It's a convenience whose time has come. Historically, contractors who owned multiple-vehicle fleets pulling electric brake trailers were required to wire each vehicle separately for towing a trailer. ...

Good enough that you'd be comfortable letting it control the brakes on your train? No, obviously. But scientists at Saarland University in Germany have developed a system that does away with those ...

Computer scientists at Germany's Saarland University have worked long and hard to rid your bike of that pesky one foot of brake cable which used to curve, short and graceful, down to the front wheel.