If your car's brake lights stay on even when the engine is off, the brake light switch -- a small, innocuous electrical part you'd only see once something goes wrong with it -- is likely the culprit.

If you ever take your bike out and share the road with large automobiles, you know that sometimes it can get a little hairy. As a biker, you will stand no chance in a collision with a vehicle.

Older vehicles traditionally relied on handbrake as an emergency measure, but this feature has been replaced by an electronic parking brake in newer rides. Why?

Nissan is recalling more than 267,000 Pathfinder SUVs due to concerns that wear to the brake light switch relay can cause the brake lights to remain on, even when the brakes are not being used. The ...

GM has issued a service bulletin for certain units of the Cadillac Escalade due to a problem related to the brake control switch. The problem: affected vehicles equipped with the Integrated Trailer ...

General Motors is recalling thousands of vehicles because of an electrical issue that could potentially cause a fire. The recall was announced in a memo on Wednesday, June 25, and impacts more than 62 ...

The automatic transmission in a typical car or truck handles multiple driving modes, like D for Drive, R for Reverse, or N for Neutral. The system also includes a parking mechanism, often marked P, ...

While it's easy to see what the headlights at the front of our cars do, the same isn't necessarily true for lights at the rear. But we're not talking about brake lights. Put simply, tail lights, which ...