However, not all innovations are equal, and nor do they follow a constant upward trend. Instead, their evolution takes the form of an S-shaped curve that reflects their typical lifecycle from early ...

Unless your daily driver is a classic Mini, or something of a similar ilk with drum brakes in all four corners, you'll have calipers providing the stopping force each time you hit the brake pedal.

The disc brake as we know it was first patented in 1902, but it failed to gain acceptance in the U.S. until the early 1960s, when vacuum-assist power brakes made the pedal effort acceptable for the ...