It started raining while I was on the road to my house, and my rear brake stopped working.

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Muddy water dripped from my hair into my eyebrows, lashes, and eyes, as I knelt to unscrew the lever that activated the rear brake.

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"Lewis suffered a loss of rear brake pressure, the front brakes enabled him to slow the car but he couldn't avoid the barrier, " said Mercedes on Twitter.

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He crossed China from north to south in 2006, at 72 with just three brake-block changes, one jammed rear-brake cable and a change of tape on the handlebars.

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The system allows a 1.6kWh lithium-ion battery pack, mounted behind the seats for weight distribution reasons, to be charged through a rear axle electro-hydraulic brake energy regeneration system.

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Commenting on the ANA flight, a spokesman at Yamaguchi Ube airport in western Japan said the flight was cancelled because brake parts from the rear left undercarriage needed to be replaced.

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Ram's heavy duty 2500 and 3500 models come with a rear-facing camera built into the center-mounted brake light behind the cab that can beam images of a trailer or the cargo in the bed into the truck's dashboard screen.

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Both cars can be equipped with optional torque vectoring, a brake-based system built to augment the mechanically locking rear differential and help put power to the ground.

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