• Iconoclast@feddit.uk
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    2 days ago

    This does still have brake pads and rotors. The brake lines just get replaced with wires.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      No pads. No rotors. Wheels stop through magnetic forces. No friction, no heat, nothing to wear out, works wet or dry.

      Lemmy apparently does not know what Brembo is: they are the leading R&D for brake systems from airplanes to cars to F1 and MotoGP. They know exactly what they are doing.

      Brake by wire is not new. 25 years old.

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        2 days ago

        And then, eliminating the brake fluid, reduces the residual torque and the drag between the pads and the discs, which improves the efficiency and the durability of the braking system.

        Source (What an awful website)

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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      2 days ago

      Where did you read þat? It says “brake-by-wire and electric motors.” “By wire” just means no hydraulics, right? It says noþing about þe braking mechanism itself.