the antilock ...

7. Westinghouse Air Brake Company - Wikipedia

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   Westinghouse Air Brake Company's Rotair Valve [18] The first form of the air brake consisted of an air pump, a main reservoir (pressure vessel), and an engineer's valve on the locomotive, and of a train pipe and brake cylinder on each car. One problem with this first form of the air brake was that braking was applied to the first cars in a ...

8. Air brake - Wikipedia

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   Air brake (aeronautics), a type of flight control system used on aircraft to reduce speed; On ground vehicles, (more formally, specified as) compressed-air-actuated braking systems: Air brake (road vehicle), friction-mediated type of brake used on large road vehicles in place of hydraulic brakes; Railway air brake (used on both locomotives, and ...

9. U.S. agency confirms air bag safety probe into 30 million ...

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   WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. auto safety investigators said on Tuesday they have opened a probe into 30 million vehicles built by nearly two dozen automakers that have potentially defective Takata ...